Books, books, books!!!
My book buying habits tend to vaguely disturb my mother sometimes, though in all honesty, my parents have always given me free reign to splurge to my heart's content in this particular respect. This year, I came back with 2 cartons of books from the hostel; this, considering the fact that I had taken none with me to college at the beginning of the year. One look, and Mom wanted to know when I got the time to do anything else.
So, I was in Delhi the last couple of days, and decided to stop over at this little rekri next to PVR Plaza. I had been interning near CP last summer, had checked the place out a couple of times and had been quite impressed at the collection of books. It was then a really pleasant surprise when the shopkeeper came up to me and conversationally asked why I hadn't visited for almost a year. I ended up buying some really nice stuff from him - Isherwood (more on that later), Nabokov's Dozen, Eugene O'Neill, Jeanette Winterson and a couple more. It never ceases to amaze me as to how often I find the nicest of books at these PVR roadside booksellers.
What is rather amusing though, is how everyone assumes that a teenage girl can read nothing but romance novels of the Mills and Boons variety. When I smile and shake my head, the logical progression is towards the Sheldons, Archers and Dan Browns. I do enjoy reading them once in a while, but honestly, would never spend money on them - pretty much the same way as i refuse to spend my own money on vegetarian food. I usually get lucky the third time round, though the whole thing has become some sort of regular courtship ritual!!
So, I was in Delhi the last couple of days, and decided to stop over at this little rekri next to PVR Plaza. I had been interning near CP last summer, had checked the place out a couple of times and had been quite impressed at the collection of books. It was then a really pleasant surprise when the shopkeeper came up to me and conversationally asked why I hadn't visited for almost a year. I ended up buying some really nice stuff from him - Isherwood (more on that later), Nabokov's Dozen, Eugene O'Neill, Jeanette Winterson and a couple more. It never ceases to amaze me as to how often I find the nicest of books at these PVR roadside booksellers.
What is rather amusing though, is how everyone assumes that a teenage girl can read nothing but romance novels of the Mills and Boons variety. When I smile and shake my head, the logical progression is towards the Sheldons, Archers and Dan Browns. I do enjoy reading them once in a while, but honestly, would never spend money on them - pretty much the same way as i refuse to spend my own money on vegetarian food. I usually get lucky the third time round, though the whole thing has become some sort of regular courtship ritual!!
posted by Ishita at 3:18 AM
3 Comments:
Okay,you give me a complex now, Ishita. I thought I knew quite a lot about books, but haven't even heard of the authors you mentioned :(
How do you come to know ALL the good authors around, or do you just experiment with books.
True. Even I wouldn't spend my money on Archers and Sheldons and Browns, though I do feel like reading them once in 6 months.
Guess I'll have to gear up and take my reading more seriously. I do tend to drift on to unimportant activities at times, leaving alone my precious books to fend for themselves.
You inspire me. I go read right now.
Take care
And if I go back home with a carton of books, my mom would surely have a heart attack. As it is, she keeps asking me if I would complete my engineering in one go, as I end up taking as many literature courses as possible each semester and kind of do better in them than my engg courses :D
Still, after a long wait, I've started building on my collection too. It'll take some time, but hopefully, it'll be a rare collection.
Interesting blog. Will come back.
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