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Yes!!! Picked up some more books at Indira Book Center:
- Malice Domestic 3 – An anthology of original traditional mystery stories presented by Nancy Pickard (which I am reading now – and it’s good! This is Laura de Leon’s review of the same).
- Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith – the sequel to Gorky Park which I picked up last time!
- Carl Hiaasen’s Basket Case – (a new author to me though I’ve read favorable reviews)
and three novels by Anne Rivers Siddons:
- Up Island
- King’s Oak
- Downtown
I got them for just IRs 100 (approx. USD 2.06) because I returned about a dozen books and threw in a bunch of magazines as well – they give you back half the rate you originally paid. So this place functions as a de facto library of sorts – only you get to keep the books as long as you like!
© Sosha Srinivasan
Sorry to disappoint you once again, but I’m not talking about old flames!
These are a couple of books that slipped out of my grasp at Mr. Manimaran’s Indira Book Centre.
One was a book on haiku that my son pointed out to me, but which I somehow failed to pick up – mentally tagged it but failed to follow through… It happens to the best of us.
The other was a hard bound copy of Fannie Flagg’s Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. I’d seen the movie and liked it, so I was pulled to the book. Unfortunately I had already chosen an armful of books and had run out of cash. So I left it behind, hoping against hope it would still be there next time…
Oh well, you lose some, you gain some!
© Sosha Srinivasan
It’s not what you’re thinking – I can promise you that!
Here goes – it’s the second-hand bookshop outside the Nungambakkam suburban railway station (at #5 Nelson Manickam Road, Choolaimedu) – a regular haunt of mine called Indira Book Centre.
The owner, Mr. Manimaran (mobile # 9444249899), has a unique collection going for a song and gets fresh stocks quite frequently – either library surpluses or discards from North America or old (but often untouched) stock from book stores in the UK and USA. How do I know? The evidence speaks – library pockets and cards and price stickers…
Last month I picked up about a dozen paperbacks for IRs 350 (approx. USD 7.20). These included
Anna Quindlen’s Black and Blue
Martin Cruz Smith’s Gorky Park
and pristine copies of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers and
Tamarind Mem by Anita Rau Badami
- the latter of which I thought utterly delightful – really well written, capturing the essence of the Indian ethos and an absolute hoot in parts!
I’d already read Paretsky (Fire Sale) and Qundlen’s Blessings and One True Thing, but all the others were new to me, though I’d read about them…
© Sosha Srinivasan
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