MY AUTHOR’S
It always wonders me, how people from small town and living do become so big just by jotting down a story, but after me becoming a book-a-holic, I never turned back to that doubt again. The way the energy, the passion, vigor, and emotions kept alive in the books from the very first page and the way they are maintained till the end are something applaud-able. Personally, when young, all I knew was my Mathematics text book in front of me always and even in my dreams and I hated it the core. I was forced to sit in my school library and read books so that our fluency with English improves. My first book was Tinkle, and that is where my journey with books started. My 2nd book was “Five ran away together” by Enid Blytonpublished in 1944. She was a lady who kept the story alive with emotion running through every page. The book impressed me so much that in a span of a year I read all her books and started my new route towardsNancy Drew!! Though her books never fanaticized me, my favorite book of hers was “Mystery of Crocodile Island”.
My next series was Malgudi Days, a collection of short thought provoking stories byR.K Narayanan. Though it had no mystery, suspense, or action of any kind, I liked the way the book was written and during those days the stories from the novel was aired on Doordarshan and I was a follower of it. It taught me a great deal of good thoughts. After this author, there opened a new book store by our house during the summer break and my fingers started scratching my dad and I finally urged him to the store. There I got my own novel of Sydney Sheldon. During this course I never realized when I moved from my clogged space to books and I was attracted to mystery, fiction, and solving puzzles. I just loved reading books and my zeal for reading books increased when I finished the novel. He was a great writer, every page I read was instigating me to turn one more and I spend most of my nights reading books. In parallel, I was reading Agatha Christie books too, she was equally good, and she had just two detectives in her stories Mrs. Maple and Hercule Poirot. I like the latter and both were extraverts and their thinking and the way they solved mystery projected the author’s mind and that was fabulous.
I was completing my high school and forgot about books and concentrated on my studies, to my surprise I ran into a new series of books that created a sensation “Harry Potter” by J.K Rowling. She was the most talented writer with imagination so high that everyone who read the book waited for next one to release. Every book of hers created a sensation. It was a story of a boy whose parents are killed by a bad man and how he struggles in his life and takes revenge on the bad man. This story is so common and we get to see such stories one in every ten. But the way she wrote made everyone spell bound and all her books were all made into movies.
“John Grisham”, this guy is my favorite till date. He wrote books based on crime, poverty and solved them legally. He is a lawyer by occupation and so he was capable of not missing a point from his experience. The most inspiring book ever written was “The Street Lawyer” and it was by John. After reading the book, I could feel a change in myself. I suggest everyone to read this book at least once in their lifetime. It showed poverty in the richest country in the world USA, and how people really suffer for food, shelter and in cold. Continued my journey with his books and read most of them.
When I was doing my final year in bachelor’s degree, to while away my time, I read a book named “5 Point Someone” by Chetan Bhagat, the book had this weird title to it, but was very interesting. It was a story of 3 boys at IIT; the book included every spice that a student experiences in his/her college life. The author wrote two more- “One night at the call center” and “The three mistakes of my life”. All the three were fun to read and covered very different and interesting phases in one’s life.
This way my journey with books began and few more authors were James Red Field,John Woods, Stephen King, the authors’ list keep going endlessly. As of now continuing with a story of a journalist struggling for bread and on her way discovering truths about the darker side of life-an award winning novel “Nickel and Dimed”.
