Something Bookish

When I am old, I think, children of the neighbourhood will call me the crazy book lady. I cannot figure how and why I find myself in the possession of so many books all the time. By the time I get to being the crazy old book lady I do not know how exactly book-wealthy I will be; but I know for sure that the heir to my books - I will explicitly give them away in my will - will be one hell of a lucky person. At the moment I am in a very makeshift phase in my life where I am living in one small room in a hostel. Yet, you have to see to believe how many non-academic books I have stacked up here. The academic ones are no less though. I do not have a book shelf to fit them all in, so I have turned the window sill into a  make-do bookshelf.

Every new book I read adds value to my life. However, quite sadly, I have been very irregular with my reading lately. I've been so unjust to MacLean. It's taken me weeks and I am still not through his Puppet on a Chain. Princess Diana's biography by Sarah Bradford also beckons me. I wish I could have a job where all I had to do was to read, and watch movies, and sitcoms too.

It was my birthday last week, and thanks to my dear friends it rained books on me. I will, thus, get to my favourite task in sometime - signing my name, the date I got the book on and the place where I got it at, on the first page. This only brings my books closer to me. I have received more than half a dozen titles as presents. Makes it slightly easy for the one who is gifting. Not that I resent this. I would prefer a good book over a typically girly gift any day. I could live in a library for all it's worth. When I am at home, it is pretty much like that though. There is seriously no count of the number of books in my house. The trouble will arise when I it's time for me to move back. My parents, sister and I have our individual book collections. We have our own shelves, but now we find each other trying to sneak a book here and another there in various nooks and crannies on each other's shelves because we are so out of space. When I get  withhome a huge carton of books, it is a possibility that I may have to camp in the lobby just so that my books have a shelter above them. Exaggeration, of course! Everything said and done, there are two must-haves in life. Books, and friends who gift you books!

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Now here is one song that I cannot seem to get enough of. It is a beautiful blend of meaningful lyrics and soothing music (it is definitely 'inspired', but nevertheless). KK's melodious voice carries the song along very well. There is another rendition where Shreya Ghoshal get to sing a verse. I do not really like that one as much as KK's version. But good work.

Though I feel somewhere that 'technology' interferes too much with the final presentation of music these days. It refines the output to an artificial perfection. The music that we got until a few years back too used technology for enhancement, but somewhere a raw originality was retained, and it definitely added charm to the song.

Nothing else about the movie interests me, but Abhi Abhi from Jism 2 continues to play on loop in my room. Either my neighbours also like the track or my speakers aren't doing a good enough job of disturbing them at this time of the night.

 

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