My Ideal Bookshelf | December 2016

Hello Humans of the Globe !!

There exists on this Earth an art form we call 'writing'. Tis true that nowadays a lot of rubbish has made it into the category. However, there are still masterpieces that are being written by amazing authors and also, books that have already left their marks on this world that can satisfy a reader's hunger for good writing. 

There seems to be this great confusion that if something is popular, then it is supposedly equally valuable. Spefically, I am referring to people who are cutting corners and becoming 'writers' of popular books..pretty sure they have not even read classics !  It can be frustrating when these books become best sellers.. of course there are exceptions but very few.

Anyhow, I have compiled a list of writers whose work I have had the opportunity to read so far in my lifetime. They have left me in awe for their writing is so pure, creative and hold such literary value !  Some of these books simply touch you and you just cannot resist reading them over and over again. They are like watching your favourite movie time and again, knowing the whole thing by heart (Harry Potter readers might relate :p). 

There will be sequels to this particular posts as I believe I have yet to read many more master writer's work !

Disclaimer : the following list is no order of priority whatsoever and genres differ, as well as literary value of their work. I have added my favourite book next to the author as well

• Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
• Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist 
• Monica Hess - yet to find my ultimate fav. but highly recommend The Girl in the Blue  Coat
• Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet 
• Tenessee Williams - beautiful use of the English language !! Yet to find my favourite. 'The Glass Menagerie' is a great read. 
• Virginia Andrews - Any one of her books really.. she grabs you from the very first sentence
• J.K Rowling - Harry Potter Series undoubtedly
• Paula Hawkins - not necessarily any favourite but she writes damn well
• J.R.R Tolkien - The Hobbit ! 
• George Martin - an excrutiatingly detailed and painstakingly well written series - GAME OF THRONES ! 
• Jojo Moyes - The one plus one 
• Geoffrey Chaucer - Canterbury Tales (must admit that it is very hard to read)
• Harper Lee - Classic : To kill a Mockingbird
• Jane Austen - no favourite but appreciate the writing style ! 

Anyhow I gotta run people, penning off, 

BusLady ! 

Depressing December

Hello Humans of this planet !!

So I hate December. Worst month of the year. HATE HATE HATE ! Like, what's with all the festivities? It is just depressing !

With festivities come crowds of people and with people come hypocrisy ! I just cannot handle it.

And are people actually that happy? Is that humanly possibly? Or maybe I am the defective one..most probably !

Anyhow I just had to input these few words somewhere on the internet. I will be sulking till next year mid January..when everyone will be sad and broke !! :D That'll make me feel normal XD

Penning off, BusLady

Recent Read : the Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse | Thoughts

Hello globe dwellers :)

It's been a while since I posted a recent read.. not that i did not read any books but i have the bad habit of not finishing books :p I keep starting new books and then forget about them and then come back again much later and finish reading them :p Some I do not even finish because I truly believe if the beginning does not blow my mind then the end will probably be as rubbish.

So anyway, this one I finished in 3 - 4 sittings because it was that gripping ! It was really refreshing to read a story based in Amsterdam at the time of war. History is really something that makes me sleep unless my boyfriend is telling me about it or as i have just discovered is the backdrop of a fictional story. The fact that the author did not make the 'history' part up is mostly why this book will be added to my favourites. I got to learn about shitty situations in which Jews were living at the time, the power of Hitler and the cruelty that came with it, a lot about Amsterdam ( not that i was particularly interested but I would like to believe that  I have few additional useful neurons added to my brain now XD) and about the pain of losing someone.

I bought this book purely because of the cover. Yes, the title does remind you of the girl on the train but the story, plot and genre are completely different. Also, this one is wayyy more interesting as i genuinely could not guess what was going to happen next. I was very much oblivious to many details just as the main character. The story is narrated by the latter and you kind of picture everything from her perspective. Monica smartly leaves a lot of cues which eventually contribute to the climax and ending of the story. I honestly was unable to pick all of them - i was blinded by what Hanneke describes, sees and feels. She is grieving her dead boyfriend and that somehow transcribes in all her actions and decisions. At one point I did get irritated by her lack of judgement but then what can you expect from someone who is in so much pain? She feels betrayed by her best friend and her overly worried parents do not make her task any easier.

