28/101

Seriously, if it weren't for my husband, I would be on a plane right now to India... or a train to Italy. Really, Italy is like six hours away. I want to be there, NOW! Not really feeling Indonesia, but heck, I'd go anywhere after reading this book. I just want to TRAVEL! Gilbert's experience was incredible, her writing style is so personal and real, and I loved this book! It's seriously the best book I've read in a while... Next Up: A New Earth (another Oprah book club book)

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27/101

Finished reading Ian Mcwan's Atonement tonight, and it was just okay. A friend recommended reading it before watching the movie, so not knowing much about the story, I bought the book and started reading... slowly at first, but things picked up after the first 100 pages or so. Just not my kind of book.




Next up: Eat, Pray Love by Gilbert.

P.S. I'm back home in Germany now.

Slacker

Nothing new to post about reading, but I did have a wonderful time in San Antonio and am now in Nashville visiting family and friends. Will try to incorporate some reading time each night before bed. Just because I'm not at home doesn't give me an excuse to be a slacker, or does it?!?

Oops

There were some good movies on the plane yesterday, and I didn't get nearly as much reading done as I had anticipated. Okay, I'll confess... I only read the first chapter of Atonement. The good news is that I made it to San Antonio, and so far, everything is going well. Meetings and all that fun stuff start tonight.

Chugging Along

For some reason, it took me forever to finish The Camel Bookmobile (#26). I don't think there was any particular cause. The story was good, although I am not a big fan of writing each chapter as told by a different main character. Maybe that was why I could never get into The Poisionwood Bible? I tried to read it twice and could never get past the first couple of chapters. Either way, The Camelbookmobile was a good book. I enjoy reading about Africa and hope to visit one day, and I work in the nonprofit sector, so that makes the book all the move relevant. It might have taken me a while, but it was worth it. I thoroughly enjoyed the book.

I leave on a 2+ week trip on Wednesday, and I will be spending plenty of time on planes and in airports, so I've picked out three (lightweight so they don't take up too much room in my suitcase) books to take with me:

#27 Atonement (Ian McEwan)
#28 Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
#29 A New Earth (Eckhart Tolle)

I'm challenging myself to finish all three books by the time I return home on 3 March. Will update then!

M

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Re: Book #23

Beah, who wrote about his time as a boy soldier, is having his story questioned. Beah defends his memories saying he wrote the book to the best of his recollection. He was only twelve years old when he became a soldier in Sierra Leone, Africa. Read about this HERE. Whatever happens with this, I think Beah was telling a story that needed to be told and drawing attention to a cause that should be at the center of the world's stage. How much longer can we pretend that the African continent is not enveloped in turmoil and despair?