I’m at a stage where I need serious therapy for deaddiction from reading blogs. For example, a Sunday is not quite a Sunday, unless I read post secret with my morning chai. A weekday is not a weekday, unless I get my daily fix of the brat and the bean. And then there are the thousands of food blogs that I salivate at and bookmark to try out at home. I don’t want to really get into listing out each and every blog and why I love it, coz it will run into thousands of pages. I may not like everything I read, some of the posts even make my blood boil. But then blogs are like caffeine, they keep me going through the day.
So, one such blog I used to read and love is waiter rant. Initially, I thought this person can not be a waiter. It must be someone else who’s doing a great job of pretending to be one, coz you know a waiter can not be this witty or write this well. Yes sometimes I can be very crude. But all that changed as I read more of his posts and voila – he published a book! Well I laid my hands on that book a couple of days back and I’ve been having a ball of a time reading it.
I’ve been on a reading spree of late, probably because I have some free time now. With the baby, I no longer have the luxury of spending hours and hours at book stores (Blossom is my favourite). I have a Crossword close to my house, but I soon discovered that if you’re looking to buy a book that’s not a best seller or on a specific subject, Crossword surely won’t be stocking it. All they seem to have is the Sidney Sheldons, Dale Carnieges and other management and personal help crap and in the food section they just have Tarla Dalal and Nita Mehta. So I started ordering books from rediff and I preferred that far more to rummaging through the millions of books in a bookstore. I no longer have the patience to read a bad book. I feel angry and cheated at the end of a reading a book that has nothing much to offer. So I am going strictly by recommendations. I check Amazon for the reviews and then I order through rediff. I was quite liking this arrangement, till I found flipkart. They’re far more prompt, with a decent search engine and generally its a much better experience compared to rediff who has refused to keep up with the times. I hope this is not just due to the initial enthusiasm at flipkart and they keep up the good service as they go forward.
By the way, I am wondering if I am slowly and gradually transforming into one of those book worm type snobs who follow this equation.
# of books read (i.e well-read) => person is smart and worthy of interaction.
Oh god I hope I haven’t changed into one already!
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Blinkandmiss – do resist from becoming a book-worm snob – there are too many intelligent people out there who haven’t had the chance!
Snobbery dangers are a-plenty nowadays – food snob, traveled abroad to exotic location snob, write a blog snob, he he..
ha ha.. ya i know there’s a snob for everything these days. i fear that i am turning into something i hate with my full heart. :P