“Book”ings Now Open

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Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey - Booker Winner 1988

Last Orders by Graham Swift - Booker Winner 1996

Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner - Booker Winner 1984

The Ghost Road by Pat Barker - Booker Winner 1995

Rites of Passage by William Golding - Booker Winner 1980

I bought the first two of the above courtesy a book coupon for Premier Book Shop and the remaining from Blossom (see my next blog in the Bangalore series for more info on these two).

Considering Sweety’s target for us for this year to read as many books as possible, I can say that atleast one half of the task is well on its way – the one of having enough stuff to read. Now the task is to read them! I am currently reading The Road Less Travelled by Scott Peck, a book that created a flutter in the cash registers a few years ago. I had kept away from it for precisely that reason. However a comment I made recently on someone’s blog triggered a desire to go and check the book out. So far, the book’s been good to read. There’s no blinding insight in the book. However it does a good job of articulating the process of how one’s character is influenced by parenting, the company one keeps, etc. It also talks about how one’s work ethic can be changed by some simple resolutions, to bring greater satisfaction to one’s life.

For someone who comes from a culture where psychologists do not abound and where seeing the therapist is not exactly like seeing the doctor, this is unusual. Especially some of the advice seems simplistic or obvious for people who have read some of the teachings of the Gita. But then like most good things in our country, the Gita itself is vastly unknown to our people.

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So much for the good stuff.