it's easire to spend saturdays. there are the usual weekly house hold chores to attend to, then lunch at murugan idli shop in beasant nagar, the customary drive to the thiruvanmiyur beach, and finally settling down with a book before hitting the bed.
it's on every sunday i have a problem figuring what is the best way to spend the day. since morning today i had this strong urge to buy something for myself. two thing came to my mind: a digital printer or a Sony CD/FM player. I do not have a TV, DVD or a Music System right now, so you can understand. I had almost made up my mind on buying that CD player, but then i looked at the two laptops lying around, and then spending 6-7K somehow did not appeal me. but this 'something should be bought' stayed with me.
i drove aimlessly to thiruvanmiyur, beasant nagar, adyar, took a U turn from adyar to get back home, and then another U turn to drive towards nungambakkam.
at the end, i did what i like doing best - browsing book. and in doing so i broke my resolution of not buying a single book this year :-)
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
booker winner
aravind adiga wins the booker prize for his novel the white tiger. good to know that he has dedicated the novel to a city - delhi.
he was interviewed immediately after rceiving the prize and i liked what he said ...
'...it still is a fact that for most of the poor people in India, there only two ways to go up, which is through crime or through politics. which can be variant of crime...'
i plan to read his book next year - already have a backlog of 11 unread books :-(
he was interviewed immediately after rceiving the prize and i liked what he said ...
'...it still is a fact that for most of the poor people in India, there only two ways to go up, which is through crime or through politics. which can be variant of crime...'
i plan to read his book next year - already have a backlog of 11 unread books :-(
Sunday, September 16, 2007
On Chesil Beach
A fairly decent story by Ian McEwan. Story about the wedding night of Florence and Edward. How the couple is uncomfortable & shy, and how one incident changes the entire relationship! You need to read the book to know more, if interested :-)
I'd like to share the lines that changes the relationship.
...he went to speak, but she raised her hand. 'That I'm pretty hopeless, absolutely hopeless at sex. Not only am I no good at it, I don't seem to need it like other people, like you do. It just isn't something that's part of me. I don't like it, I don't like the thought of it. I have no idea why that is, but I think it isn't going to change. Not immediately. At least, I can't imagine it changing. And if I don't say this now, we'll always be struggling with it, and it's going to cause you a lot of unhappiness, and me too.'
I'd like to share the lines that changes the relationship.
...he went to speak, but she raised her hand. 'That I'm pretty hopeless, absolutely hopeless at sex. Not only am I no good at it, I don't seem to need it like other people, like you do. It just isn't something that's part of me. I don't like it, I don't like the thought of it. I have no idea why that is, but I think it isn't going to change. Not immediately. At least, I can't imagine it changing. And if I don't say this now, we'll always be struggling with it, and it's going to cause you a lot of unhappiness, and me too.'
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