Flipkart.com is seriously the book lover's equivalent of a booty call.
I mean, I love spending hours at a bookshop. Browsing new titles and old classics, leafing through pages, reading paragraphs, wondering if the book will be just as well written throughout or if it will get better later on (in case the beginning is bad).
Lately however, I haven't been buying any books at shops because well, the prices are just too high. Then I discovered Flipkart - the motherlode - where everything (almost) is available and that too at much lower prices! All it takes is a few clicks and then you're sitting back in anticipation and excitement for the fun to begin. And even though it feels like I'm cheating on my favourite book stores, it's just too good to resist. In other words, it's the book booty call!
Since I hadn't bought any new books in a while, I decided to treat myself to something new to read this month. I logged on to the site and spent a considerable amount of time deciding what to buy. The downside to buying books online is that it's really difficult to select something you haven't read before or heard about. It's perfect if you know what you want, of course. Anyway, I managed to find three books that I think I will enjoy reading (wikipedia and reviews on amazon helped a bit!). One book that I'd heard about but never read and another, which I've read but the copy of which I seem to have misplaced (or had pinched!).
Also ended up ordering two movies. Did this just a couple of hours back and I've been informed that four of the seven items I ordered, have already been shipped!
So here's my loot and I just can't wait for the weekend. I hope it pours and pours outside so that I don't feel too guilty about staying inside and reading the whole time :-)
BOOKS
Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer
The Garden of Solitude by Siddhartha Gigoo
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Animal Farm by George Orwell (read several times before but can't find my copy)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (heard about and read reviews of )
MOVIES
Fallen Angels and Chungking Express by Wong Kar Wai (watched before but can't find copies)
The best part is, ALL of the above cost me just Rs 985!
I was so happy that I baked myself a gorgeous, golden vanilla pound cake to celebrate. And even though, it's been six whole months since I last baked, I was pleased to discover that I still have it! Oh yes, I do... (Just worried about what my tennis elbows will have to say tomorrow morning tho!)
6 comments:
I'm a fan of Amazon where I can always get the book I'm after at a reasonable price.
In Diana Athill's great tome - 'Life Class' she writes about Jean Rhys who she worked with. I looked for the index to quote what she had written about Rhys's book and guess what - no index- in a book of nearly 700 pages.
All the books I have read recently have been recommended by bloggers - The latest 'Room' by Emma Donoghue - a riveting read.
Do let us know what you think about the books please.
Pat - Amazon's shipping costs to India are higher than the actual book prices, so thank heavens for Flipkart :-)
The Jean Rhys book is supposed to be a sort of prequel to Jane Eyre, and is the story of the first Mrs Rochester before she went mad.
I will write a bit about the books as I get through them - right now I'm on Curfewed Night and it's really good so far!
Room is on my Flipkart wishlist, so maybe next month :-)
Do not read The Wide Sargasso Sea if you have the flu, if you're feeling down...if you're just not feeling great!
[Had to study it for West Indian lit.]
There are few things that make me as happy as visit to a great library or a bookstore. But I have been meaning to give Flipkart a try ever since I found out how much money I'd be saving! I thought I was the only one who bought books I like too much but that had gone missing or had been 'borrowed'...I guess not :)
Do you also like to read online. I could forward you a link to several free online books that you might like. Why not get yourself an ebook reader like kindle and carry a library with you where ever you go...
@Grace - Go for it. Flipkart is really good.
@Himanshu - The answer to yr question is the topic of a post I am planning.
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