Category: Literary Escapes
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_David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants_ by Malcolm Gladwell
_David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants_ by Malcolm Gladwell Over three years ago, I posted upon hearing about this new title by Gladwell. No doubt, he already has another one out, but I do not yet know about it. 😉 I have really enjoyed just about everything he has written and…
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_The Shadow of the Wind_ by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
_The Shadow of the Wind_ by Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1 was a book that a student recommended that I read. When she was reading it, I noticed that she was seemingly addicted to it as she was reading it whenever I walked into class or if there was extra time…
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_MaddAddam_ by Margaret Atwood
_MaddAddam_ by Margaret Atwood The last of the trilogy following_Oryx and Crake_ and _The Year of the Flood_, this one was very disappointing to me. I finished reading it a while ago and am just now trying to remember more than the fact that I was not happy with the ending of this trilogy given how…
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_Second Honeymoon_ by James Patterson
_Second Honeymoon_ by James Patterson In light of yesterday’s adventure, I took along a ‘holiday’ reading for the plane ride. Also, it seems that lately I have been preferring to read paper books for some reason. Since I had bought this one in the last week of work for a discount, I thought it was…
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_The 4-hour Workweek_ by Timothy Ferriss
_The 4-hour Workweek_ by Timothy Ferriss I mean how can the title of this book not interest you? Who doesn’t want to be able to work only four hours a week and still make a decent living? Ferriss offers some very tangible and realistic ways to free up time or to use time efficiently to…
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_Edge of Eternity_ by Ken Follett
_Edge of Eternity_ by Ken Follett As promised, I have finally made it to writing about the last of The Century Trilogy. Despite some reviews saying that they did not like this one as much as the others, I found that I enjoyed it just as much if not more. The family lines started in the…
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_The Robber Bride_ by Margaret Atwood
_The Robber Bride_ by Margaret Atwood My foray into Margaret Atwood is spotty. It seems that I come across her books quite by accident. The first one I ever read by Atwood was _The Blind Assassin_, which I picked up at a thrift shop somewhere when I was visiting my parents. I devoured that finding…
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_The Murder House_ by James Patterson
_The Murder House_ by James Patterson In my quest to keep distracting myself and still enjoy the long Eid weekend, I decided to give myself a little reprieve from my four other books I am reading and have some ‘holiday’ pleasure. This title popped up on my Goodreads recommended list and I put it on…
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_Winter of the World_ by Ken Follett
_Winter of the World_ by Ken Follett The Century Trilogy #2 following _Fall of Giants_, which I read about three years ago now continues with the next generation of characters during the World War II period. Following characters from Germany, Russia (Soviet Union), the US and Britain provides all different sides of the war time.…
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Value of Freedom
Day 8: What book are you most grateful for? Oh my what a very tough question for me…! There are so many wonderful books out there and reading is my absolute favorite form of escaping reality. I have been doing it for as long as I can remember – reading to enter another world. 😛…