The whole plot basically unfolds around Hanneke's search for that Jewish girl in the blue coat. Sounds boring yet it is the complete opposite. Bravery is a recurrent theme and so is grief. Not the depressing kind of grief; the motivating kind of grief, the inspiring kind - the kind which makes you get up in the morning and do things for people purely so that they do not have to go through the pain of losing someone.

The fact that Hanneke and her circle have to be camouflaging almost all the time and the fact that they always have to have a cover story kind of got to me. I understand how it feels when you have to hide a major chunk of your existence to :
1. your family
2. ennemies
3. strangers who behave like they are family

It was exciting to see the characters rebelling silently against the Nazis. I almost wanted to be a character in the book :p Almost.

Monica writes with such fluidity, it is an absolute pleasure to read. I would say it was easy to read but that would take away from the literary value of the language. It was also fun to know the meaning of words like : 'onderduikers'. I say words but onderduiker is the only one i remember right now XD

 In a few words the books was: enriching, astonishing, inspiring and to the point  !

Definitely recommend it !

Penning off,
A hungover Buslady ( hung over that book ! )
xoxo

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil

Nope, nothing that you have not seen in a Karan Johar movie before (except for an extremely sensual beautiful aishwarya :p)

THOUGH..watching the movie does transport you in a dark emotional sad place.. you can really feel that Karan Johar wrote this film from a very personal space. Kudos to him for trying to put a piece of himself out there..

Ranbir Kapoor was amazing but it is nothing that he has not done before. It is just a combination of everything he has done to be honest. The role suits him well and he does justice to the character but I was kind of expecting more novelty. That did not happen .

Anushka was WOW ! Refreshing..new new new and nothing I have seen before. Loved her performance. She should get best actress popular. Popular because she has done more demanding roles in the past :p

Aishwarya or should i say Saba was beautiful and graceful.. very up front about her desires :p that makes you somewhat uncomfortable in the cinema but otherwise great job !

The storyline is not new.. but the dialogues and the expensive clothes..great music.. SRK's cameo..alia bhatt's cameo.. all comine into a nice film. Not a 300 crore film..it is not that ground breaking beautiful but does deserve a 100 crore..

Anyway.. penning off
BusLady

Greys Anatomy Season 13 Episode 8 ~ the feels

Meredith Grey : my favourite character of all time ! Probably because I can always relate to her...especially the unfriendly rude aspect of her character :p

Anyway last night's episode was so damn well directed ! And after a while I feel like Shonda Rhimes has reminded every GA fan about the essence of the show..

Also got me thinking... people see what they want to see. It does not matter what you tell them or how you tell them..it does not matter if you lie or you tell the truth..they will always still see what their mind wants them to see.. You know how first impression is always the last impression? I think the brain already associates a certain energy to a person the first time you encounter them..the first few words that pop in your mind are actually what you will keep associating that person to..

Okay so I kind of drifted off from what I wanted to write about which is greys anatomy :p

DEREK !!!! THEY CUT A CLIP FROM A PREVIOUS EPISODE AND ADEPTLY EDITED IT INTO THIS EPISODE. It was so smooth and unexpected... it's nothing we had not seen before but it is just the way that the whole 39 minutes build up to those 15 seconds ! I almost thought i was there with meredith watching it happen ! Her imagination, her pain and what goes on in her mind was so well portrayed.. those last few minutes were like poetry in motion ! LIterature, art, all the fancy schmancy words that are supposed to transport you in some other dimenson..it was just that ! I'm always scared that ABC will stop the show at any point..but then episodes like these remind me why it made it to season 13 in the first place ! Truly appreciated the episode ! Actually I needed that episode because the couple of episodes before were just rubbish from a more global (12 seasons of greys watched more than twice !) perspective !

