i just came across this list of “1001 (fiction) books that you must read before you die” http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.22845/Books and realised that in recent years i have really fallen behind in reading. i skimmed through the list and didn’t find anything i am familiar with. i haven’t done a proper read of the list - no time for that, but it looks pretty alien to me.

as a child i did not read much. was not a reader. but in my late teens i picked up reading and got really hooked up. did read an awful number of books. at one point it was atleast one book a day. and at some atleast two books a week. and as life became complicated with more responsibilities, the number started to reduce to atleast 2 a month and now hardly manage to read even 2 a year how pathetic is that?!

but the good news is, that i in fact have picked up reading – even before i saw that list. based on my research interest i found a relevant fiction which i just had to read. i read that during break times at work, on bus, and one dedicated evening. and when i went to sydney two weeks back i took another book (just a fiction for the sake of fiction) just in case i found myself bored and wanting to read something. have to say that i didn’t get much time to read it there – firslty i forgot to take it with me when we left the hotel in sydney so did not have the book during the 3 days in dooralong and secondly the time in dooralong was tight packed with activities. luckily i got the book back on the 4th day on our return to the same hotel as i had called up earlier to let them know that i must have left it in the room and also requested them to hold it for me as we will return.

anyways, on the flight back i managed to read some. and ever since i have used my “toilet” (tO) time, and time waiting for bus as reading times. that is the best i can do. i hardly have any time with studies, family, work, and also the academic readings. i finished that one just two days ago and got another one and have already started reading it too.

looking back, in 2007 all i read was the last book in harry potter series. i have been such a harry potter fan that i got the book immediately when it was released. read during tO -times, meal times, bus times, and stayed up one night – sadly i don’t recall reading anything else (fiction) for the whole of last year.

that’s why i have decided to write up this post as an incentive to read. from this point forward i am going to keep a list of what i read with a little intro on what it was. fiction and general reading. and i will keep adding to this (list) post as i progress. but of course this reading list post is kept seperate and private. it is kind of personal.