Is it time for an Intervention?

I love to read.
I read just about anything that can be read.
I read the back of the cereal box every time I have cereal.
I read the user manual of any new device. Yes! The entire booklet.
I read leaflets enclosed in medicine boxes, you know, the one about side effects and all.
In short, I read every word of practically every printed/written matter.

Yet, I skipped whole sections of Robin Cook’s Intervention. I was so bored by the book. What a disappointment considering my expectations from the author. What was he thinking? Riding the Dan Brown wave? More precisely, riding the Dan Brown-induced threat-to-Christianity wave? I’d barely gotten through The Lost Symbol before I swore off these history+Christianity combos. And then came Intervention, that too when I was really lusting for familiar medical action.

Now which author is going to follow suit? Forsythe? Follet? No, please not Grisham. Calling all for an intervention before things start getting outta hand!

Tennis's Nemeses

The Australian Open Men's finals was epic! It was a pleasure to see Djokovic emerge as the winner.

I've never been a fan of Nadal-style tennis - the huffing, puffing and running all over the court. I've never found that scuttling enjoyable. Apart from the playing style, I have this deep-seated bias against the said player. Nadal is Federer's nemesis. I remembering calling Nadal a nemesis way back in 2005, long before I read it in the papers!

In the same note, I utterly dislike Amanda Coetzer because I've maintained that she was Steffi Graf's nemesis. Ah, the Golden days of Women's tennis :)