Hi there, it's been a long Saturday for me; it's 2 am & I'm drafting this blog for every reader out there.
The other day, one of my friends asked me to recommend a good book, and trust me I felt anally retentive! It was as if, someone has asked my opinion for taking out my girl friend, such is intimacy when I'm engaged with a book. After some time I thought - "Was he asking me to recommend a good lover?" :P :D and that thought led me to doubt my being resident of this planet. :P A serious engagement with a really good book is never less than a passionate affair; it is the blend of mind & emotions. The aftermath of this adorable stuff leads one to distract from all else for the time it lasts. Alike other affairs this too leaves a void, an emptiness and possibly an ache of loneliness - after seperation. But the biggest perk of this loneliness is, it allows you calculate the balance (both gain & loss) of this relationship. Eventually an array of thoughts comes to the mind which we integrate into one single life-changing lesson (possibly) and move on with a better dividend. Yeah, getting out of the woods! ;)
When I'm reading - a beautiful constructed sentence or a superb thought always drives my mind & it pervades my soul too. Unintentionally, I keep the book down and savour the thought for a jiffy, as you do with a delicious dish, nurturing the flavour of it to deliciously slide down the throat, and then stay awhile with the aftertaste. It's basically a sovereign you fetch from the content. Believe me, if you're a lover of language, you'd read these enormously beautiful constructions again & again and fall in love with them!
A good book is a lover but not every lover will give you the same joy; likewise not every book can achieve this feats of pleasure, but many do and yes, these are the ones where the writer has dived dip into the process of writing as you in reading! I normally tend to carry my books wherever possible (yes I mean it) when I'm in the process of reading. I mean, I just can't let it go, even if I'm not getting time to read. I feel like I have made a secret promise to the book & which I can't keep it out my reach. That just - 'sheer presence' of it can make a lot of difference to my day. A book is always there in my bag (nobody knows it, nobody will ever), as I eat - it often watches me from atop of my desk, and as I sleep - it often nestles beside my pillow. Here, I must confess that I have often fantasized about an invention that allows you to read as you shower! Well.. hold on.. this is really getting weird now!
Inexplicably, if anyone opens the book where I bookmarked, I feel violated, almost as if someone has eavesdropped on a private conversation or may be as if someone is looking at you while making love. Jeez, people - you can't watch someone while he/she is having some intimate moments, learn it! :D I know, it's really bizarre, but it happens to me, may be because of marking sentences & putting my own words there in the margins as I read along! And my favourite thing, to learn new words from the content, indeed I'm a logophile. I don't know, when did I pick this habit of voracious reading? May be.. genes? Yes, they are playing at their bloody best. I might have picked my father's brain. But surely he's is not that crazy, as I'm. :D
At times, people around me persuade me for going out after a long day but I'm glad they couldn't so far, when I look forward to go my place & bury myself inside the volcano of knowledge. These books have also played a social quotient to me or a travel companion. I remember, once I was travelling to home, when I reached - I saw myself without a bag consisting my toothbrush, comb, & the other needy daily things. I forgot them because - I prioritised my books over the missed stuff & eventually I forgot to carry the same. After explaining this entire drama to my mother, she cheekily asked my father to take me to the psychiatrist. :D Funny mother, and of course she didn't understand my love for reading! To which in reply, I said thank god, I don't need too explain her further, otherwise it would have been a herculean task to labour my point, precisely an explanation more for a book than for a girl :D
When a good book ends, there is no possibility that I'll soon join by the new, no.. no way! Sometimes we just can't get over good things, let alone your love (here a book). :P There, at times I have to recheck the completion, "Did I really finish with it?" and I, then quickly glanced through the best moments spent with it; just like a turbo charged flashback :D These quick rereads also have the charisma which can engaged me for hours again. This reading habit has injected some serious fringe benefits to my account - reading makes me a dreamer. Yes, indeed it opens up the thinking tank all the time, more so. I think, every writer is good reader too! This reading plays ignition to pen down the emotions as well. I sorely miss it when I don't find time for the book. But the best part of it is - unlike human, it never demands or never complains, and that makes it a non-living legend!
These books have been taught - only to give and never ever ask to repay it. It is indeed a joy for a festive mind who loves to forget itself into the helm of superlative thoughts. An unadulterated romance which is as divine as any love saga could get! I'm going to leave you all with another little incident that has recently happened to me. After reading it, think for a moment and tell me was that a compliment for a reader, I believe it was!
On a fine evening, I was hanging out with my friends at JM road in Pune. Alike a bunch of happy hearts we were teasing, laughing too & having one of the better days of our lives. Gradually, as we were walking past the Mac D, there was a bookseller alongside the pavement as he usually puts his bookstall there. My being a bookworm, I couldn't resist to go by the books placed there (even if I'm not going to buy them). When I looked at the book seller, in response he smiled and asked, "Aaj koi book nhi lenaa hai kya sir ji?" (Sir, wouldn't you buy any book today?)
