Rainstorm and bingeing on books
1. Something to Declare (Essays on France and French Culture) by Julian Barnes
2. When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
3. Made in America by Bill Bryson
4. Deluxe Turntable Scrabble (the game, not a book!)
were bought from Amazon last night. Barnes now joins McEwan, Ishiguro, Fry and Bryson as the most popular authors on my bookshelf. I do have 4 books by Graham Greene, but they were bought mostly due to the discount at the time of purchase, rather than chosen.
But that was not the event of the day.
The rumblings of the rather curiously named cyclone - Nargis, hit Bangalore with unexpected viciousness last night. 5 electric poles were uprooted. 2 fell on a bus and a car in front of me while I was driving. The driver and passengers of a Sumo next to me panicked and ran out, willingly getting drenched. All this while I was driving next to them! Thankfully the power supply was out. Hopefully no one got hurt. Further down, there were several trees uprooted and leaves and branches flying freely in the rain and wind and landing occasionally, abruptly on my car.
Was lucky to get home mostly untouched. Thank you.
4. Deluxe Turntable Scrabble (the game, not a book!)
were bought from Amazon last night. Barnes now joins McEwan, Ishiguro, Fry and Bryson as the most popular authors on my bookshelf. I do have 4 books by Graham Greene, but they were bought mostly due to the discount at the time of purchase, rather than chosen.
But that was not the event of the day.
The rumblings of the rather curiously named cyclone - Nargis, hit Bangalore with unexpected viciousness last night. 5 electric poles were uprooted. 2 fell on a bus and a car in front of me while I was driving. The driver and passengers of a Sumo next to me panicked and ran out, willingly getting drenched. All this while I was driving next to them! Thankfully the power supply was out. Hopefully no one got hurt. Further down, there were several trees uprooted and leaves and branches flying freely in the rain and wind and landing occasionally, abruptly on my car.
Was lucky to get home mostly untouched. Thank you.
posted by D at
4/29/2008 08:13:00 PM
2 Comments:
Absolutely brilliant blog. What amazing books you seem to have read - Dubliners? Wow. And there is something about reading and running, isn't there?
Thanks TT.
There is a lot to reading and running. Both are means to a wholesome life :)
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