Even before the first week of the New Year had gone by I broke one of the resolutions I made that I would stop buying books for a couple of weeks in 2025 if not for the first few months. It wasn’t one book I bought but a total of four books.
To tell the truth I had seen all these titles the previous Sunday, except for the Gauri Lankesh book. I had then decided I would think of buying them if they happened to be around until the next Sunday. So the Sunday came and I found that the three titles I had seen the previous Sunday were at the same place except one book on Australia that I couldn’t find. I was a bit disappointed because it was that book I had wanted to buy.
So the first book was a copy of ‘Russia- Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams’ by David K. Shipler, a book about Russia by a journalist. It was the kind of books I had begun buying of late, journalists’ accounts of a place or a war they were covering. It appeared interesting after I read a few random paragraphs, and got it for fifty rupees only.
The copy of ‘The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story’ ed Blance H. Gelfant, a thick volume with detailed profiles of several writers along with the short stories they had written was one I thought I would find gone but surprisingly no one seemed to have checked it out. This one was a bit expensive at three hundred rupees but it wasn’t what I was a bit worried about but about when I would get around to reading it since I had several books I have to read.
I found a nice copy of 'The Way I See It- A Gauri Lankesh Reader’ ed Chandan Gowda with a different seller and I grabbed it the moment I laid my eyes on it.
I had seen the copy of ‘Reading with Patrick’ by Michelle Kuo, at Chikkadpally the previous Sunday so when I found it at its usual place I bought it. This one cost me a hundred and fifty rupees.
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