Usually, I visit the Best
Books sale at least two times every time they put up a sale at YMCA, but after
the disappointing first visit this time around, and the sheer lazy attitude of
the people in charge there, I thought once is enough this time...and the other
day I was feeling rather restless in college and left an hour early...and got a
direct bus to JBS from Ghatkesar ...temptation reared its alluring head and I bought a ticket to JBS...half a kilometre before JBS is a traffic roundabout and next
to the roundabout is YMCA...the light turned red, the bus stopped, and I hopped
off the bus and went straight the sale hall...I don’t know what I expected
there this time... it couldn’t have been better than last time... these guys hadn’t
brought their crime fiction and thriller collection from their main shop, lack
of space they said...huh...not even one Dave Barry... the literary fiction collection
was so so and the rest of the collection I found fantastically boring...
anyway, since I had contrived to reach YMCA, I looked around disinterestedly...
I picked up a couple of books and put them back on the racks... and slowly and
slowly found these...
The blurb said this novel is a
Booker winner...and I liked the unassuming cover...nothing more nothing less...
This looked like a crime
fiction book... hadn’t heard of the author... the name of the investigator also
appealed... promising...and book is in mint condition...
Another crime fiction book,
looks like that...again, author is new to me... I only hope the promise held
out by the cover is not belied by visceral stuff inside...quite possible
actually...
Crime fiction again...the
title is good...haven’t heard about the authors at all... Scandinavian? Probably...
I have the entire series
actually...just that the first one is missing and I found this in mint
condition...
Didn’t want to leave this
behind...might read it some time... Telugu verse play translated into
English...and then there is Warangal...
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