There are advantages of having friends who share your
passion for reading and among other things you never run out of good
great things to read. Today one such friend Ritu shared an article on facebook (which
she was kind enough to tag me in). It is
“Which kind of book reader are you?” by the Atlantic Wire. The article goes on
to describe different types of readers and their reading habits. Are you the
one who will purchase books and then end up with a backlog or are the one who
has them only to display them? And so on... What about me, do you ask? (Well you are reading
this, and should you continue to read this entry I gather you are interested in
it.)
I have picked up books for various reasons. Quite a few of these
books are in my cupboard because Landmark (the book store) is exceedingly close
to my apartment. So every few days I find myself strolling in to the store
because I ran out of stationery supplies, or need something for work, or am
drawn to the large number of books there. If there is a sale I pick up some of the books
I have been wanting to read and since there’s a neat deal I stock them in my
cupboard. Sometimes it is because I visit the store out of boredom or habit,
and flipping through the books I find something that amuses or touches me. Then
of course there are the recommendations from friends.
This has lead to a huge backlog of reading for me. Books
that have been read for only a few pages before they were put on the table and
then inside the dark forbidding chambers of my cupboard because I got busy with
something, or found something else to read. Evil, I know. This is not just
fiction but books on engineering and science that I picked up because I enjoyed
reading about the subject, some management books that I refer when work gets
boring and philosophy for my desire to study more upon it.
Right now I am reading ‘Krishna Key’ because I got it for
review (yeay) from Blogadda.com. Since I am to post a review on it for receiving
said book, ‘Fifty shades darker’ has been put on hold along (because I enjoyed
reading ‘Fifty shades of Grey’, and wanted to continue the story). There is
also ‘The Toyota Way’ which I am reading to learn different approaches that I
can use at work. There is ‘God is not Great’ lying on the table as well which I
had picked for light reading (and mom got scandalized).
Then there are a select few unique books that have not been
completed for particular reasons. I received ‘The girl who kicked the hornet’s
nest’ as a gift from Ishaan Lalit, and I read the first three chapters before I
felt that there was too much a back story being referred to. Wikipedia
enlightened me with the fact that since it is book 3 of a trilogy I got the
feeling of missing the story. Although I thought the story would be revealed in
detailed flashbacks, I have kept it aside for after I finish its chronological
predecessors. There is ‘Love, Loss and Acceptance’ by Shail Di which I am
keeping aside for reading when I can do its verses justice. And finally there is Thermodynamics because I
can’t wrap my head around the change in heat of the room when an air
conditioner is turned on while a draft exists on the other side of the room.
The AC is on, it is cooler, I am thankful, please get lost. Maybe It has also
to do with the idea that I flunked the subject the first time I took it in
college.
And before signing off for this, I would like to tell you
about this little thing I have. I just love caressing and smelling books.
Sometimes I pick up books and ruffle through the pages and smell the air as the
pages flip by. The rustling noise and the sight of the pages go by is just so
wonderful. I don’t do it all my books, but one day the mood strikes to do so
and it always manages to make me sigh.
