So, what happened to my reading habit ?

Bad news first : I am yet to finish the book ” God of Small Things”.Now the good news : I am still reading it, and I am reading few other books too.

Yes, I am still reading God of Small Things. I loved it, and was inspired enough to rename my blog to, Blog of Small Things. Offline Blog was a temporary name, and I was looking for a new name all this time. So, here we are , with the new name, “Blog of Small Things” How is that ?

I visited my village library, paid a fine for not returning a book for 1 year. Librarian is a great friend of mine, so I got the fine amount reduced to Rs.100. And yea, I bought 3 more books from Cochin last week.

I am fighting my “readers block” ( Thanks Nikhil for that term ). It is tough, real tough. I tried lot of things, and got a lot of suggestions.

I am going back to Malayalam books now, because that is where I started, and that is where I should start correcting my reading disorders. Reading Malayalam books may help me make reading much faster, hopefully …..

No !! This is not easy !! Not Happening !!

Hmm … don’t get confused friends… I am talking about my reading habit, which I am trying to save. It’s not as easy as I expected. I will tell you why….

I started reading ” The God Of Small Things” on 09 July . Now, it’s 17th July. So, it has been more than one week since I started reading that 339 pages book. I am at 177th page now. 8th of 21 chapters of the book. 22 pages a day, average !!.

That is really bad. I have a book waiting with 589 pages next to me. I need to read more books. I need to read more fast. I need to READ !!

What is happening with me ?  It’s simple. I will tell you how I am reading this book  …… Gmail > Book > Orkut > Book > Google Reader > Blog Comment > Book > Chat > Book > Dinner > Book ….

I know I am not going to finish it very soon if I am doing like this !! But, I am not going to give up this time. I will still read, and try to read more each day. ( Sounds easy but you know how tough it is .. right ? )

I will update you all  when I finish … reading it  … and one more thing .. I remember Poonam asking me about the next book … It is .. “ The Last Temptation of Christ “ by Nikos Kazantzakis,

I have lot of questions since I am trying to save my reading habit. What is the best time to read, is just one of them.

I am here to steal your reading techniques !!. Well, I will share it with others and it won’t be your own secrets anymore, so careful !!

1 What is the best time to read ?
2 How do you find more time to read ? ( or where and when do you read … )
3 Is there any particular spot, where you go to read ?  ( your bed room, terrace .. garden ? )
4 How many pages do you read, a day ?
5 Do you make note down things while reading ?
6 Do you buy books or get them from the Library ?
7 Do you read English books more, or your books in mother tongue
8 Which book is your all time favorite

Hmmm I think I have more questions, but later ….  if you have some tips to share, some strange habits ( ? ) or .. anything related to your reading habits…  share it !!

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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It’s been a long time since I did a tag post. Thanks to “My Chit Chat” , and Liju here is one again.

Eight things I am passionate about :

1 My Love
2 My Dreams
3 Internet
4 Music
5 Books
6 Journalism
7 Friends
8 My Blog

Eight things I want to do before I die:

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Poonam has the ( bad ) habit of tagging me all the time ( lol ). This time, she is asking me to share 8 random facts about me !! Even though I use the word “random”, I had to search a bit to find out what random means and think a little extra, what random facts can be ( ? ) shared.

Random = made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern So dont expect something bigg in this post ( nor in any other posts here, I am sure you already know it if you are here for second time )

1 Long back, someone whom I respect a lot, taught me this, ” Be the best in what you do “. I am too lazy, and later in life, I changed it or created my own version. “Be, what you can be the best” or be there, where you are sure, that you will be the best. [Read more →]

Its been a long time since I posted something here…. and today seems to be a good day to post one… you know why ? I am going to login today… ( ?? ) … yes I will start taking calls from today. After a long training period.. today is the D day … I dont know.. excited ? tensed ? happy ? confused ?…. anyway it is good..

Today I got enough free time to browse … I was going through my friends’ blogs…. the thing is I came three hours early for work. I had no idea that my shift had been changed. Good.. its been few days since I logged in to check all the other blogs of the group…. Arunis doing a lot of blogging these days .. ( coz he got married ?? ) I think he has gone ahead of me in stats..

Still I dont have a specific subjuct to blog on…. may because I was all tensed and confused till now.. and still is a.. bit .. foundation level training.. assessments..process training.. training assessments.. internal assessments.. hmmm now I can start taking calls.. and still an external assessment is pending.. I think I will get time to relax now.. so hope I will come back to active blogging.

My friends have already started saying.. if you are looking for dinsan … either he will be with his phone or infront of a pc .. browsing.. still its hard to do something on blog from those pcs’ .. its from the library that I get chance to do some blogging.. ..

Now that I am trying to bring my reading habit back .. I will have some more things to share with you. ( I dont know what happened to me I used to be a book worm.. but now .. )

Waiting for something more..