Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children wins 40-year Best of the Booker Prize …..

“Almost 30 years ago, his novel Midnight’s Children saw off the competition to win the Booker Prize. Today, Sir Salman Rushdie did it again, beating all previous Booker winners including the Nobel laureates Doris Lessing, J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer to carry away a one-off literary award celebrating the Booker’s 40th anniversary.

Midnight’s Children, considered one of the most important works of the modern age, has been voted the greatest Booker Prizewinner in the history of the award.”

This is a news indeed , especially when you are reading another Booker Price Winning Work !!

I am yet to read this book … sad .. right ? are there great souls who have read this book already ? will you share some thoughts with me ? .. I should look for the book now ..

Don’t you think it’s a good time to renew my Library membership, back home !! Yes !!! I should do it this weekend .. hmmm … Nostalgia .. again …  Just a small but important update about God of Small Things ..  I am at 60th page now … !!

Yes, the incomplete me because, I don’t read enough books these days. “These days” can be defined as “last 3 years”.

When I was in college, I used to read 3 - 5 books a week plus lot of magazines from College library and our village library. I always had a book with me, even while having my food. Just like how you look for your favorite brands in a supermarket, I searched for books by my favorite authors and tried to finish them one by one, - one author at time !!

So what happened to my reading habit ? It was a gradual change. It all started when I got my first job. When  I started working, I did night shifts most of the time. I enjoyed night shifts, and my teammates enjoyed me doing night shifts !! So when you do night shift, you need to sleep during the day time right ? Well, I used to sleep the entire day !! and slowly, my reading habit died !!

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