One book at a time

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.

                                                                                                                       -Foyce Carol Oates

I started reading to find an escape from my dull monotonous life style.  It was precisely when my three kids were quite able to do their tasks on their own. And there had started my reading journey.

After reading quite a number of books, it was in the recent couple of years I started taking in the stuffs I read to another level.  I started learning the style and the art of writing, of different authors - Preeti Shenoy, Chetan Bhagat, Shobhaa De, Nicholas Sparks, Kiran Manral, Jaya Jha, Sachin Garg, Jaishree Misra were a few, among others.  Every book, in its unique way has a take away. 

Some books are evergreen.  No matter how many times you read them and re-read, they retain the same magic as they had when you first read them.  There are some others, what gets you thinking long after you have flipped the last page.  And some have the capacity to be etched in your minds and hearts, never can leave you.  While some, give a pleasure taking you through its journey for the time being.  Some continue to stay for your life time.  There are other books that come once in a while to appeal you because of the blurb and the title but fail to work charms on you.    And there are other few that leaves you with a sense of awe. 

And a very few connect with your life.  There are few more, what you read for the sake of reading, rather to kill your time. 

Among all what I have read, Jaishree Misra, is one who’s writing I adore.  Needless to say, I am a big fan of her.  Her amazing narration, switch from the past to the present and the wonderful flow of taking the story forward with every apt word is simply superb.  I have read all her books and in fact, I am trying to adopt her style of writing in my stories.  And of course, Nicholas Sparks too, is the one whose writing takes me to an entire different world. And I must say, I feel disappointed when I realize that it is that last page that ends the book.

Of course, there are many other short story writers, details of whose I would be sharing in my future posts as I still am in the process of coming to a conclusion as to who is my favourite among all those…..

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