The Dead Tree Collection

A tree that stood for years, weathered the seasons, provided shade for may a scorched traveler, provided home to our winged friends and finally axed down in the shade of our greed. Sometimes we fell a tree to make our roads wider, some for better manicure of the land, some to support our aching backs and lazy butts but a few fortunate trees do not die when the axe falls upon it but be born again. Every book we read is the afterlife of a tree. I like to believe that its the soul of the tree that provides us with the warmth of emotions we feel when we read a great book. In honor of all those great beings who sacrificed their lives so that we could travel great distances, meet exciting individuals, participate in ethereal gatherings, I will call my new blog deadtreecollection.blogspot.in

I am an old school reader. I prefer to read hard copies of books instead of the E format. I am not against kindle, computers or my mobile and will read form any of those if the occasion presses me, but in my preference, the physical book always triumphs. I know that more I read the book, more trees need to be felled, yet I cannot think of shifting to E books yet because I love collecting and exhibiting the books I have read. Maybe one day my son may take up reading as a passion and be happy that Daddy have made a formidable library for him.

In the last year I have read around 40 books among which I had listed 30 or so in my goodreads.com account. I went through my old library car and found that I have read an average of around 40-45 books every year since my 8th standard in 1998. So it can be safely assumed that my total non academic literature journey have crossed the 700th milestone in the last year.  I have occasionally reviewed a few of the books in my facebook page and in my other blog finalloaf.blogspot.in but recently I have been thinking of making a blog exclusive for book reviews. I also plan to widen the scope of this blog into reviewing movies and series based on books in the future. 

In the beginning, I will be doing most of the reviews myself but is planning to include some avid readers to widen the reach of this blog as the reading community themselves will be benefited along with upcoming authors to whom this will act as a  publicity medium and a constructive criticism site. 

I request all my readers to support this blog just as you have supported my previous blog :)



Edit: I have decided to merge my two blogs for the sake of convenience into one. So all the posts in this blog have been shifted to the  original blog acynictalks.blogspot.in which I hope will be updated as much as my schedule permits. I like this title a bit too much so will not be deleting this and maybe use this for some other purpose later on.