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Day 2: A Book You’ve Read More Than Three Times

When one is a literature student, three is a rather small number to make a book special. Even an entirely unappetizing book — once it turns up on the syllabus — has to be gone through in class, for an internal test and for the end-semester exams, and there goes three. So instead, here goes book that I feel like I have always read, even though the copy currently in my possession was a gift from the Cheshire Cat and the Cyber Monkey about two years ago.

That would be the edition, although I’ve been through the story and sub-stories at different places and over years, beginning from regular children’s illustrated books and Disney movie editions to the original play and the novels and about five or six films. I’ve written at least two term papers on it, and referred to it in several more. A favourite that will never grow old. :)

Day 10: A Song That Makes You Fall Asleep

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I don’t know why this challenge asks for so many un-favourite songs, because Day 10 requires one to post A Song That Makes You Fall Asleep. There is a bit of ambiguity as far as what people have posted in answer to this (as I observed at the Facebook page of the challenge). Some people have interpreted it as the song they like falling asleep to, while others have listed the song they find most boring. As far as my knowledge of the language goes, the second usage would be correct. However, I don’t enjoy it one bit filling my blog up with songs I’d rather have nothing to do with. (Besides the tediousness of finding such songs. I’m rarely forced to listen to music I dislike, my zoning-out capacity is excellent, and if my sister didn’t remind me of the song I posted on Day 2, I could never have remembered that one either.)
On the other hand, I usually don’t sleep to music if I can help it, so it’s equally difficult to think of a song I like falling asleep to. So instead, here goes one of the few songs I have a history of singing incoherently just before I pass out.

An old favourite that sobriety doesn’t quite manage to spoil. Also a song that for some reason reminds me of high school (or more precisely, the time when I was enrolled at high school, since very little of it was spent at that actual institution). You’d rather not find out what the other songs in this list are, believe me.

Day 1: The Best Book You Read Last Year

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I am duly concerned about the judiciousness of filling two challenges at the same time, especially considering the regularity of my updates (and also considering that I have two exams still left to write), but this is the beginning of the 30 Day Book Challenge inspired by the Cheshire Cat.

FlowersForAlgernon — Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

2010 wasn’t a year I read too many books, unfortunately. There were some books I enjoyed a lot and wrote about extensively (elsewhere, of course). There were books read long ago that I re-read in a bid to recapture the essence of the days that seemed to be slipping through my fingers. I think about the year gone by and remember this book vividly, although at the time of reading I had written little about it. A book to go back to one of these days.

Day 9: A Song That You Can Dance To

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Dancing would not usually feature among my favourite activities. There are few anecdotes to go with this post, which is about a song that I’ve never actually danced to, but it makes me want to dance every time. :)

Not a great fan of either Shahid or Priyanka (though of Vishal Bharadwaj, certainly), but a film that I enjoyed a lot. Very well-done Bombay pulp, what can you say. <3

Day 8: A Song That You Know All The Words To

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It should be Day 7 but I’m skipping the entry because I can’t think of a very remarkable instance of A Song That Reminds You of a Certain Event. Some other day, then, while I put up the next entry.
Unfortunately, yet another song without a video. This is not the most well-known version of the song, but it is the one I memorized the lyrics from.

This is also the version I remember singing aloud with a bunch of people at G-Point, that terribly dirty and not-so-terribly secret hideout in campus that we never frequented after first year. I went to look at it again last summer and found the place turned entirely into a garbage dump. The friend who came along with me had not spent her UG1 there and could never have guessed the magic that has left that bit of desolate ruin.