Pace- reading and running

what is it about books that one reads? I find reading the most enjoyable thing to do.  give me  a good( by my standard) book and a cup of coffee and i am a happy puppy . ok i hate puppies or anythin four legged so not sure i would be happy to use happy n puppy in the same sentence. oh well, ya books. I have read a lot of books over the last year. especially the last 6 months. More than i have in the last 5 years. what are these books n y do i spend so muc time reading them. For one they are my tiny getaways. when i read i am one with a book. i am the omnipresent observer of the characters depicted by the author. At some point i even see though the author. I judge who the author is, at that moment. I care for and cry with the people in the book. I smell the food they eat and i feel their tiredness. Its a sort of alter -life i lead with them. Sometimes its educative to know about life and times of people. Sometimes its pure entertainment. for the duraton that i am reading, i am an artist pianting the scenes with careful details. i imagine everythin i read. And guess what! i read mostly books based in India. So i connect back to my roots sort-of. I think of my place and thats probably as much India i can get right now.
I just started reading suitable boy by vikram seth. the details!!! they r driving me crazy! jus about 60 pages into it and am beginning to like it.
I am very slow at reading. like i take 5 min to read 2 pages. but i njoy it. i am equally slow at running. i run 15km in 100 min. not fast enough. but i njoy running at that pace. i think i love this take it in slow, take it in completely philo right now.

Humbled

Somedays are very unpleasant. It is very humbling to take care of a baby.  To Have a baby on the other hand made me sort of proud. It was a i-know-what-pain-is , i have been through the worst n now look at this doll that my body has created... the kind of pride that only a mother can feel. The anger boiled over and somehow its not inbuilt in me to loose, not sure if its the term but that most aptly captures what i feel at times of these unpleasantless. ya to loose to a 2 foot one year old cant-even-walk on her own khushi. She does not want to sleep. and thats about it. there is nothing under the sun i can do then that would make her sleep. Last afternoon i tried for more than an hour, rocking, singing and feeding her and she was still wide eyed. I got angry, i shouted at her and i plonked her down. she looked up at me , smiled and went on to play with scout. I was lost. i dint know what to do. i could not immediately hold her , cuddle her n play with her. She wasted an hour of mine! n there was no point in knotting my brows n continuing to be angry because clearly she dint care or understand. So after sitting for about 10 mins. i had to calm myself down completely, give up my anger and go back to her. Its so unlike what i would do with any other adult who would cause so much anger in me. I went back to reading out books to her and in general we were happy again. So humbling . Once u r a parent, throw ur ego , pride and the whole lot bundled together out the window !! 

kindle on PC

e-book reading first time and it is very exciting :) very very. I feel the same excitement as i did when i got my own computer and played games like solitaire (ya i did really!! n one where mines exploded) all night.
The comfort of not havin to turn pages or to worry about khushi tearing them apart before i finish reading them.
The dictionaryyyy yay to improve-vocabulary-campaign!
i am just loving it. ya how can i forget for once prash n i are both reading the same book, same time :D
n 'Born to Run' is the chosen one.