The Feel Good Books
I recently had a long discussion on a certain category of books with a friend and then another friend said that Its been too long I have not updated this blog for such a long time. So I realized I should write about the very books. All the women and also all the men would know them. Few love them, few hate them....yet a majority of people have read them. I am talking about the notorious MILLS&BOONS.
They are generally the same. One is very rich, the other not so...both of them are gorgeous, there is always a disagreement between the two before they finally confess their love and live happily ever after. Yet you have to admit...they carry their own charm. To young gang of girls, who highlight certain stanzas and keep giggling as they make their friends read, they are the stepping stone to adolescence. To the young boys, a sneer and a chortle. To those girls with beady eyes it is a dream.
The books would always make you...happy. Whether you laugh with derision, or mockingly or with happiness when they finally say I love you...it brings a smile to your face.
I started reading them in 9th standard and as I was recounting to this friend....man it was such a huge scene at school!. "Kanika reads MB's," they used to whisper and then say out loud. But they never really embarassed me. They were...well just another set of short stories.
188 standard pages. That is the length of a M&B.
I have graduated to a wide variety of books post my MB days. Yet even today...when i have nothing better to do I like reading them. Not for any other reason than to smile after one and a half hours when I would finish the book and keep it away. To all the women (though hardly anyone visits this page!!!!) who are reading and remembering their MB days (such a weird phrase yet it is apt!), pick one up again. It would be nice to feel like a 'little woman' again! And to all the men...
You can smile. For all of you in your teens would have seen a friend reading the books and laughed. Then somewhere in a small corner of your house read the book...
Own up guys...
They are generally the same. One is very rich, the other not so...both of them are gorgeous, there is always a disagreement between the two before they finally confess their love and live happily ever after. Yet you have to admit...they carry their own charm. To young gang of girls, who highlight certain stanzas and keep giggling as they make their friends read, they are the stepping stone to adolescence. To the young boys, a sneer and a chortle. To those girls with beady eyes it is a dream.
The books would always make you...happy. Whether you laugh with derision, or mockingly or with happiness when they finally say I love you...it brings a smile to your face.
I started reading them in 9th standard and as I was recounting to this friend....man it was such a huge scene at school!. "Kanika reads MB's," they used to whisper and then say out loud. But they never really embarassed me. They were...well just another set of short stories.
188 standard pages. That is the length of a M&B.
I have graduated to a wide variety of books post my MB days. Yet even today...when i have nothing better to do I like reading them. Not for any other reason than to smile after one and a half hours when I would finish the book and keep it away. To all the women (though hardly anyone visits this page!!!!) who are reading and remembering their MB days (such a weird phrase yet it is apt!), pick one up again. It would be nice to feel like a 'little woman' again! And to all the men...
You can smile. For all of you in your teens would have seen a friend reading the books and laughed. Then somewhere in a small corner of your house read the book...
Own up guys...
posted by Kanika at 12:06 AM
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