I am all praise for the actors as well.. their loss portrayed in such an elegant fashion. Meredith's had mre impact but Owen's and Richard's were eqaully well shot and displayed.

I just cannot get over the episode ! Fascinating.

Shonda also reminded me never to judge the light episodes..it is the silence before the storm xp
#neverdoubtshonda

Go watch it globe dwellers ! if not for the plot or story..do it for the creativity and the beauty of it !

xoxo
BusLady

Bollywood movies these days | Befikre; Ae dil hai Mushkil; MS Dhoni

Hello Humans !

It is no secret that I indulge a lot in watching bollywood movies; mainly because it is so unreal :p

Scenes from bollywood movies almost never happen in fact.. At times these movies do give unrealistic expectations upon life, the exact very reason why i keep watching them <3

HOWEVER...

Movies these days seem to focus on sex.. where to do it, how to do it..what not.. it almost takes away the magic.. I hate it ! There is a kind of cinema for that..it is called porn ><

That Befikre trailer was horrible... Who would want to have private time in front of an audience? Let alone in Paris.. That movie should not have been shot in Paris.It is disgraceful to the place really ! And Vaani kapoor probably had too much time on her hands while waiting for Ranveer to shoot the film. God knows what she did to that pretty face !

Seemingly there is Wajah tum Ho which is worse than the hatestory series..

Why don't people make movies like K3G anymore? Or Partner? :(
Even my favourite Karan johar has glimpses of "how to have sex in public locations" in his movie ! I will watch the movie first day first show but I think indian directors are trying to over do it by adding so many "sex" scenes !

I used to love watching bollywood movies as a child.. most mauritians are accustomed to those movies since early childhood.. sadly though, I would not want my future non existant kids to watch that kind of stuff ! I feel heartbroken that they will not know the magic of Karan Johar in HD!

Thankfully movies like MS Dhoni  are still being made... that was a nice family film :) LOVED IT !



Hopefully this is just a phase..like the item song phase (at least that was fun ! )

Just had to let those thoughts out somewhere on the internet !
Penning off.. BusL xoxo

Going going gone

I have been absent from my blog for quite a while.. and in my last post I had promised I would try to write every single day..capturing moments and all that stuff.. but then a cascade of shitty things happened and it kept unfolding to this day..

Some days were better than others.. Yet.. It constantly feels like I see myself drowning. I thought I had someone to pull me up or at the very least pretend to do so.. guess it is just an illusion my brain conjured as a defence mechanism to make me feel better..or worse.. still cannot figure it out

Nothing tragic happened to me..not in the past couple of months anyway.. little things amount to a huge pile and there is only so much that one can carry around..

I have a heavy heart..always had.yet these days it feels like it will burst. I am to blame for it because I was stupid and imbecile to let the walls down, trust, believe and love wholeheartedly ! When a person has gone through a lot of pain, they become accustomed to it and very oblivious to others pain.. because they have suffered so much, it is impossible to believe that another person could suffer just as much in a different scenario.. I get very oblivious to people who I assume have perfect lives and get hurt by little things.. I resent every single person who has both loving and present parents, who is in a financially stable home and who has everything that their heart ever desired handed to them on a silver platter and yet they find something to be ungrateful about.. I never realised how it felt when someone was indifferent to your pain until I had it happen to me.. It simply emphasised my bitterness, added more bricks to my wall and weakened my spirits. 

Anyway.. for the past couple of months I have been feeling really down, shitty and depressed.. When I tried to talk about it to someone who i thought was special..I either never got the chance to or I was told off or I got reactions where they would roll their eyes to the ceiling.. So I just keep everything t myself. That is a dangerous things to do and comes at a very expensive price because that frustration comes out in other forms.. Anyway, it is very wrong to keep expectations or seemingly these days to want love or to miss the person you love.. What hurts more is not being able to say it without being bitter or holding grudges..

I am so far gone on my bitterness and resentment scale.. there is no going back..

There is light at the end of the tunnel..but they is none underground

Penning off...

It is a harsh world ! 

BusLAdy