The Sunday Haul (on 19-01-2025)

A few years ago I had come across a copy of a title by CLR James but it was in such a bad condition that I did not buy it. Now I am not able to recollect the title but I think it was a copy of ‘Beyond a Boundary’ that I found last Sunday at Abids. I was looking for another book, a title on China that I had not bought the previous Sunday thinking I would buy it this Sunday. Unfortunately, I did not find it but found the CLR James title that I got for a hundred rupees only. 

I already have a copy of ‘The Blue Hammer’ by Ross Macdonald but it was a paperback. I saw a beautiful hardcover copy of the same title in a heap selling for just fifty rupees and I could not resist buying it. 

Only the previous Sunday I had bought a title on Russia that I haven’t yet started reading and this Sunday I was surprised to find another similar title- ‘The Russians’ by Hedrick Smith. Smith is a journalist, a veteran New York Times Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, and on the cover there was just one word blurb by Time magazine that said ‘Superb’ which was enough reason for me to buy it. 

Later on I spotted a copy of ‘Gathering Evidence’ by Thomas Bernhard not at Abids but at Chikkadpally. Sometime back I had found a title by Bernhard but haven’t found the time to read it. ‘Gathering Evidence’ is a memoir something I love reading especially if they happen to be by writers. I got this too for a hundred rupees.