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Getting in touch with your inner bitch

diricawl — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:40:34 +0000

by Elizabeth Hilts

Have you ever said “yes” when what you meant “no”? Wanted to give someone a piece of your mind and eaten a piece of cake instead? What about the whole cake? If you’re nodding in agreement, you may be suffering from Toxic Niceness. And then you need to get in touch with your Inner Bitch…

Lesson n°1: repeat after me “I don’t think so”

Read the book for further lessons…

The Time Traveller’s Wife

diricawl — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:49:38 +0000

by Audrey Niffenegger

It’s impossible to describe the beauty of this book.

It is an unconventional love story that centers on a man with a strange genetic disorder that causes him to unpredictably time-travel, and his wife, an artist who has to cope with his frequent absences and dangerous experiences. In this book, unlike many other time travel stories, it is not possible to change the past or future.

The book unfolds through their memories and the reader gets regular glimpses of how it might end. While the end reveals itself, I couldn’t help but pray it wouldn’t end the way it seemed.

Fantastic, it gets under your skin… I regularly reread bits and pieces…

La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind)

diricawl — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:30:29 +0000

Writer: Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A literary mystery set in 1945 Barcelona where David Sempere finds a book that will change the course of his life and throw him into a labyrinth of intrigues and buried secrets in the heart of Barcelona.

You also get a good idea of what life was like during the Civil War in Spain (1936-1939).

Take your time to read this book. It’s a beautiful, but complex story and you only grasp the meaning of everything at the end of the book.

I really loved it!

One piece of advice: read a bit about the Civil War on Wikipedia. It helps to understand a few things especially when the writer names a few known names in Spanish history that might be less known to others.

Books I recommend

diricawl — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:39:53 +0000

I’m starting this new category… I want to share what I read… I’m a very fortunate person because I can read in several languages. This gives me an almost unlimited choice of books to read. I usually read several books at the same time…

In this category I want to share my great reading moments… Keep tuned…