The Great Strand Book Sale (contd)..... uldn't wait to get to the sale last week which is on till 5th. The whole place ( pacify Rohan my husband I got him four Asterix titles, his favourite comic book.
I myself got a motley collection of fiction and non fiction. "Sister of My Heart" by Chitra Divakaruni whose Mistress of Spices is being made into a movie starring Aishwarya Rai. Vir Sanghvi is one of my favourite journos whose articles I never miss in HT. He also writes extensively on food in a very interesting style. So I bought "Rude Food" which I have heard a lot about.

Urdu writer Ismat Chugtai's collection of short stories and Anita Nair's Ladies Coupe are the other two novels I got. I also bought Busybee's collection of writings (Behram Contractor) which used to appear in Afternoon.

All in all a very prductive day even though by the end of it my feet were paining madly from all the standing and jostling among the crowd. :) :)

The Great Strand Bookstore Annual Sale

Hey you people.... the annual Strand Book sale is here again in Mumbai uptil 5th Feb. Make sure you dont miss it. Minimum 40% off on every book. Am planning to check it out today evening.

Reading at Airports

Nowadays I always make sure to carry some reading material with me while on the plane but somehow it doesn't quite work out. Last week was travelling to Chennai so bought "Everyone Worth Knowing" by Lauren Weisberger who also wrote the famous bestseller The Devil Wears Prada.

But couldn't get beyond reading first chapter really. The book makes for easy interesting reading so far. After finishing with check in and catching a bite to eat at the Taj counter in Chennai airport spend some time looking around for a seat to sit. Then decided to go for the security check in and after that decided to drink some coffee. Then I did manage to get a seat to sit and fished out my book but couldnt concentrate what with listening to the announcements and in between getting up to do some window shopping at a jewellery shop.

Then just thought will check the gate no and found that you have to take the escalator to go to Gate no 4 for all Mumbai travellers on Jet. So rushed there and by the time I again got a seat to sit they made announcement for boarding. In the plane after take-off i again fished out the book and started reading when the man next to me started talking and was forced to make some polite conversation.

Turns out he works with Paramount Pictures and we got talking on the latest films including King Kong which is produced by them and distributed in India.

So there goes..... Somehow at airports and in the plane I am never able to relax and read like some do effortlessly.

Next time will be better....

Hi, Writing after a really loooooong time! Happy New Year to all you people out there, and also may you discover many more great books in the New Year.

As for me I have been discovering some old books. Finally got around to read one of the most famous bestsellers in recent times, The Da Vinci Code. Also read another novel-The Bonesetter's Daughter by a favourite author of mine Amy Tan. (Incidentally most of her books seem to be out of stock in bookstores in Mumbai.) Have been searching for The Joy Luck Club without any success for quite some time.

Also am reading a non fiction book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" yeah quite ancient but never really into such inspiratinal books but this has been advised to me by quite a few people. Its quite nice, written very simply with some key ideas on managing your finances. How I would also love to retire by 40 and "make money work for me and not work for money"....