Bookstore memory

Nothing like catching up with old friends on a summer night.  M showed me around the famed Google campus, with their 18 different restaurants providing free food, their volleyball courts and swimming pools and gigantic gym, their open offices with snacks and espresso machines on every floor, their "Google" bikes that people ride around campus - it's a self contained unit with a single motive of keeping the worker in.  ( I wonder what J.G. Ballard would say). I saw pasty geeky looking devs riding around the bikes, young Indian men showing off the place proudly to their parents, few women and extremely fit men and women playing beach volleyball (M said they were from the business units).

We ate in a Tequira, which is a cheap Mexican place popular around this side of the country.  The food was good though, and then went for a couple of drinks.

Walking back, we saw a bookstore and my legs automatically steered me inside.  I've realized that I've done this enough times before and just so that I remember them, I decide to blog everytime I entered one.

So, this was Book Buyers on Castro Street, Mountain View, CA.  (Image :google)

The night was with A & M. And I bought Orhan Pamuk's Snow.

A asked who he was and didn't seem terribly interested when I said that he was dating Kiran Desai (HG is the source of this). 

Book unusual

I have to admit that this is the most unusual book I've read.  Not unusual in the story, but just in the manner of reading it.  I could go two days easily without even glancing at it, but when I do pick it up, I spend hours without even realizing the evening has turned into night and that the natural light is fading. Two days later, I can just continue exactly from where I stopped.

I've never read a book this way before.  Usually, it's the regular 50 pages a day or the frantic reading where I do nothing else. This one..hmm..strange.

Another thing about this book, I GET the guy.  I understand what he's doing - the half man the half loser character that he is.  Weird.

Mr. Bird's favorite place

We plan on getting to 1000 books as quickly as we can.