Its 3AM in the morning and I have just completed An Equal Music. It would be a disgrace if I do not write about the book hence could not leave it until later.
I remember starting the book and hoping that I will get past the nearly 500 pages and now that the book has been read by the word it seems like I just experienced something that I had never imagined. It is the journey that you take with reluctance but as you move you ahead, it engulfs you so completely, you never want the journey to end. It goes into the top 10 favourite books of all times and the sheer joy every word gave me.
In the last few weeks, each time I picked up the book I was in another world, another world with similar impossibilities posing at the narrator, the simple and lyrical interpretation of the author just leaves me amazed. We all live complicated lives but few of us immerse themselves into these complications rather than attempting to get out of it. Michael to me is one such person who has lost the love of his life on his own accord and hence lives a life with an effort to survive every day. His passion, his music helps him remain sane through his nights and days of loneliness until he meets Julia again and love ignites the both again. The complications that surface then just break and re create new barriers in their lives.
This book makes me want to hear Bach and travel to Europe (Rochsdale, Yorkshire) it makes me want to find that one thing that would ignite a passion in me to live my life around it. It helps me reflect on my life and think. Think about the better and the worse that make my life more meaningful. The story just forces me to accept the darkness with as much willingness as the light. It makes me want to learn to cherish every moment for being able to shed some more of my inhibitions and insecurities.
It is about living and just living instead of living with hopes and expectations.
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I second you! It is this very book that made me yearn to learn about classical music. And made me wonder, How someone could be so passionate about anything! Above all that, it is hard to believe that an Indian writer could pull it off (The English classical music, their lifestyle) so well! One of my best reads!
sounds like a cool book... expectations are usually not met anyway, so why bother?
A-ha so have the time/inclination and curiousity to read the comments but none of the above to actually write a post.
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