My blocks are as nagging as I am.
Bought four books today:
The Autograph Man – Zadie Smith
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Now lets see how long would it take me to finish reading all of them… [...]
All the other blocks are a result of extreme amounts of that activity and the eventual saturation. Mine is quite the opposite. I haven’t read for a while. (My last one was the half-read Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra.) Neither have I visited any bookstores in the last couple of months. So [...]
Bought two books yesterday Collected Short Stories Vol 4 by W. Somerset Maugham & Freakonomics. Wanted to buy more but stopped myself. My current collection isn’t that big, but neither is it small enough for me to take it back to India. Giving these books away also is not an option for me… I’m [...]
Unexpected company. The intervension made an almost stranger can be so soothing. God’s way of sending his angels. Talked and got to know more about him. At such ocassions do you actually realise that everyone is so alike, so human.
Did you say SALE?
Amit had told me that one of the branches of Magrudy’s was offering [...]