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۩ सर्व शकितमते परमात्मने श्री रामाय नमः۩
Recently I completed 21 years Of living on this earth.S0 after due research i got one tag related to it on sms book reviews.

20 Years Ago: (age 1)
I don't recall reading anything so young.

10 Years Ago: (age 11)
Lot of fairy tale books.Short story books.Had fun reading them again and again.

5 Years Ago: (age 16)
Loads of Agatha Christies,Sidney Sheldon and few Harry Potter books.Was a turning point in my reading life.

3 Years ago: (age 18)

More Agatha Christies, Sheldon's, macleans,arthur Hailey's, Jeffery Archers etc etc.Have read a lot many author's books.

Last Year: (age 20)
Lot of unknown books.Lot of mills&Boons and other romantic stuff.This was a genre i had not touched much so another experiment.

This Month: (age 24)
An Agatha Christie book sent as a gift from a friend and Blink.

3 Favorite Reading Locations:
My Bedroom,the front balcony of my house and the terrace

3 Reading habits:
Reading With TV on
A book mark never to be used again
Covering and cataloging self owned books

3 Things that distract me:
Telephone
Television
Family people

3 Characters I’d love to be:

Howard Roark
Hercule Poirot
Captain Mallory

3 Characters I despise:
none i can think of at the moment

3 Favorite Book Beverages:
Tea
Coffee
Squashes

3 Favorite bookmarks:
Tags from clothes

Old special bookmarks

A bookmark sent as a gift by a friend

3 Dead Writers I’d love to meet:
Agatha Christie

Sydney Sheldon

Ayn Rand

3 Alive Writers I’d love to meet:
L.K. Advani

Danielle Steel

Khushwant Singh

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Passed to whoever is reading it

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Jai SHri Ram!!!

Comments

Writer on Board said…
Hello, Tshar.Thank you. I'll take a look around.

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