A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

Reading “A Thousand Splendid Suns” made me feel so lucky of being a woman who can choose and decide about a future; a woman who has options and the chance to wish for anything better in life.
While I was getting into the story I thought about how we complain and demand things all the time without thinking how lucky we are.

"A Thousand Splendid Suns" explains the life of two Afghanistan women from 1960s to 2003, which also give the reader a history lesson of Afghanistan.

This book helps me to realise one more time how hard is being a woman depending where you have been born.

I strongly recommend this book to any women out there!

PAUL AUSTER

A friend of mine just introduced me to the world of Paul Auster and I am quite pleased he did it! I read The New York Trilogy - presented as a detective fiction - in ten days and left me a feeling I have never experienced before. The book is full of complex meanings between lines, characters without identity, confusing plots, abstract stories and surrealistic situations. His metaphysical and existential way of telling the story is something unique; his writing style is simple (without ornaments-just the way I like it) but intelligent. The book left me confused but satisfied thinking I should read it again straightaway. Finally I decided to read any other book, however I cannot wait to go back to Paul Auster‘s universe.

ONE DAY

Em and Dex have been part of my life for less than a month, and I have to say it has been a great pleasure! One day is a book full of life, friendship, actions, love, hate, decisions, words, feelings, relationships, behaviours, people and mainly about time; how the years take us by surprise and how the time show us the direction we are aiming. The author follows the life of the two characters every 15^th July   of each year, from 1988 to 2011. I found it quite interesting the way the story is told, just using one day to explain this simple but at the same time complicated tale about life.

(by the way great cover design )

Even if a day sounds a short amount of time imagine how much of yourself and your life can be told just in one day. Just imagine...

Being part of Michael Palin’s life

I am reading Michael Palin diaries 1969-1979; it is great and quite funny. He explains the years when the Monthy Pythons became famous.  I love Monthy Pythons, one of the best comedians ever existed. They have an abstract and absurd sense of humour that I love.

Reading this book is like being part of Michael Palin’s life for a while. It is weird but when you read a book it feels like the characters and story are part of  your own life. What a great pleasure is reading!!! Please read, read, and read.

I cannot leave this blog without adding one sketch from them. Although it was hard to choose one, here it goes: