Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Life in US.... Books I read

I've been thinking of writing about my life here since the day I landed.... One of the main reasons I came to US before April is to get rid of scorching sun in Chennai during April and especially May :-P and ofcourse I wasn't too interested in the project I was involved in and the most important reason is to get rid of all those questions "What is your plan? Sajeeve is in US and you are in India, what are you guys planning to do?" UFFFFFFF gimme a break, its not that now I don't get such questions. Nowadays they ask me, "So when are you guys coming back and have you started searching for a job there? Can you work there?" etc. etc. but atleast now I don't have to listen to them 'cos it's an ISD call and I don't get these questions every day...

I wonder how I was able to spend time all alone for the past 3, oh no it's gonna be 4 months now :-( other than watching lots and lots of movies I read 2 books and I listened to one audio book. These are the books I read,



This story is about a guy who kidnaps a 6 months old baby, the kidnappers name is Blaze. Initially he kidnaps the baby for money but he slowly starts liking the baby and wants to bring him up as his own. You will feel pity for this guy Blaze, especially when he dies in the end.

Another book is Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain.

I picked this book only 'cos of it's cover. And as you know don't judge a book by it's cover, I was not very impressed by the story. Didn't like the characters in it.

The other audio book was given to me by the owner of the house wherever we are staying in. His name is Andrew Wilson, a nice guy. He is the manager of some audio books division in some company. He gave me this audio book "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" by Stephen King.

The story is very simple but I liked it though, and it was a different experience to listen to it. Unlike reading a book you easily get distracted while listening to the audio book, and it is kinda difficult to keep track of the story unless you listen carefully and remember where exactly you paused the story previously. But with the background musice and the expressions of the reader you will be easily drawn into the story, and if you listen to this in the night you will kinda feel eerie. I guess these kinds of books are preferred by visually challenged people other than that I don't find any reason why anyone should go for this instead of buying a book.

I want to buy Amazon Kindle or

Sony Reader

so that I can read lots more instead of just sitting in front of my laptop throughout the day. But I am sure I will not enjoy reading in any of these as much as I enjoy reading a book.

Ok, I'm done with this post, it's already long, I shall probably write another post about other things I've been doing here.