Well, sort of. It’s been more than three months and life’s still not conducive to blogging. But I don’t want to keep this place silent.  To be honest, while I have been gone from here, I have done a few posts over at my other hangout, Überdesi. But I have missed out on a lot of blogging here.

While I have been gone, lot of things happened. India did quite well in Test cricket. Rahman did quite well with his entry into mainstream Hollywood (and I made a fool of myself with some orgasmic blabbering) and touched a lot of hearts, both white and brown with that nice acceptance speech at the Golden Globes. 2008 closed with unemployment in the US at an all time high of 7.2 % (as the world went into recession), rogue elements (aka the government) in Pakistan decided to piss off India and the Indian IT industry went into denial over corporate governance (or the lack thereof).

And in between all this, I (re)discovered Twitter. And I tweeted about all these events.

I was introduced to Twitter in April ‘07, before Twitter became what it has now become. After acting like a curmudgeon about it for the most part of 2007 and 2008, I was forced by an ultimatum from certain friends (you know who you are ) to ditch my clever G-Talk status updates [random sample: Dodge Ram: The official truck of the Sangh Parivar (post Tata takeover of Chrysler)] and switch to Twitter instead.

Since then, it’s been Twitter and thankfully my mother (I had to explain every single clever GTalk status, killing the joke in the process) is not on it and so it has been good. I have totally warmed up to Twitter and don’t seem to have any time to blog. Actually I do have *lots* of time to blog, but I totally lack the enthu and for a change it is not laziness that is the reason. All I can say here and now is that, while the reasons are rather private, I will be back for good, soon. Hopefully.

But in the meantime, i don’t want this space to be idle. My closest friends have, in the past year, heard me lament about how I don’t read *books* any more. The past year or so, blogs (and other online media) have slowly started dominating my reading time and I want to change this status quo. Besides, my (virtual) book case is overflowing with books that I have picked up and have not read at all.

So when a friend pointed me to a 20 Books in 2009 challenge, I decided to take it up. For a lot of you, it is probably not a challenge at all, but for someone like me who wants to kickstart a reading habit again, it is a worthy challenge, I think. So to start the challenge, I cheated. Yup! Conveniently I picked up the shortest book available closeby to start out the challenge.

One of the rules of this 20in2009 challenge is that I have to track the books I read with a blog post/separate page. That offers me an avenue to update this blog. I am making it interesting planning to add my own challenge too. Since I am tweeting mostly these days, I want to limit these reviews fit the Twitter character limit, i.e. to 140 characters and post them on my Twitter stream too. One second thoughts, I don’t think a 140 character tweet can do justice to a book review. So, what say, I do 55-worders instead?

Look out for the review later tonight. Needless to say, the reviews will be irreverant (which means I’ll sound dumb, actually), so don’t bother using my reviews to feed your (non-existent) reading habit.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 at 8:21 pm and is filed under Books, Life, Personal, life sucks.