The other day, one of my friends asked me to recommend a good book, and trust me I felt anally retentive! It was as if, someone has asked my opinion for taking out my girl friend, such is intimacy when I'm engaged with a book. After some time I thought - "Was he asking me to recommend a good lover?" :P :D and that thought led me to doubt my being resident of this planet. :P A serious engagement with a really good book is never less than a passionate affair; it is the blend of mind & emotions. The aftermath of this adorable stuff leads one to distract from all else for the time it lasts. Alike other affairs this too leaves a void, an emptiness and possibly an ache of loneliness - after seperation. But the biggest perk of this loneliness is, it allows you calculate the balance (both gain & loss) of this relationship. Eventually an array of thoughts comes to the mind which we integrate into one single life-changing lesson (possibly) and move on with a better dividend. Yeah, getting out of the woods! ;)
When I'm reading - a beautiful constructed sentence or a superb thought always drives my mind & it pervades my soul too. Unintentionally, I keep the book down and savour the thought for a jiffy, as you do with a delicious dish, nurturing the flavour of it to deliciously slide down the throat, and then stay awhile with the aftertaste. It's basically a sovereign you fetch from the content. Believe me, if you're a lover of language, you'd read these enormously beautiful constructions again & again and fall in love with them!
A good book is a lover but not every lover will give you the same joy; likewise not every book can achieve this feats of pleasure, but many do and yes, these are the ones where the writer has dived dip into the process of writing as you in reading! I normally tend to carry my books wherever possible (yes I mean it) when I'm in the process of reading. I mean, I just can't let it go, even if I'm not getting time to read. I feel like I have made a secret promise to the book & which I can't keep it out my reach. That just - 'sheer presence' of it can make a lot of difference to my day. A book is always there in my bag (nobody knows it, nobody will ever), as I eat - it often watches me from atop of my desk, and as I sleep - it often nestles beside my pillow. Here, I must confess that I have often fantasized about an invention that allows you to read as you shower! Well.. hold on.. this is really getting weird now!
Inexplicably, if anyone opens the book where I bookmarked, I feel violated, almost as if someone has eavesdropped on a private conversation or may be as if someone is looking at you while making love. Jeez, people - you can't watch someone while he/she is having some intimate moments, learn it! :D I know, it's really bizarre, but it happens to me, may be because of marking sentences & putting my own words there in the margins as I read along! And my favourite thing, to learn new words from the content, indeed I'm a logophile. I don't know, when did I pick this habit of voracious reading? May be.. genes? Yes, they are playing at their bloody best. I might have picked my father's brain. But surely he's is not that crazy, as I'm. :D
At times, people around me persuade me for going out after a long day but I'm glad they couldn't so far, when I look forward to go my place & bury myself inside the volcano of knowledge. These books have also played a social quotient to me or a travel companion. I remember, once I was travelling to home, when I reached - I saw myself without a bag consisting my toothbrush, comb, & the other needy daily things. I forgot them because - I prioritised my books over the missed stuff & eventually I forgot to carry the same. After explaining this entire drama to my mother, she cheekily asked my father to take me to the psychiatrist. :D Funny mother, and of course she didn't understand my love for reading! To which in reply, I said thank god, I don't need too explain her further, otherwise it would have been a herculean task to labour my point, precisely an explanation more for a book than for a girl :D
When a good book ends, there is no possibility that I'll soon join by the new, no.. no way! Sometimes we just can't get over good things, let alone your love (here a book). :P There, at times I have to recheck the completion, "Did I really finish with it?" and I, then quickly glanced through the best moments spent with it; just like a turbo charged flashback :D These quick rereads also have the charisma which can engaged me for hours again. This reading habit has injected some serious fringe benefits to my account - reading makes me a dreamer. Yes, indeed it opens up the thinking tank all the time, more so. I think, every writer is good reader too! This reading plays ignition to pen down the emotions as well. I sorely miss it when I don't find time for the book. But the best part of it is - unlike human, it never demands or never complains, and that makes it a non-living legend!
These books have been taught - only to give and never ever ask to repay it. It is indeed a joy for a festive mind who loves to forget itself into the helm of superlative thoughts. An unadulterated romance which is as divine as any love saga could get! I'm going to leave you all with another little incident that has recently happened to me. After reading it, think for a moment and tell me was that a compliment for a reader, I believe it was!
On a fine evening, I was hanging out with my friends at JM road in Pune. Alike a bunch of happy hearts we were teasing, laughing too & having one of the better days of our lives. Gradually, as we were walking past the Mac D, there was a bookseller alongside the pavement as he usually puts his bookstall there. My being a bookworm, I couldn't resist to go by the books placed there (even if I'm not going to buy them). When I looked at the book seller, in response he smiled and asked, "Aaj koi book nhi lenaa hai kya sir ji?" (Sir, wouldn't you buy any book today?)
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