~~Books that I read in 2014~~

So, 2014 has not been a year of reading for me as 2013 was!!

 

Why? Multiple reasons!

 

Travel Time:

I normally read during the travel to & from office as that’s the only time that I can manage to allocate to this wonderful hobby of mine! But this year, I spent 75% of my travel time checking FB and replying to Whatsapp messages! Sigh, not very proud of it!

 

Weekends:

Reading on Weekends & Working Moms just don’t go together! Take my word for it! By the time I realize its a weekend, its already Monday morning!

 

Weekdays:

Apart from travelling & working, weekdays are spent trying to squeeze in dinner time with the family amidst the daily 1 – 2 hour program status calls @ onshore hours (OnShore/Offshore calls are not new to me, but well, every known aspect in life needs to be re-defined after you have had a sweet little baby)!!! I have attended so many calls during onshore hours (offshore nights) this year that when, once in a blue moon, I don’t have a call to attend & I relax on the sofa to spend some extra time with my daughter, she takes her sweet revenge by just not believing in me.. At the exact designated time, she pushes me into an empty bedroom, hands me the phone and points me to the laptop, smiles sweetly and locks the bedroom door from outside so I can have a peaceful imaginary status call….I am left all alone in a dark bed room to feel the working mom guilt all over again!! With nothing else to do & no inclination to read after the fresh guilt trip, I switch on my laptop to double check if I have, by any chance, missed some important call

2014 Book reading challenge:

 

I was participating in this challenge hosted by a fellow blooger & though I chose my books for the challenge pretty soon, I was not convinced with my selections and this led me into book-hunting & book-purchasing spree like never before Instead of book-reading, I spent most of my time on research and purchasing them

 

All reasons stated and done, I am still proud to have completed atleast 20 books this year!! Believe me, it was not at all easy with so many things going on!!

 

Okay.. now for the list!

Book	Author	Rating
Polka Dots, Pony Tails and Purple Pouts	Amrita Anand Nayak	2/5
Chanakya’s Chant	Ashwin Sanghi	3/5
The Gift	Cecelia Ahern	3/5
Memory Maker	Cecelia Ahern	3/5
The Girl in the Mirror	Cecelia Ahern	3/5
The Half Girlfriend	Chetan Bhagat	2/5
Wuthering heights	Emily Bronte	3/5
The difficulty of being good	Gurucharan Das	3/5
Northanger Abbey	Jane Austen	3/5
Bhima – Lone Warrior	MT Vasudevan, Nair	4/5
Adultery	Paulo Coelho	2/5
The one you cannot have	Preeti shenoy	2/5
Like it happened yesterday	Ravinder singh	2/5
Who will cry when you die	Robin Sharma	2/5
Gently falls the bakula	Sudha Murthy	3/5
The day I Stopped drinking Milk	Sudha Murthy	4/5
The Old Man & his GOD	Sudha Murthy	4/5
Delhi OMG	Vinod Nair	2/5
Collected Stories	Rabindranath Tagore	4/5
The post master	Rabindranath Tagore	4/5

 

P.S:- Books are not listed in the order they were read, but are grouped by the author!

P.S.S:- Books that I particularly liked and would recommend are in bold