paradise is ...
When the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards --
their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble –
the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say,
not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books under our arms,
"Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading."
~ Virginia Woolf ~
If there is a paradise, that has to be a big library, with all the books of this world. Those who enter it will be eternally hungry, for nothing but to read more and more. And I wish, I be a life time member there and sit there and read and read and read, leaving this mad world outside. Sigh..........
There is no place on earth that keeps me happier and at peace than a book store and the first loyalty card I owned was that of CrossWord. And I piously spend a portion of my earnings there that one day I aspire to be their most privileged customer.
There was a time I used to buy ten books at a time from the roadside vendor. Off late, I have decided to buy only from good bookstore. 'cos a truck load of them may be the only saving I would be leaving behind when I leave. So I have to buy good quality ones, internally and externally.
It is a habit originated from home, which I consider is the greatest gift I have been given.
There are people who don't share my passion, those who wonder "why?" and those who think I am pompous to talk about books. But the fact is that I am addicted to them, all the time.
I wish the Hindu philosophy of births and rebirths are true; one life is not enough even to go through the best of books. Even if I die, may Virginia Woolf be true about me, and I be given a place in heaven (or hell) where I am left alone with countless of books.
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
~ Louisa May Alcott ~
their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble –
the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say,
not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books under our arms,
"Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading."
~ Virginia Woolf ~
If there is a paradise, that has to be a big library, with all the books of this world. Those who enter it will be eternally hungry, for nothing but to read more and more. And I wish, I be a life time member there and sit there and read and read and read, leaving this mad world outside. Sigh..........
There is no place on earth that keeps me happier and at peace than a book store and the first loyalty card I owned was that of CrossWord. And I piously spend a portion of my earnings there that one day I aspire to be their most privileged customer.
There was a time I used to buy ten books at a time from the roadside vendor. Off late, I have decided to buy only from good bookstore. 'cos a truck load of them may be the only saving I would be leaving behind when I leave. So I have to buy good quality ones, internally and externally.
It is a habit originated from home, which I consider is the greatest gift I have been given.
There are people who don't share my passion, those who wonder "why?" and those who think I am pompous to talk about books. But the fact is that I am addicted to them, all the time.
I wish the Hindu philosophy of births and rebirths are true; one life is not enough even to go through the best of books. Even if I die, may Virginia Woolf be true about me, and I be given a place in heaven (or hell) where I am left alone with countless of books.
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
~ Louisa May Alcott ~
posted by Dew Drops at 2:11 AM
1 Comments:
I have at times wished that my father ran a bookstall rather than a stationey shop as he does now. So I could have all my favorite books for free and once I have read them, I could place it back to be sold. I have already decided that once I start earning, I will spend atleast 10% of my income on books. My dream is to have a huge library at my home. Whenever I am in a library or bookstall, I feel lost because I look around me and don't know what not to buy...Sometime back, I spent around 20 hours on the internet downloading ebooks. Now I have a 2 GB ebook collection including all the classics but I painfully realize having a book in hand is completely different from one on the computer.
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