Crossword has a sale going on and while I didn’t have the time or money to indulge the bookworm in me yesterday (after having blown a significant part of my Kerala holiday in various nooky bookshops in Palakkad) while grocery shopping at Hypercity but I did manage to sneak into the small Crossword section that they have next to the payment counters. Came across Kari, the graphic novel by former copywriter Amruta Patil. I had heard about it but never gotten around to buying a copy. I tend to behave like a bit of a spaced out cadet when I am in a bookstore, dazed and spellbound, not sure where to start, convinced I missed out some gem in a far flung corner of the store. In this case, I was intrigued enough by the pages that I flipped through, squabbles with parents on a holiday home, a peek into the life of an advertising agency executive, I could relate to most of them. i’ve promised myself that I’ll pick it up in a week’s time…
I recently read through a limited edition of Batman’s graphic novel which Husband picked up from a store in Bandra but have usually stayed away from graphic novels myself. I am, for most part, generously non-discriminatory when it comes to buying new books. Purchases in the last two weeks include, Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth; JM Coetzee’s Inner Workings, a collection of essays; Lauren Weisberger’s Chasing Harry Winston and Joe Dunthorne’s Submarine. Oh and also, Sanjeev Kapoor’s ‘Dal-Rotis’ and ‘Chinese Cooking’ (someday! ever the optimist…)
Tags: Amruta Patil, Bookworm, Chasing Harry Winston, Crossword, Graphic novels, Jhumpa Lahiri, JM Coetzee, Kari, Reading, Sanjeev Kapoor, Unaccustomed Earth
