Here are five of my most recent DNF’s: DNF Book 1 of 5: Gossip Girls in an Indian Village The Bandit Queens(Courtesy: The Author)Ī mishmash of Mean Girls, Gossip Girls and Sex and the City set in an Indian village, this book has rave reviews. Or do you see literary liberation in abandoning an unsatisfactory book? If it fails to capture your attention, it's perfectly fine to let it go. I have returned to reading, inspired by the words of Neil Gaiman- A book that you can't put down is a book that deserves to be read. If I don’t enjoy a book, either because I don’t like the writing, the dialogue or the characters, because I find it boring or am simply not in the mood for it - I Do Not Finish (DNF). It was months before I picked up a book again. I ploughed painfully through, a page at a time.īy the end, I had simply stopped reading. Like many of us, I was brought up a completist – finish the food on your plate and finish your books. I longed for literary comfort and there was more ambiguity. Add to these unlikely and alien apparitions, incestuous aunts and other unfamiliar occurrences– it was all too confusing. Not the best time to keep company with a flashbacking Colonel who thinks about ice as he faces a firing squad. One Hundred Years of Solitude(Courtesy: The Author) I was tense, uncertain in the city, and felt alone. By this time, most of my friends from school were in engineering, architecture and medical colleges and already, I felt left behind. I had finished high school earlier that year, and was in Delhi, planning to study English Literature at a residential college that would have me.Įvery morning, walking out of my uncles flat, into the scorching June summer, I clutched my wallet, my board exam results and A Hundred Years of Solitude, in a bag I held protectively across my chest, as I got onto DTC buses to different colleges, to stand in admission queues. "It’s a classic, you will love it ", he said. I was eighteen years old when my uncle handed me a copy of A Hundred Years of Solitude.
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