On the World Book Day
Today is World Book Day. I intend to celebrate it by just reading. For me, one of the advantages of having locked down at home is the opportunity to bury myself in the ocean of my books. I don’t remember who, but somebody said to me that a room with no books seems as though a body without soul or life. So I made a bookshelf I can lose myself in for hours every day. It is one of my best investments. Just staring at the bookshelf, wondering what to read next, is meditative.

Books give thoughts to the mind, wings to imagination and dreams, and life and strength to everything else. They are the best and most trusted of companions.

My Treasure
I have a sizeable collection of books and then some more. They are of all genres. By bestselling authors and novelists, I am just discovering. I like trying to crack murder mysteries and unravel suspense thrillers. And I enjoy returning to books I loved to read as a boy. Enid Blyton’s ‘Famous Five’, the ‘Secret Seven’ and ‘Five Find-Outers’, Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Three Investigators’, Franklin W. Dixon’s ‘Hardy Boys’ and Richmal Crompton’s ‘William’. Good old Archie, too! I have a 1,000-page compendium of Archie comics with 100 classic stories.

I Echo this
A wise person once said “you are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you listen to. The people you spend time with, the conversation you engage in. Choose wisely what you feed your mind. It’s true.

What a simple joy you find as you spend a lazy day at home, while you read? TV is depressing. All sadness and sickness. But the feel of a book’s pages, the sound of them turning under my fingertips, the smell of the print is healing. A book feels, sounds, and smells like happiness. And as I open the cover of a book. I’m opening the doorway to another world. From which I will only step away when the last page I read.

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