
My life, my journey, my writing – Deepti Menon
Deepti Menon is the author of the ‘Shadow’ trilogy of thrillers and her stories have been published in around 25 anthologies. She has shared her
This book should have been titled as ‘My love affair with reading’. I took time to pick up the book and start reading. Though it’s a thin, petite, cute book but still after going through the table of contents, I was not sure what kind of world this book will open up for me. But one fine day, I told myself that reading is reading and I should exercise my brain with all kind of books.
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Browsing through the chapters, I felt just one thing – jealousy. I know it’s a real strong word, but yes, I was jealous with all the fourteen authors. They were exposed to the book world right from their childhood and my romance with books started when I picked up the subject of English Literature in college. The only books which donned the shelves during childhood were tonnes of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Maths. When I was cruising through my X and XII standard, CBSE had introduced a new edition of books in English. I loved them as they had beautiful poems and stories. Never had it crossed my mind that I would love swimming in the pages of the books and end up writing as well. English Literature also happened by chance as I didn’t get through any engineering college and getting an admission via payment seats was not the norm followed at my house. I had decided to pick up management in Masters and there was no point studying science for three years. And hence books fell in my lap. I still remember the days when I used to turn philosophical with T. S. Eliot, John Donne and William Wordsworth.
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‘I’d Rather Read’ took me back to those years when I was building up my relationship with books and I am happy that it was not short lived but a marriage for years.
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Few excerpts from the book that I liked :
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\”Children don’t remember authors. They remember stories. A child doesn’t read a book because it is fashionable to do so. They read only because the story speaks to them. Children start a book with neither prejudice nor expectations. That makes them a true reader in every sense.\”
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\”I liked reading about exotic places and people who owned islands and ate unfamiliar food. It didn’t make me feel deprived in the least; on the contrary, it showed me that the world was a big place, full of joyful possibilities.\”
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And of course the short sweet poem by Jerry Pinto.
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I have a new reading list to finish now. The authors have listed their own favourites and I was a little disappointed that from the long list I had hardly read one or two.
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If you would like to know what exactly consists in a bookworm’s world, pick up this book. And if you want to coax somebody to pick up reading, gift them this book.
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Author: Various\nPublisher: Rupa Publications\nRelease: October 2015\nGenre: Non Fiction / Anthology\nBuy from�Amazon
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