One Book Meme

One book you’re currently reading: The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer

One book that changed your life: Princess by Jean P Sasson

One book you’d want on a deserted island: The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer

One book you’ve read more than once: Prisoner of Zenda by Anhtony Hope

One book you’ve never been able to finish: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

One book that made you laugh: The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer

One book that made you cry: Love Story by Erich Segal

One book you keep rereading: The Feluda series by Satyajit Ray

One book you’ve been meaning to read: The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini

One book you believe everyone should read: The Harry Potter series by J K Rowling!!!

Finally,

Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence:

"Mr Markam's reply was lost to Prudence, but she had seen the scowl on his face when he had first perceived her." From The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer.

Ziggy, The Seeker, while i was idle..., antiglam superstar!, shrutanne, Absolutely Normal Chaos, aanchal, Vesper Lynd, and Runjoo: you are tagged. Thank you. 

Meme #1: The GHM

Google Reader's blog search function helped me come across two posts with Georgette Heyer mentioned in them, and with a nice little meme.

Anyone who has ever fallen in love with her version of the GHM, I tag you. Write a post, it doesn't have to be very big, about that person – literary character, comic book hero, some guy in a movie, a random person you'll never meet – we’ll start a list that will probably never end.

The meme's interesting, but I honestly can't think of any one GHM who made me go weak at the knees. Books just never did that for me. I love Heyer's romances, yes, and I've been reading Mills & Boons for year now, but my issue with all the men in all these books has always been that they are just too... overbearing. And omniscient. Especially the Heyer-oes. Beaumaris, Alverstoke, Sylvester, Avon - you pick any of them, you'll see it. They just know everything. And I don't quite like that. By that logic though, my favourite Heyero would probably be Freddy Standen, who just stumbles through the whole book, finding unexpected depths to himself by sheer luck, and is just about the most endearing guy from any book. But know, he's not the GHM for me either.

But anyway, whoever you are, if you have or have had a GHM in your life, you are hereby tagged.

PS: After some more thought, I have realised that Jonathan Trager from Serendipity, followed very closely by Aditya Kashyap of Jab We Met, come extremely close to being my GHM. And Oliver Barrett IV from the only book which has ever made me cry (while every other movie makes me howl invariably) comes a very close third.

PS2: Dissertation due in just about a week; stress levels running high; no time whatsoever. You can therefore safely assume there will be frequent updates in the days to come.