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I'm a self-absorbed Bengali-Torontonian; Fish comes to me raw, wrappend in seaweed, not cooked in curry; I love watching thunderstorms and rain; Sad endings make more sense to me than happy ones; I hate empty walls.
In the News
Craving of the week- Dark Chocolate
Reading List- Midnight's Children
Movie review(out of 5)- 127 hours- *****
Buried- ****
That Girl in Yellow Boots- **
Love of the week- Seeing James Franco
Aim for the weekend- Watch 'Going Postal' The Movie
I'm going to like listing this, more like an updated version of the one I kept in my diary from when I was 11 !
Among the classics
* Pride and Prejudice, Persuation, Emma - Jane Austen
* Room with a View, Passage to India- E.M. Forster
* The Prophet- Kahlil Gibran
* The Idiot- Fyodor Dostrovevsky
* Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert
* Lord of the Rings
* Anna Karenin
* To Kill a Mocking Bird
* A Steetcar Named Desire- Tennessee Williams
* Daddy Long Legs- Jean Webster
* Among Shakespeare ones- Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear
* Little Mermaid- the sad version of Hans Christian Andersen, not the Disney one
* Arabian Nights- was there ever an author?
Among more recent Fiction
* Tamarind Mem- Anita Rao Badami
* God of Small things- Arundhati Roy
* Love Story & Oliver's Story- Erich Segal
* Bridget Jone's Diary (1&2)- Helen Fielding
* The Outsider- Albert Camus
* Life of Pi- Yann Martel
* If Tomorrow comes - Sidney Sheldon
* Harry Potter series
* Duke and I - Julia Quinn
* Atonement- Ian McEwan
* The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho
* Girl with a Pearl Earing- Tracy Chevalier
* Contact- Carl Segan
* Hichhickers Guide to the Galaxy series- Douglas Adams
* Discworld Series- Terry Pratchett
* Coma- Robin Cook
* Dune- Frank Herbert
* The Dark Half and The Shining- Stephen King
The following from my old list...that I can not remember what the story was about, but I had childishly put stars beside them so I must have really liked them
* The Pendragon virus- Cait London
* Just Killing Time- Derek Van Armen
* A Parcel of Patterns- Jill Patron Walsh
* Airport- Arthur Hailey
...............there tons more that I am sure I'm missing :~/
Oh ofcourse among the Bangla ones
* Kaalbela- Shomoresh Mojumdar
* Durbeen- Shirshendu Mukharjee
* Prothom Alo and Shei Shomoi- Sunil Gangapadhaya
* Pother Pachali- Bhibhutibhushan
* Na Honnota- Moitree Debi
* Chourongi- Shonkor
* Bou Tubani Phool- Joshimuddin
* Megh Bolechey Jabo Jabo, Daruchin-ir Deep, Rupali Deep, Shajghor, Shey or Nortoki, Debi, Dui Duari - Humayun Ahmed
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