Read 1 book a week

Just picked up a book on my shelf – The Flip Side by Flip Flippen. Hope it’s a good read, it’s a NY Times Bestseller, so it should be. The plan is to complete it by Sunday.

From tonight on ward till this Saturday… I want to read/finish reading… Mr. Monday, by Garth Nix. I would recommend this book to fantasy lovers… specially Teen’s—Reason… It’s easy reading compared to his other books/series, and also… when you read and imagine the setting/situation in the story…It’s totally AMAZING.

I’ve been doing it!
I pick books that are written by authors I really enjoy (Elizabeth Berg, Phillipa Gregory & Janet Evanovich) and I can breeze right through them.

O Analista de Bagé; Luis Fernando Verissimo. – A collection of comic chronicles written by Veríssimo. They are composed, specially, by regional and local jokes. It’s a small and funny book.

“Most of his works have a humorous tone. Among his short stories, features The Analista de Bagé (The Psychoanalist from Bagé a hilarious mix of the refinement of psychoanalysis and hillybilly backwardness)”
from:Wikipedia

Awesome book. I felt like I could relate to Sarah in many ways.

Just started it

This is part of goal #4. I’ve always been hopelessly addicted to books. The way they smell and feel. The way they make me think. I tend to read a lot at once, then go off into something else and not read for a while. At the moment I’m reading:

Jo’s Men (on the Sony Reader)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (this will be a slower read for me)

Recently bought:
The Art of War (gift from H)
Riding with Rilke
Three Cups of Tea (This reminds me of Reading Lolita in Tehran, which I need to finish)

Really enjoyed this book and finished it in 3 days. It’s a fun christian chick-lit that I could totally relax with and still get some deep stuff out of it. Some favorite passages -

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I am reminded that God has a wonderful plan for our lives, and even when it doesn’t make sense and it feels cruel, He’s still there. He’s weaving it all together in an elaborate and indiscernible pattern. A birth. A death. And so it goes in his time. (This was so beautifully written!)

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I was measuring him for the tux before I stopped to consider whether he was the kind of man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. But then you came in and made me see that it’s not about having a warm body, a Prince Charming, who happens to be the right size for the tux. It’s about someone who smashes everything up and makes you look at it with new eyes. More like Humpty Dumpty than Prince Charming. And I think you are my Humpty Dumpty.

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I guess when everything I thought I wanted was gone, I saw what it was I really needed.

Things that stuck out to me -

p.87 Girls who feel insecure about their identity, especially about how they are valued by others, may focus on physical appearance because such a focus provides a concrete way to construct an identity.

Problem solving -
1. identify problem early as possible
2. specify problem accurately
3. consider all possible solutions
4. think thru implications of each solution
5. choose best solution(s)
6. act on solution
7. look back next day and look for ways to improve solution

My thoughts:

Being the first Stephen King book I read and having seen the fantastic Kubrick movie before, I had no idea whether I would enjoy it, but I ended up loving it.

As a movie buff I understand most movies as having no value relation with the books. Great movies have come out from not-so-great books and great book have been the source of below average movies. In “The shinning”, both mediums are both perfectly used for the story, but even tough it is the same story, the focus varies in the movie from the book and that makes all the difference.

I was more curious with the first half of the book where the alcoholism presents itself as the primary source of terror as this is the part missing in the movie, but I also found the second half to be great because of it’s a lot scarier than the first. Absolutely amazing how King places three characters in the same scary situation and makes both occurrences equally terrifying(room 217).

I found this to be the scariest book I have ever read and an interesting journey to the monster of alcoholism.

Read this book on a dark silent night…it will make you imagination work on its maximum abilities.

Am trying to finish Ruth Rendell’s Master of the Moor, but it’s been hard as the story progresses at an extremly slow pace and she rambles too much about family relationships.

At the same time, I’m reading Alexandre Duma’s Count of monte cristo.

Keep reading.