A month of frothy reading, for a change. Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series fell into my hands, and, having heard about its phenomenal success in the adolescent market, I was curious about it. I expected to skim the first book and then lose interest, but I landed up devouring all four tomes in quick [...]
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Non-fiction choices this month: the story of success and the art of happiness. While success doesn’t necessarily guarantee happiness, acquiring the art of being happy could be seen as the greatest of all human achievements. Outliers: The story of success by Malcolm Gladwell (Allen Lane) What is it that makes some people famous and successful, [...] Only one this month; retrenchment and associated angst took a big bite out of my reading time. I’ll be back on track in March. The Angel’s Game (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Written six years after the best-selling The Shadow of the Wind (see December books), this [...] This month I’ve stayed with the European travel theme (always start the year the way you plan to continue). I particularly enjoyed C’est La Folie, not just because it has an endearing cat in it with the same name as my cat, and not just because I have visited the [...]
France and Spain are occupying my thoughts this month. Any chance I’ll have an air ticket in my Christmas stocking?
Books, Baguettes & Bedbugs (Phoenix) by [...] All four of these books have stretched me in different ways: I’ve learned more about Tibet and what happened on the island of Guernsey in the second world war, but more than that, I’ve loved the spirit of the women who went out there and found these stories. [...]
The pile of books next to my bed has been growing over the past few months, but a spate of bad weather and a break in assignments gave me the gap I needed to get back into the reading [...] Elected Silence, by Thomas Merton (Hollis & Carter)
Merton’s autobiography, The Seven-storey Mountain, was published in 1948, and this, the British version, came out the following year. My mother acquired her copy at a second-hand book sale, by the [...] The Shack by William P Young (Windblown Media). Trying to fathom the mind of God is both fascinating and futile. Fathoming the mind of a man who claims to have fathomed the mind of God is a journey not many would take. William P Young takes it in his interpretation of his [...] |
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