Aha … I bought these four books from the generous birthday
gift that Shubha gave me in the form of an amazon gift voucher … Shubha is my cousin (sister), who went on to become my sister-in-law ... of course, her
husband (my brother), and their son, along with her, form the gifter
triumvirate, but Shubha is the gifter-in-chief … she is one of the few people
who indulges me in my madness for books and also one of the few who reads (I can't see this) and responds (I can see this) in some way or the other to my posts …
Two books arrived on Saturday last week
and two on Sunday …
These two are the first Ross Macdonalds that I have
purchased fresh and new. My previous Ross
Macdonalds are all used copies. Come to
think of it, I haven’t purchased any ‘new’ crime fiction book in a long time,
until I bought these two. Ross Macdonalds
are very scarce even in used book stores, and even when they show up they are
quite expensive. Even those sources from
where I had earlier picked up my used Ross Macdonalds have dried up. I hadn’t read any Ross Macdonald novel for
almost a year and was thirsty and hungry. It is not that I was not tempted to buy a ‘new’
Ross Macdonald novel earlier. The prices
are much higher, of course. So, I’d
transfer some new ones into the shopping cart and wait, and wait, and wait …
nothing would happen. Once, the prices
fell dramatically, but like a fool, I pushed my luck and waited. The prices rose in the midnight 36 hours
later, while I was sleeping and I continued to wait. This gift voucher came at the right time,
then. Another sixty pages and The
Goodbye Look would be done.
Haan … Precious and Grace is the latest
novel in the No. 1 Ladies Detective
Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith … and this is a series that I dearly
love to read (along with many others!!) and I was waiting for the prices to
fall on this one too … the book was released late last year, but the prices
then were too high … I waited, again … and price came down a couple of days
after my birthday … nice timing, I should say … in went this book to the cart …
1400 Bananas, 76 Towns, and 1 Million People was supposed to be part of a set of
travel books that I intended to buy … but one book in the set is playing
truant, and refusing to come down from the high horse it’s been sitting on for
some time now … and when I was putting together books for the birthday gift set,
Samir Nazareth’s book fit into the last slot, with just a wee bit sticking out …
I was finally satisfied only after I pushed the buy button
and wiped out the gift voucher amount completely …
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