tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671536805876663540.post8915760413624759214..comments2023-10-31T20:33:26.817+05:30Comments on Past Continuous: THE OLD CURIOSITY BOOK-SHOPSucharita Sarkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07802171314546508539noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671536805876663540.post-10310092743860124342008-06-27T01:45:00.000+05:302008-06-27T01:45:00.000+05:30Hi everybody,thanks for the peek into the memory-l...Hi everybody,<BR/><BR/>thanks for the peek into the memory-lookbook.<BR/><BR/>Buy-a-book, rent-a-book, read-a-book and re-read-a-book, don't we love them all?Sucharita Sarkarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07802171314546508539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671536805876663540.post-37071237446445030762008-06-25T17:36:00.000+05:302008-06-25T17:36:00.000+05:30oooh! books books.... I grew up in a small town wh...oooh! books books.... I grew up in a small town where there were no bookstores or good libraries. I had a small collection of books and comics and the other kids in the campus had a few. We would read and re-read what we had. Whenever we travelled anywhere, my parents would buy me comics and books from the pushcart book vendors in the railway station. <BR/><BR/>As a child my favorite railway station was the Palghat (palakkaad) station. Thats where my mother and i stumbled upon "Anne of Green Gables" I went back there to get the next one in the series and the next. To this day, I might have read the Anne series abiut 15 times and I can still go on!!Deepahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05629301732033178347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671536805876663540.post-938378838549100882008-06-23T17:51:00.000+05:302008-06-23T17:51:00.000+05:30very nice & nostalgic post.reminded me of my schoo...very nice & nostalgic post.reminded me of my school days.Amithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08873923642304240611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671536805876663540.post-75042424774013583232008-06-23T16:44:00.000+05:302008-06-23T16:44:00.000+05:30Ohhh yess, I'm from that same "pres"tigious instit...Ohhh yess, I'm from that same "pres"tigious institution , indeed. :-DPiscean Angelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16593584850990296413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671536805876663540.post-22670344467445719152008-06-23T13:37:00.000+05:302008-06-23T13:37:00.000+05:30Wow !!! Your reading "journey" has been quite simi...Wow !!! Your reading "journey" has been quite similar to mine... the way u graduated from Enid Blyton's to Nancy Drew's to Mills & Boon & so on. :) And in fact, I used to go to this lending library opp. the Archies Store in Gariahat for my "fix" after I became a teenager. The Blyton's, Nancy Drew's and Classics being easily available in our school library.<BR/>And hey ... I think we went to the same college too ... mine being at the heart of boi-para as well. I was there from 92 - 95 in Chemistry dept. What abt u ???Piscean Angelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16593584850990296413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671536805876663540.post-4585725156852765612008-06-22T18:30:00.000+05:302008-06-22T18:30:00.000+05:30We never had the lending library as you mentioned ...We never had the lending library as you mentioned in Kuala Lumpur, maybe there could have been, but I wasn't aware. But started the reading habit late, when I was in India as my girl-friend then(my wife) was an avid reader. I actually started buying books so that I can read them while I am travelling and also to kill time in Chennai. I have read the Sidney Sheldon series, most of it anyway. Read some indian authors, I like Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. I also liked Kiran Desai and Anurathi Roy. Nowadays it's mostly philosophy books & books by John Grisham, Jeffrey Archer, etc) and I double park the books....buy another one before I can finish what I am reading. I have bought a book by PG Wodehouse titled "What Ho!" the best of PG Wodehouse.<BR/><BR/>Btw Thanks for sharing this pieceSukkuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12110183761614933822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671536805876663540.post-90855120309281153542008-06-22T17:00:00.000+05:302008-06-22T17:00:00.000+05:30Probably belong to the generation before yours, bu...Probably belong to the generation before yours, but we used to POUR over these Enid Blyton's Mallory Towers series. There wasn't a book shop as such, but my school gave these as academic prizes on annual days. Then there was a book called "What Katy did". The Secret Seven and Famous Five were also there but Mallory towers was really what all the girls read .....Ugich Konitarihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15901335427613806798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671536805876663540.post-16368615178483638472008-06-21T12:13:00.000+05:302008-06-21T12:13:00.000+05:30My favourite has been the various AH Wheeler shops...My favourite has been the various AH Wheeler shops spread across the various railway stations of the country. With them you could return the read books and get back 50% of the money. And you could do it at any stall irrespective of wherever you may have bought it.Lazyanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04515533973086213840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671536805876663540.post-39519798573832082792008-06-21T03:38:00.000+05:302008-06-21T03:38:00.000+05:30I really never had a favourite bookshop when i was...I really never had a favourite bookshop when i was small.My father who travelled due to his job,used to get books for me.I remember the 'english translated' russian books which i immensely loved.I got all the comic books from the paper man and the enid blytons either from my dad or from the school library.lopahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18165334793515601254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671536805876663540.post-11765132870158016452008-06-20T22:30:00.000+05:302008-06-20T22:30:00.000+05:30The bookstore is no longer there, since Katrina. ...The bookstore is no longer there, since Katrina. But I loved to go there as a little girl and even as an adult. You could buy used books. The pages were crisp and neat like new books, but they had the feel of being appreciated and that made them valuable to me. The neat thing is that if you bought the book and then returned the book, you could get store credit on the return and put it towards buying another book! It was great money wise and felt like it opened the door to reading more!Aletahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05605214202876973830noreply@blogger.com