Week 14 - Eleven Minutes & The Lovely Bones

Since I overlapped and finished 2 books the last time - I was still reading Life of Pi when I started on the The Curious Incident... - and it's been almost a week since I started on a new book so now I'm overcompensating and reading 2 books at the same time! One is an ebook and the other is a paperback I borrowed.

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Eleven Minutes

by

Paulo Coelho

AND

The Lovely Bones

by

Alice Sebold

I started reading both books last night and it seems like they have certain things in common - both protagonists are female and they seemed to have been disillusioned in one way or another...Maria's motivation behind her "profession" is because of her bitterness against love and I particularly am drawn more to the character of Lindsey the sister of Susie (The Lovely Bones) because I seem to relate with her especially when it comes to expressing feelings or the lack of an appropriate outlet for them... well it's quite difficult to explain unless you really know me

It seems that I will enjoy reading both books... I just hope they won't end tragically since they both had a bad start already haha...

Week 11 - The Graveyard Book

I knew Paulo Coelho's By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept will be such a light read - i finished it in roughly 5 days and I know if I had more time I can do it in a day haha! It was the typical Coelho book with all the thought provoking inspirations and backhanded advices that you didn't see coming... Since I'm back to reading light fare...my next book is another children's book

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I randomly chose this book among my stash of ebooks in my iPod while I was waiting for my friend to arrive before we headed out to watching a late night movie yesterday...After checking online I didn't realize it was a children's fantasy novel...maybe sort of his Coraline...let's see how this would turn out...or how fast I would finish this one...

The Graveyard Book

by

Neil Gaiman

Week 10 - By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept

Since my last book, All The Pretty Horses, made me break my challenge - I finished reading that just last Sunday because I was either too busy and wasn't too engrossed in it - I thought of choosing a "lighter" book to read (that makes me rethink including the Millenium trilogy in my book challenge now that is a long read for sure!)

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I'm choosing a lighter read for my next book and I do hope I stick to this...

and don't be too surprised but I really haven't read this one

by Paulo Coelho

By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept

blog of this bestselling author

Someone posted this in one of my blog's comments...
so I'm just sharing this with you too...

it's Paulo Coelho's blog...

this will surely be one good read...

http://paulocoelhoblog.com/