Wishes of a Techie

Where the wild things are Ok, so after writing the first post I had forgotten that I was supposed to followup on the reading books as well. So I was watching some movies and suddenly the thought of this blog crossed my mind and I started searching out the list (refer to previous post for the complete list) for selecting my first book. To be frank, most of the books (at least by their names) did not excited me enough. So I thought of randomly picking the book, I filtered the list by Amazon's recommendation and picked the last one from the filtered list. So the book was "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak. I had no idea about what this book is all about and I was so astonished to find out that it was a children's book and that too very compact. So I headed to Kindle store and searched for it and got it as part of "Picture book collection for kids part II". It was an anticlimax for my quest for finding an exciting book to read until I started really r...

Hope every day has some time with a book and a cup of tea! W e are living in difficult times, totally locked down and sitting at homes. Perhaps, it has provided us an opportunity to reflect upon what we had set out for and what all got left behind in the hassle of life. For me, one such thing is Reading books, though I was never an avid reader but with time I had, at least, started reading some books and I had kind of liked it. But with time, somehow I could not carry that habit forward and now if I look back I have not read even a single book in last couple of years. I believe that whatever I have read so far constituted some aspect of my personality and unlike all other habits, it added in a positive way only. So, with the time which was made available by this lockdown, I have thought of setting out on a journey of reading books. So I searched on the internet and found a list of books which one should read before dying (it claimed so!).. then I searched further and found several such...