Last Saturday I read in the papers that it would be very hot day on Sunday and it was also declared as heatwave day. No wonder then that the temperature last Sunday was 41 degrees C in the afternoon when I was leaving Abids after a couple of hours of browsing and picking up four titles.
The previous Sunday I had wanted to pick up the copy of ‘Spectacles’ by Sue Perkins, her memoir, that I had seen with a seller opposite the GPO at Abids. However, I couldn’t buy it as I had already bought four books by the time I got to that seller who had ‘Spectacles’.
so I decided to buy it last Sunday. I went straight to the seller near GPO as soon as I reached Abids and picked up the copy of ‘Spectacles’ by Sue Perkins that I paid eighty rupees for.
My fellow bibliophile friend Jai had come so we sat talking in the Irani over a cup of chai. We talked about books and fountain pens that we both are besotted with. Afterwards I set out and in a heap of fifty rupees books I saw a copy of ‘The Disenchanted’ by Bud Schulberg that I picked up. I vaguely remember reading the name of Bud Schulberg somewhere so bought it hoping it would be worth reading.
I had seen these two books- ‘A Rattling of Old Bones’ by Jonathan Ross and ‘Here Lies Nancy Frail’ by Jonathan Ross the previous Sunday but hesitated to buy them though the covers looked promising. Last Sunday I bought them and paid a hundred rupees for both the crime fiction titles. Since it was getting very hot I skipped the mandatory stop at Chikkadpally and went home before I evaporated in the intense heat.
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