Dear Reader,
As of 2011 I, Nida Bhatti ardent book reader and well known bookaholic, have set myself the challenge to read at least 70 in this year (which is actually about 20 more than I can usually manage in a year). But the difference this year will be that for each book that I complete I will receive £2 or £3. All the money that I collect by the end of the year will be going to Save the Children organisation and Inshallah provide books and/or education for the millions of children around the world who are out of school due to conflict in their country or region.
So far this year I've read 17 books already but I have yet to obtain donations for the month of February. Leave a comment to let me know if you want to help out or donate and I'll get back to you with more info. I've set up a page for the 2011 Reading Challenge in the side bar soon. Updates on money raised and books read can be found there. ---->
May Allah (SWT) be pleased with this good deed, may He help me achieve my goal and may he also be pleased with all those who donate, help and support me. Ameen :)
In other news, the grass is greener. The buds of blossoms are blistering the trees, and the yellow mouths of daffodils wave to me as I walk by. Yes, it's Spring again. Which means it's time for another reading list:
- Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- Forever
by Maggie Stiefvater
- Sisters Red
by Jackson Pearce
- Sweetly by Jackson Pearce
- Adam Bede
by George Eliot
- Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli
- From my sister's lips
by Na'ima Robert
- Green Deen
by Ibrahim Abdul-Matin
- The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
by Dr. Oliver Sacks
- How I Killed Pluto and Why it Had it Coming by Mike Brown
And I shall now leave you with the picture of my current bed-side book stack:
Aside: the Selected Poems of Lord Alfred Tennyson (LAT) are still on that shelf because, every once in a while, I like to pick up the book read a poem or two. I'm afraid that if I put it with the rest of the classics it might become forgotten. It's not that Lord Alfred Tennyson's work is particularly forgetful or that it's over-shadowed by more popular classics, the blame in fact lies entirely with myself. I'm, unfortunately, not only a very busy person but also a very forgetful one. And so if things aren't actually staring me in the face, I have a tendency to forget about them, :( sad but true.
Now I really should end this post before I reveal any more of my fatal flaws.
Nida
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