30-Day Book Challenge: Day 24 & 25

Another Sunday, another combined blog post.

BOOK THAT CONTAINS MY FAVOURITE SCENE
This wasn't easy... far too many scenes, right from Cinderella to The God of Small Things popped up before my eyes. It took long and hard thinking, but when the scene, it was right there before my eyes.

I love this book (who doesn't) and while every chapter in the book is a little masterpiece, one of my favourite scenes is the one towards the end, when Holden takes his little sister Phoebe to the park. She wants to ride the carousel and he buys her a ticket and puts her on it. She rides on, carefree and happy, just as he realises he doesn't want to be a catcher in the rye. And in that moment, he finds happiness, in the simplest way possible. I think I cried when I read that.
The lines that got me - "I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth. I don't know why. It was just that she looked so damn nice, the way she kept going around and around, in her blue coat and all. God, I wish you could've been there." 


The Catcher in the Rye
Written by JD Salinger
Price Rs. 335 (approx) 


FAVOURITE BOOK I READ IN SCHOOL
This was one of the easiest questions I have ever had to answer. Even as I read the topic, I knew what my answer would be.

It was dark and mysterious and an absolute dazzler of a book. I was hooked to Joseph Conrad's novella from the minute protagonist Marlow began his story. Or perhaps it was in the way, the cities were described, from London to the heart of Africa, cold and grey and steeped in history and conflict. As the story of one man's journey to find another in the deepest part of the Dark Continent unfolded, the novel became a study of people and ideas as well as colonialism. Few books have intrigued me more than that one, and I always found something new each time I read the book. Africa never seemed more enigmatic or alluring.

Heart of Darkness
Written by Joseph Conrad
Price Rs. 68 onwards