From muffled solitude |
The non-fiction books, which I assumed were utter blahs, turned out to be page turners: Lynne Truss’s Eats, Shoots & Leaves that I relished reading, finished in one sitting and would have wanted to be four times longer than it is; Sam Ridley’s The End of Faith, which I absolutely love; Matt Ridley’s Genome – who would have thought that a book about amino acids, genes and chromosomes can be so riveting that it can't be put down? And above all is Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s biography written by Gerald Martin, which wasn’t only about the life of a great man but the history and politics of South America. I savored each page and dreaded the book’s end: I wanted it to last.
Though some of the books are obviously travel related, all took me to places I’ve never been before: to Paris in Wharton’s Madame de Treymes, a small town in Italy in Hersey’s A Bell for Adano, Mexico’s southern states in Greene’s The Power and the Glory, Kiev in The Fixer, Bath in Austen’s novels, New Orleans in Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces, along the Mississippi in Twain’s Tom Sawyer and a New England Village in Wharton’s Ethan Frome. And it was Florentino Ariza’s clandestine love affairs with countless widows in Love in the Time of Cholera that kept me from obsessing about the plane crashing when we were on our way to Boracay.
13 comments:
all those books in three months only? you've got so much time in your hands.. :)
and march isn't over yet! baka madagdagan pa yan. hahaha.
when i'm not at work, i spend almost all of my waking hours reading. inaabot ako hanggang umaga sa pagbabasa kung minsan. sobrang enjoy kasi. :)
graduate ka nga ng city high, adik! :)
at kasalanan mo kung bakit gusto kong pumunta ngayon sa borders kahit nasa bahay na ako...
hey, zars! it's great to see you here. salamat sa pagbisita. :)
tama ka, adik nga ang tawag sa atin. hahahhaha
she finds time reading while waiting for a chat response. :)
why not if i can finish a page before i get the next response?
that is called time management.
:)
unfortunately i am fueling that reading addiction. had she not lost her faith i would have suggested the 12 step program. :)
here is step 5 of the 12 step program (she will not admit to god).
# Step 5 - Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
hah! that is for you, you beer lover you!! hahahah
wow!...all i can say is wow. go books! go angeli!
among the books, EAT PRAY LOVE caught my attention... and my Google search shows that there's a movie of it coming up on August 2010 (with Julia Roberts playing as Elizabeth Gilbert). :)
i hope to read the book before i view the movie. :)
@kayni: go books, indeed - pananggalang sa kalungkutan. :)
@jac: yes, jac. eat, pray, love is a nice read and so different from the usual books i read. may pagka-chick lit sya. :) you will like it, especially when you visualize julia roberts savoring a gelato with that beautiful smile of hers. :)
Haven't been reading as much myself these days. Sometimes I take a break from it. All this inter-netting does take up a lot of my time though.
i read two to three hours daily before i go to sleep. it's a ritual that i don't deviate from. i also try to limit my hours on the Internet. :)
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