To write every day and to stay away from the evils of social media were two other messages from him, which I obviously did not follow (guilty as charged) He had said that it took him 25 years to write this book and that he knew it would be a best seller the moment he wrote it. He was just abusing us left, right and centre, recounting his college days in Xavier’s, his crazy experiments with other students, all to drive home the point – the importance of standing out in a crowd. (It did take me a while, still) Pinto is hands down the craziest human being I have ever met in my life. It was only when, a couple of months back, Pinto came in like a tornado to my class at Xavier’s to give a 2-hour lecture (a lecture is to put it subtly) that I knew that I had to read this book. It made its way into my online wishlists perhaps a year ago, only to be buried under the humongous pile of books-that-I-wanted-to-read-but-was-too-broke-to-buy. Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto is that book.Įm and the Big Hoom is one book that I have constantly seen on my Instagram feed. And once in a while I come across a gem of a book, that breaks me and tears me apart and has me cursing myself for not picking it up sooner. It is when the latter gets a little overwhelming that I go back to book recommendations from trusted readers and rummage through my almost dusty TBR. It is of no surprise that I devour books -mostly fictions, a couple of non-fiction, some classics and a lot of unimpressive reads, thanks to review copies.
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