Ruby Ramblings

Food must be found; books must be read.  I headed out to Haggarty’s a Brit-Indie take-away joint that has notoriously long wait times for a place that is take-out only.  I managed to read 33 pages while waiting for my chicken jalfrezi. I’m a big fan of Gita Mehta, and her wry sense of humor regarding Indian culture and the influx of western people living there.

“They were the Port Out gentry, who struggled for one hundred years to impress upon us that the most noble muscle in the human body is the sphincter, which must be kept tightly clenched at all times. By the time they returned Starboard Home, a whole sleepy continent had been trussed up in the great Victorian Straightjacket.”

This book focuses on the giant industry that has arisen around ‘Gurus’ and people traveling to India to find enlightenment of some kind. I haven’t traveled to India, but I did live outside of Kathmandu, Nepal for a while, and many of the foreign folks I met there said they would come to Nepal to get away from the hustle and crush of India.     Pages read: 203 Page in current book: 35   Update: I fell asleep quite a few time while reading this, and also had to pack up a few things as I have a giant move impending next weekend. Page 95 Pages read: 298

It looks like you are doing FABULOUS so far! I hope that you are having lots of fun and getting a few good books read as well 🙂

Happy Reading!

*Team Wordsworth

Comment by samantha1020 April 26, 2014 @ 9:48 pm

Hang in there! Hopefully the chicken jalfrezi made it come alive a bit more? : ) Full sensory experience?

Comment by Jen @ Book Scribbles April 26, 2014 @ 9:59 pm