It was during May of this glorious summer here that we had Vandana and Bala, visit us at home. The former is Manjiree’s elder sister and the latter her devoted husband.
Bala and I share a passion for Indian authors and we exchanged some notes about recent books that we had read. Bala was planning to buy a new book by Ashwin Sanghi and was all praise for it. I was not very well at that point of time and was less than enthusiastic about the conversation and soon forgot all about it.
Thursday last week, I received a parcel containing this book. Bala, all the way from Kolkata sent this to me to keep a promise he had made to let me have the book after he had finished reading it.
I was reading another very interesting book when this was received but I decided to promote this ahead of the other books in the queue for reasons that I am unable to explain even to myself. Be that as it may, I started to read it on Saturday and as I write this on Monday at 9.30 pm, I have just finished reading it. Not reading it while other chores called was extremely difficult. It was that good and gripping.
I have made up my mind to read all his other books though I was not particularly impressed with his The Krishna Key.
Thank you Bala. I wish that I could get such surprises every day!
Thank You Ramana…. I do not know if you would like my next book:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26803913-googled-by-god
I am intrigued and have bought the kindle edition. I will not read it immediately though as I am plodding through a long backlog. Will let you know when I do read it eventually.
It’s fun to get surprises like that! 🙂
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You will see from his comment elsewhere on this post that he is planning to surprise me again!
I bet you’re a very fast reader–of Hindi AND English. 🙂
I am. Like most Indians, I am multilingual. I speak, read and write four and read and write Sanskrit as well. I can also fluently speak three other languages.
I have read all his books…not this one though….and have enjoyed all. Happy reading.
How did you like his The Rozabal Line? Should I buy it? The summary etc are not very inspiring.
a lovely review rummy. in more ways than one.
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Thank you.
I read quickly, like you, Ramana. There is a lot to be said for it! Remembering what I’ve read is another matter. But some do stand out, and I keep a small library of favorites in my home.
For me remembering the content is not a problem but remembering the titles to decide whether I have already read a book or not is. I inevitable have to go to description of the book to see if I have already read it before I purchase it.
I like reading as well, but of recent weeks when I needed more light reading, if the book started jumping all over and not getting on with what I thought it should – placed smartly back in the public library system…got 3 right now, that have only been glanced at – but hopefully 2 of them will get a solid “to the end” reading…
This particular vein of reading is to slow me down because of the onerous personal job I have undertaken to move out of one house and into a much smaller unit…
I already inadvertently today, have overdone it…so reading, browsing and napping is in order
I hope that you received your dose of reading, browsing and napping and are back on your feet and raring to go.