And I have run out of book space in my study – or as Keshav calls it – the bookshop.
So two things to do now – add more shelves in my room, and expand to the guest room. A couple of bookshelves in the offing, that should be enough for my current collection and a few weeks more.
What after that, you ask? Well…
In other news, and not so much for those who follow my WhatsApp status messages – I have been savoring…actually relishing the notes of Franklin, the Benjamin variety. Keep having a dekko – the guy will stay with me for quite a while.
Here is what I wrote nearly a year back...a lot of water under the bridge (or pages flipped through, staying on the theme of the written word) since then. Keshav is now an avid reader, and reads nearly as much as me, which is a lot. So you may chance upon us sometime, flopped on our bean bags, buried deep in our respective choices of prose – me with Franklin and Tharoor and he with Julia (Donaldson) and Roger (Hargreaves).
Long live the art of reading!
Piece by piece, block by block, segment by segment…the wall-to-wall bookshelf is nearly ready. Once the frame is done, wrapping and then it’s complete. at 3 meters tall and 4 meters wide, it is big enough to host around 600 books, or in other words, my current collection, give and take a few.
Which means I will need another such mammoth undertaking soon enough.
But a start is a start:)
My mission, (and I chose to accept it), is MRGA. Yes, a derivative of the slogan you are hearing half of America say, MRGA is the need of the hour (in my Trump voice) – it’s great, it’s the best, believe me.
Make Reading Great Again.
Please stop that “I am a visual learner” nonsense. I don’t see anyone “visual”ing a physics textbook, or a math lesson for that matter. You have to get down to the basic act of reading, one that seems so difficult to so many people right now.
Including just about everyone I know.
Except by son, who loves reading – one small problem though. He can’t. So yours truly does it for him:)
Here is Naval Ravikant’s take on reading. For those who don’t know him, do get hold of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant. Worth your money:)