Thursday, June 2, 2011

Theme Thursday - Colours


This is a new meme hosted by kavyen at Reading between Pages.. “Theme Thursdays” will be open from one Thursday to the next and anyone can post it. The rules are simple:

* A theme will be posted each week (on Thursdays)
* Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
* Post it and don’t forget to mention the author and the title of the book
* It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
* Since we may take a few days to finish a book, this event is open for one whole week

This will give us a wonderful opportunity to explore and understand different writing styles and descriptive approaches adopted by authors.

This week's theme is - Colours


"And then, last, what should've been first, I saw how beautiful they were: The women wrapped in crimson, blue and gold; the women walking barefoot through the tangled shabbiness of the slum with patient ethereal grace; the white-toothed, almond-eyed handsomeness of the men; and the affectionate camaraderie of the fine-limbed children......"





p 8 - Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.

9 comments:

  1. Ooooh... that's a good one. Color is one of those things that brings characters alive.

    Here's mine:

    http://bookbelle0819.blogspot.com/2011/06/theme-thursday.html

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  2. Sounds very beautiful.
    Here's mine:

    http://www.playinglibrarian.com/2011/06/theme-thursday-7-colors.html

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  3. I agree that we can learn a lot about characters through the colors around them. Illustrated here in MY THURSDAY MEMES POST

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  4. Love it, this book is definitely on my TBR pile.

    Here's mine:
    http://carabosseslibrary.blogspot.com/2011/06/theme-thursday.html

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  5. Sheer beauty. This description is so lively and colorful !!!

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  6. What a lovely paragraph!

    Here's mine: http://simpleloveofreading.blogspot.com/2011/06/theme-thursday-14.html

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  7. I loved Shantaram - hope you're enjoying it! It's certainly a solid book to get through but an incredible story.
    On another note - have you read "Cleo" by Helen Brown? When I saw your profile pic and where you're from (NZ!) I thought of Cleo immediately!
    I read it earlier this year if you haven't already come across it:
    http://thebookgatherer.blogspot.com/2011/02/book-4-cleo.html

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  8. Thank you all for dropping by. I'm sorry but I can only comment on blogger blogs that have the popup comment box.

    Bookgatherer - I have read Cleo and pleased to see it's amking it's way into other parts of the world.

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