scale for FUN

how do you measure the stage of life you are in?

I realize, that life can be measured by the books you read. well at least my life.
when it was about having a first crush..archie comics and sweet valley were the aisle of books to visit. but i wasn't much of a valley fan. i was into the young detectives. the famous five. cute!

then i discovered austen's books. mom gave me sense & sensibility to read. but i did not finish that first. i got my own copy of Pride & prejudice and that was my first finished austen. eventually the entire collection and some others about austen or her works just end up to be the most treasured collection or most re-read ones. always good for anytime, any age, any stage i'm in.

then when it was the rise of the hormones..it was a rush towards teen romance. Love stories series. then graduated to real romantic fictions. mum's books every now and then (judith mcnaught, jane feathers etc.), and the chic lits.

as the world shaped in front of my eyes..i flooded my shelves left right and center with political sagas, periodicals, auto bio of world leaders, those smart sounding books on capital market and well 'undercover economics' seemed like the best thing ever written. it was smart. funny. and makes a very civic point across i.e. that we were all fools of others. multi level fools :P

then finally it's the stage where art imitates life or life imitates art. either way, I tend to look for books that gave away answers. well, not answers but similarities. the same problems, the same kind of happiness, emptiness, kinship, loss, tragedy. just to find another voice that I can relate to. to know that I am not the only one who feels a certain way. others have gone through the same and theirs have an ending. that ending could also be yours or you can make it different.to learn from the things written. to find an opinion. to find a connection. to find an understanding.

but today, at a stage of my life where i'm the busiest & most responsible i have ever needed to be, I skipped through all the chic lits and the drama, the politics and the romance. I went straight to science fiction and grabbed a copy of son of a witch and witches on board. because they bring fun. the much needed fun of a world entirely not like ours.

and that's how i measure parts of the so called life :)

ps: i've always wanted to be in a book club. a nice small book club.

DOT.