While arranging my books in the new bookshelf in my new house, I found to my great surprise that I possessed two books that I had bought nearly 4 years back, but never read!!
However can that happen?! I think I bought a number of books at the same time, and read some of them. These two were perhaps in a back row; and there was a long phase where I had hardly been reading anything, so I did not miss them. When we shifted to Bangalore about two years back, I had to put all my books in one small cupboard, so the bigger size ones were naturally cramped at the back. I might have noticed them then, but with too much to do, I simply forgot all about their existence. Until the time I had to arrange my books in the new, large bookshelf :-)
The first one was was 'Nine Lives' by William Dalrymple, an author of whom I have heard a lot (who hasn't?!), but never read before. The other was 'If you are afraid of heights' by Raj Kamal Jha, of whom I have never heard before.
The first one was was 'Nine Lives' by William Dalrymple, an author of whom I have heard a lot (who hasn't?!), but never read before. The other was 'If you are afraid of heights' by Raj Kamal Jha, of whom I have never heard before.
