A
SEA OF BOOKS I SEE…
Hannah
Chandran, II MA English
“I want to buy them all…” was what I kept saying again
and again to my friend, on the way back to college, after visiting the 40th
Chennai Book Fair. I had postponed my visit to the Book Fair till the last day
simply because of the fact that I hate crowds. After arriving at the grounds on
the last day of the Fair however, my fear of crowds disappeared and all I could
see were…BOOKS, and BOOKS, and MORE BOOKS.
It was as though my dream came true. I even forgot
about my friend who had accompanied me
to the Fair. I was so excited seeing so many stalls that I could not stay in
one stall for more than two minutes – I simply had to see what was in the next
stall! There were stalls selling books of different genres, languages and
subject matters.
The stall that really caught my attention was the one
that sold books for only Rs. 50/-. The only other place where I have been that
sold books that cheap was in a few roadside shops in Trivandrum, Kerala. Seeing
this particular stall in the Book Fair made me so happy, that I wished that I
could buy all the books there! There was another stall that sold only fiction
and biographies. I could not help but wish I was, - as the saying goes, - as rich
as Croesus. Most of the books in this stall were number one bestsellers.
Though I had a wonderful time looking at all the books
in each and every stall that I went, I was regretful that I could not buy any. The reason for my
dilemma – I wanted to buy them all.
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