[Blue_Phoenix]

The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacob

[Blue_Phoenix]

The Last Week by Marcus Borg

[ABCDGIRL]

The Amityville Horrors

A Night to Remember

[Pushpa]

'Her Stories' - short stories by twentieth century Bengali women writers - translated by Sanjukta Dasgupta. Interesting study of twentieth century Bengali women's / feminist writing. Some of the tranlsation leaves something to be desired though.

'Jemima J.' - by Jane Green - light-hearted, entertaining, essentially frivolous chick-lit.

'Anil's Ghost' - Michael Ondaatje - not started yet but I'm looking forward to it.

[iSHi]

Snow Flower and the Secet Fan- Lisa See


Very Interesting. I like.

[moonlightrose]

Originally Posted by ABCDGIRL

You can be the happiest woman in the world
Dont be Sad
The biography of Malcolm X
Bulugh-al Maram
Great Women in Islam

The chocolate chip cookie monster

yup reading all at once

is this the one? Don't Be Sad (Revised 2nd Edition) Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni

its one of my favorite books

highly recommended!

[shadha]

and




shadha-

[Bluestar]

Bush In Babylon, Tariq Ali

fancied some non fiction

[the_only_one]

bunch of school books, and ive start reading 'Lost History' by Michael Hamiltion Morgan.

[afrakabob]

Midnight's Children -Salman Rushdie

yes, let the indignant fingers commence their wagging

[Bluestar]

let us know what it's about after you've read it, if you can? I've wanted to read it for a while.

[afrakabob]

Originally Posted by Bluestar

let us know what it's about after you've read it, if you can? I've wanted to read it for a while.

i'm actually almost done. i've got about 60 pages left out of 500+... the man is verbose as hell. the story is a quirky one (rushdie's genre is magic realism, so everything is a bit farfetched) it's about the life of a man who was born on the stroke of midnight on the day of india's independence. everything that happens to him reflects things that happen in india's history.

the premise is a bit wack, but the style in which the story's written is unlike anything i've ever read. it's very engaging, although he tells the story in stream-of-consciousness, and rambles a lot. normally i would give up sooner or later, but i really want to find out what happens.

also, the author is brilliant. the book is very written in a very tongue-in-cheek manner. i read it and realize that due to my own lack of historical knowledge, i miss a huge portion of the allusions he makes. if i knew more about indian history, i might be even more enthralled.

[MoonStar]

I finished Climbing the Mango Tree by Madhur Jaffrey, I really liked it. It's a memoir of her childhood in pre/post partition India in Delhi, and a lot of it sounded like what my mother's childhood was like (who also grew up in Delhi a few years later) so it was interesting. And a lot of the dishes she mentions are familiar too. Her family had adopted both British and muslim customs so that was interesting. The way she referred to the women in her family as 'the short women' seemed a bit condescending though. It seemed like her westernized and better looking father's family was cooler in her eyes while the various women they married were from more traditional families and apparently shorter and not as glamorous, even though both were from Old Delhi and not from say, a village.

[Jamroll]

Originally Posted by vanillawafer

What book is good on the life story of Muhammad (saw)?

There are a number of good biographies on the Prophet Muhammad (saw).

The Sealed Nectar by Safi ur-Rahman is a good one. It goes into a lot of detail into certain areas especially the battles. (I have this on my shelf in hardback, but you might be able to find this one online in full actually)

My personal favourite is Muhammad: His Life based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings. Martin Lings work is really well researched, and he brings a lot of referencing from studies of Judaism and Christianity into it. The copy I have is in paperback.

There's also a relatively new one by Tariq Ramadan called The Messenger: The Meanings of the Life of Muhammad which is written from a slightly different angle, trying to find the meanings and lessons for us, in the events that took place, and the words spoken and actions performed by the Prophet during his lifetime. I read this recently, and it's available in hardback.

[Blue_Phoenix]

The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman