This Family day, long weekend in February has been especially annoying.
I have so much to do at home, but no mood to do it.
I am finding favorite foods boring.
Nothing on Netflix is holding my interest....I finished the Superstore, which I really loved !
I have borrowed a lot of books from library but can't seem to find it in me to read.
It's freezing out there and so I can't/won't go for walks.
Driving around makes me feel guilty about wasting precious-though-affordable-petrol.
I am sick and tired of playing the games on phone and computer.
The news is too terrible to read(Indian news...US news...world news..)
I am not really a sports person nor music nor a person with 'productive' hobbies and interests
For once in my life, I am up-to-date with my reports (from work) and not much to do there (But even if I had some work, I think, I would not have done it in these three days of holidays)
I don't have much to say to friends and so I am not calling them . I am also worried they will think I am needy if I keep calling them and have nothing to say!
Soooooooooooo I decided to reborrow and read a few of my favorites from the library.
I went through the list of book, I have read to find something which is cheerful, happy endings but is also crime fiction. Going through the list I realized Shamini Flint's Inspector Singh series fits the bill!
So I borrowed and finished the first in the list and have placed order for the next one. I really enjoyed re-reading this book. Thanks to have an atrociously poor memory, I had forgotten most of it and enjoyed it. Some things which makes this series charming and unique are:
1) There is no sex like in books by western authors of crime fiction. Many TV shows and crime fiction novels have a lot of adultery or at least lots of sexual liaisons between the main protagonists that is the detectives and this is something which I find 'unreal'. I cannot believe that people in real life go around sleeping with their colleagues or outside relationships. I strongly believe that these sex scenes are put in only to boost sales of books and that to me is a really a pathetic reason to shoe in an unrealistic thing into a novel or TV show. Inspector Singh comes across as a really real person...nothing strikes me as fake or made up about him, his wife or their relationship. And it is so intensely comforting for me to come across such a character (Indian origin!!!) in novels.
2) Flint's language is great and I like her humor...especially her observations of people, culture, life in Singapore, etc.
3) The crimes she covers brings to light about the corruption and nature of crimes and criminals in the east. One learns a lot about how life of the common man is in these countries. I have read other books set in the east but these are my favorite. It's too bad she has stopped writing the Inspector Singh series. There are still a few countries in the east where Singh could have gone and solved crimes in and given up a bit more joy!
Inspector Singh investigates a deadly Cambodian crime spree(2011)
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