I probably haven't read for pleasure in a month

 

I probably should have also noticed the open :whore:

 

Should have also realized I wrote :whore: instead of

Where's my edit button when I need it

 

Apparently it's coming back soon.





I'm easing up on the reading.

 

I'm reading Paulo Coelho's The Zahir. I feel like this book should have come at a different time in my life...And I'm not really fond of the dialogue between characters - it doesn't feel authentic, although the message is.

 

Curfewed Night - Basharat Peer.

"One Kashmiri Journalist's Front Account of Life, Love and War in His Homeland"

It is really, really intriguing, first thing I've read for pleasure in a few months, feels very good to get back into it.

 

Recently read:

"The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria" by Janine di Giovanni - Journalist's account of her time in Syria during the early-ish days of the Syrian Civil War. Insight into humanity at its worst. Do recommend.

"The Maximum Security Book Club" by Mikita Brottman - University Literature Professor's tales from a college level literature course/book club (no college credit earned) in a Maryland prison. Interesting to see the ways that people relate to books based on different experiences, the different factors that can turn people off from a book/block them emotionally investing in it. Solid, not great. Read if you can't find anything better.

I'm finally reading "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates now, which I'm VERY excited about. Surprised my local library has a copy in a town of <8000 people.

 

^The Morning They Came for Us sounds good.

I'm now reading Coelho's Brida and not especially into it.

 

Hello - Interesting. Could you elaborate on this thought? I have read the alchemist by Coelho and am considering picking this up.

 

The themes in the story are something that would've had more relevance to me several years ago, but after reflecting a bit I can see a connection in my present life. In terms of the dialogue...hmm. It's like he's tryig to impart wisdom, but the way the characters speak to each other (particularly the husband and wife) don't feel like things anyone would actually say out loud. You might share the same sentiment or information, but I struggled to feel as though that is the way two people would actually speak to each other.

Although it's been a few years, I recall loving Veronika Decides to Die and Warrior of the Light. I'm hoping my local library has The Spy - it looks good too.