The week that went by

This morning, I just looked at the date and realised that the New year is already a week old!

Looking back at the last one week, It has been a really hectic week for me.I have been giving press interviews and radio interviews among other things.

DNA as well as the New Indian express carried a piece about The secret Wish list.

Click on the highlighted words to read the online versions of the above.
The book has been getting some great reviews.Click here to read.

My publishers also told me that it has hit the top 10 in the Nielsen Book scan. I was elated to hear that. So the week had started off on a grand note for me and I am grateful as well as glad.

Among all the madness and the rush of daily life, one of the things that makes me truly happy is books. Every room in my house has books, apart from a dedicated family room, which houses two large antique cupboards (from pondicherry) full of books. One houses Satish's and my books and the other houses the children's books. (I totally love children's books too)

Here is another view of the same room.

Notice the small cupboard ? That is full of comics :) Like Amar chita kathas, Calvin Hobbes , Asterix and Obelix and Mad comics :) I love them :)

And then there is the work-out room which houses the treadmill. That too has shelves full of  books :)

Even when I am on the treadmill, I read.
Apart from this, you will find books on my bedside table, books in the wooden shelves opposite my bed, and books in my study (where I work and create art). Satish too is a voracious reader and so are my two children. It isn't unusual to find all of us sitting together, reading our respective books. We're like that :)


Somehow I hate e-books.

Look at the pictures above. Reducing all those books to this..

It just doesn't cut it for me!

I need to feel the pages, I need to touch the book and somehow curling up with an E-reader on those sofas isn't the same as curling up with a real book!
Sure it is convenient and all that . Sure--I have listened to all the advantages of the e-books.

But I still prefer reading the old fashioned way.
I still use an ink-pen to write. I still send hand-written letters to a few special people.

In this day of modernity., I still cling to some timesless things from the 'old world'.

How has your week been? Has 2013 started off well for you?

Broken any resolutions yet? :) Or didn't make them at all?
E-books or paper books for you?

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