Why ‘Love Story’ is an amazing book?

October 2, 2008

Book shelf It’s late afternoon; I’m browsing mindlessly on my Laptop in the dining room with LG fast asleep in the bedroom. There can’t be more peace than these stolen moments to get my work done and out of the way. And, unless you were in my shoes you wouldn’t understand how precious ‘an hour of LG’s nap’ is. It will be a good seven hours before I get another opportunity to think about work. With the maid not turning up for work today, my domestic responsibilities are not sparing either - cleaning, moping, you know the works!
Love Story I have a deadline to meet on an article before tomorrow and the first draft seems like a dream. Hit by a bad bout of writer’s block, the words just refuse to take shape for the opening sentence. I turned to my favorite blogs hoping to take my mind off the work on hand for a while. Didn’t work! So, I just shutdown the goddamn machine (sorry for the profanity) , walked around the house, tried to nap for a while in vain before picking up a book from the bookshelf. And, what do I choose - Erich Segal’s Love Story : an amazing book full of emotions, packed with drama and most importantly one that can be finished in one sitting. Just about what I needed for an afternoon like this ..lost count of the no. of times I’ve read the book. ‘Bozo’ is a favorite name in the family so much so that a teddy character in LG’s family goes by the name “Bozo Brother”. I just put the book back in its designated spot on the bookshelf with “liquid eyes”, as Ol says. With LG still asleep, I’m in the mood to get back to work with the hope of turning in the assignment by evening.