This is one of those days I am working from home. Most days I invariably end up working all day long, sometime into the night. But there are some days when I either dont have much work or it is something which does not need immediate attention. I hate to admit that , even at my workplace, I work on the "rocket principle"(Engg grads are very well acquainted with this word :-))
which , well, speaking in the true sense does not make me a very "efficient" employee. Anyway, I am not here to discuss my workplace efficiency .
So, well , till about sometime back , I has my eyes fixed on my ;laptop screen and was feverishly typing (coding). Just then when i took a moment's break, my eyes just wandered to my bookshelf . I felt a pang of sandness looking at them . All of them screaming out loud to come and immerse oneself in their big, beautiful magical world . Every time I look at them , its like there is some unexplainable force that draws me to them like a magnet . A month ago or so , I had been to Blossom's bookhouse , one of my favorite bookshops in Bangalore in Church Street, I had picked a lot of books(I usually end up buying a whole bunch of them whenever I am there , whether I have time to read them in the immediate future or not ). I have had time to just read two of them over the last couple of months .
The rest of them are there waiting to be picked up : The list of these include
1.Lord Of The Flies - William Golding (Currently reading)
2.The Girl Who played With Fire -- Stieg Larson (I throughly enjoyed reading its prequel The Girl With A Dragon Tatoo )
3. A House For Mr.Biswas -- V.S.Naipaul
4. The God Delusion --- Richard Dawkins
5. The Historian---Elizabeth Kostova
6. Ulysses --- James Joyce
7. Fight Club --- Chuck Palahnuik (I am looking forward to reading this)
8. Shantaram --- Gregory Roberts
9. The Savage Detectives --- Roberto Bolano
10. Anna Karenina ---- Leo Tolstoy
11.Comrades --- Robert Service ( Reading in parts)
12. The Trial --- Franz Kafka
13. The Sound And The Fury -- William Faulkner
14. Catch 22 --- Joseph Keller ( I started reading this , but somehow did not go father than 20 pages )
15. The hitchhiker's Guide To Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
16. Cold Moon - Jeffery Daver
17. Simple truth - David Baldacci
18. Split Second - David Baldacci
19. The Catcher in the Rye --- J.D Salinger
20. Couple of Agatha Christie
Hmmm... well and I am eagerly waiting to grab my hands on
1. Lord Of The Rings --- J.R.R Tolkien (The tru ebooklovers out there would gasp in disbelief !!! I know , I somehow never read it to date)
2. 2666 - Roberto Bolano
3. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown (I am not one of those Brown maniacs , but I am just interested )
4. Her Fearful Symmetry ---Audrey Niffeneger ( I must say I loved her last book , The Time Traveller's Wife)
And most important of all
5. Lolita --- Vladimir Nabokov (I have been trying in vain to get a copy of this book :( )
Well, I dont know when would I get the time to read them , but I sure miss those days where I pick up the book and be a silent observer of a totally different world out there.
