Reading and Re-reading.

Its been two months since I posted anything. Between health issues (and consequent doctor visits), and furnishing a new flat, I hardly had time for anything else. So, it was after a long time that I managed to read something, and decided to resurrect my blogging activity (for the umpteenth time).

As I thought of putting down my impressions on the latest book I read, I realized that the last "review" I posted is nearly an year old, and that one was started almost four years before! The last one I had written was "Mistress", from a book I had read a year earlier!! I was aghast! I have read nothing new since an year, after the first two volumes of the Shiva trilogy. I hang my head in shame!!

So, in this last year, I've only done re-readings, the most notable of them being 'Bhoothnath' and 'Rohtasmath' - having acquired complete works of Babu Devkinandan Khatri and Durgaprasad Khatri in November. I did not start with'Chandrakanta' and 'Chandrakanta Santati' having read them so many times that I almost remember them by heart :-) I started with 'Bhoothnath', and onto 'Rohtasmath', since I have read the latter only twice in last 25 years. I did read a few other books of the set (which actually did comprise the new readings), though didn't write any reviews for these. And the Chandrakanta series is impossible to write any reviews of, I can only express my fascination with it, ever since I first read it when I was in class 6 - and even that can fill pages upon pages. But one day. I am going to do it! :-)

To think of it, I actually read two more Readers' Digest compressed book selections, but none of the stories were as fascinating as the first selection I had read. Or perhaps I was not in a frame of mind to be fascinated.