The Sunday Haul (on 02-02-2025)

 For the first time in the year I took out the cap as it looked like it would get quite hot later in the day. Later when I reached Abids I was glad I had decided to bring along the cap as the sun was uncomfortably hot. Earlier at Chikkadpally I picked up the copy of ‘The Anatomy of Story’ by John Truby that I had spotted with a seller two Sundays ago but hadn’t bought. Many years ago I had found a hardcover copy of this book and had also started reading it but couldn’t finish more than half of it for some reason I do not recollect now. But I plan to read it again starting tomorrow. I got it for a hundred and fifty rupees. 

At Abids I got the pleasantest surprise when I spotted a nice copy of ‘South by Limpopo’ by Dervla Murphy with the same seller from whom I had bought a copy of ‘On a Shoestring to Coorg: An Experience of Southern India’ the previous Sunday. I got it for a hundred rupees and felt glad because I had seen a copy of it at Blossoms Book House in Bengaluru last December and had not bought it. The reason was that I had bought too many books by then especially titles by Jan Morris and another reason was that the price of the book was somewhere around three hundred rupees. I felt very lucky finding it.

But more luck was in store for me. A little later I spotted a copy of ‘Hidden Agendas’ by John Pilger! I love reading his journalism and was very thrilled to find it for just fifty rupees. This is the fourth John Pilger title I have found. Sometimes I wish I had become a journalist instead of a government flunkey. 

 The last find of the day was a copy of ‘The Ivory Grin’ by Ross Macdonald that I spotted in a heap of fifty rupees books. I already have a copy of this title that I had found long back but it had a different cover.  I want to read it again as I love Ross Macdonald’s writing.