My Confessions

Before I go ahead with the post, I just want to make a disclaimer. Don’t judge the author by what she has written :)

I was talking to S today, you know the general anything-under-the-sun discussions, we seem to be having these quite often lately. They are actually very informative ( I did make a whole presentation in my class based on these) when we are not bitching about our erstwhile bad decisions in life.

This particular discussion started off just as anything other, berating ourselves for our non-existent social lives. Then there was a bit of cyberstalking involved (you know about this person who a friend of a friend). Anyhoo, so after a long chat about eM and her ex (whom, I found out by using my stalking superpowers muhaha :D), S told me about this new blog that she has been reading. The blogger is apparently her friend’s friend and a very funny writer (I read a few of her posts later and she is good :) ). One of her posts was very interesting. She was talking about M&B’s advent into India.

I guess this is as good as a place to finally confess, I read M&B. There, guilty as charged (Okie, if you are a regular reader I did say that I never buy M&B in one of my previous posts, which is true I never do, I just borrow a book or download it off the net). It’s not that I m obsessed with them or something. I need to read something mindless when I m tired and in no mood to pick up a heavy book (which is generally the whole of my book collection).

 Whenever I am super bored I pick up one these and skim through them. You don’t have to read it page after page to know the story. There is a standard storyline actually.  Let’s see how does it go?

The guy is generally super rich, self made, no-nonsense business man, generally from Europe or some other exotic place with name like Draco, Philippe, Antonio etc, etc. He is TDH, brooding, serious and you know all those qualities that you will assign to a guy who can be called a knight in shining armor. The girl generally is poor, but is very honest, up-right, down to earth, innocent (this is a must!) and is doing one of these menial jobs: nurse, maid, secretary, book keeper, something unremarkable basically. They can never have a female character who is well educated and old (that would defeat the purpose right :) )

They meet in one those hollywoodish meet-cutes. And then obviously the guy falls for her but he doesn’t know it himself. But the girl as she is all innocent falls for him and waits for him to realize how important she is to him (which may sometimes take years). Then finally the guy will have an epiphany where he will realize that he is in love with her and cannot live without her and makes a grand gesture which generally involves a lot of subterfuge and masquerade. And then they finally live happily ever after.

You see when there is such a realistic plot and such an engrossing story how can you not dragged into this. I thought I was the only one who enjoys this type of literature but I was pleasantly surprised to find many-a blog dedicated to these so called works of art. (You might have a question here, what was I doing lurking around these sites, well you know how it is, just data gathering for some research purposes :D)

When I in so many words said the same thing to S, she started laughing her ass off and dutifully posted on FB that I am an M&B expert and suggested that I should write a few myself. I just want to clear the air and set the record straight that it’s okie to read them. My fellow M&B readers out there, you are not alone. It’s not a crime!

Humor aside, it’s not terrible to read some bad literature sometimes. If it makes you feel good then it’s not a big deal. I mean, I do read other stuff, most of them are generally about existentialism or surrealism or something equally depressing.  These books for me are a good reprieve. I m finally out of the closet. (Phew! it feels good to finally admit it :) )

Untill the next post,
Cheerio!