Brida

Breathe underwater - Placebo

Reading The Book thief, and have started reading The Truth about Melody Browne, which was unplaned.

Usually I look it up, especially if it gets repeated a lot, or if it's just a great word. I do try and make up what it means before looking it up in the dictionary, but if I can do that thenI don't consider it to be unknown. Of course, sometimes I just don't want to stop reading and then I just let it go. But if I'm reading in a language I'm not very familiar with (I haven't been studying for long and my vocab is bad ) then I'll probably mostly read for the sake of learning new words. But those readings take time

YAY! Review time Bare with me, this is the first review I've ever written * The five people you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom* Synopsis: Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in the toil of his father before him, fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. Then he dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. As the story builds to its stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his life. Was it a heroic success or a devastating failure? The answer is as magical and inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself. This book was an ok read. Nothing more, nothing less. On the other hand, this book is one of those that leave you thinking. It's true that sometimes only a change of perspective (and also, a few pieces of information given to us because we were not aware of them) can explain some events, and give them meaning. Or at least show us that things don't happen for nothing - everything happens for a reason (that's what I always say to myself, and was glad to see it mentioned in the book ). It is sad at times, and painful, but all in all I think it's pretty optimistic, don't you? The story itself is interesting, simple, imaginative, and probably suggestible in a way in describing the afterlife (I know it's just the author's ''vision'' of it) to those who are looking for, I dunno a positive description of heaven I guess As I said, as a read it was ok, but boy does it leave you with tons of questions/ideas after finishing it

Then it's not just me It is a good read, by all means, but still, I think I might have had too big expectations. Anyway, I am hoping to finally finish The 5 people you meet in heaven, I've got about 30 pages left and I can't seem to finish the darn book Not that it's bad, I just hate it when I've got a few pages left of a book and it takes me a week (or more) to finish.

It depends on how much time I've got, how tired I am, and of course on what I'm reading. Usually when I'm on holiday I read the most, 2,3 hours a day, or even more. Again, it depends on what I have to do that day. In the other part of the year, I read during study breaks to let my brain relax from 10 mins, to 1 hour. On average I'd say I read (non uni stuff) about an hour a day, but of course there are days when I don't read at all, or spend even more time reading.

^^That usually happens to me when I go to the library during the summer, because you're allowed to borrow more books than usual, and for a longer period of time. So all of the good ones are out, and the ones left are either crappy, or good but have already been read Have read 50ish pages of The book thief, and have got about as much till the end of The 5 people you meet in heaven

Thank you, I hope so too. Catch 22 is usually considered a classic, sort of. Not maybe in the Shakespeare/Austen/Dickens/Balzac/Tolstoy kind of way but a must read lets say. So I decided to read it for the sake of my serious-reader-ness. If such a thing exists So far The book thief seems to be a fast read, pretty straight forward, although I have a feeling it still hasn't started to be as...I dunno, extraordinary as everyone's described it. I mean, for a book over 500 pages long, maybe I should expect it to be a bit slow for the first 50 pages, it certainly does have enough space/time to evolve :eek2: Of course, it's also possible that I've created a certain expectation of it being unbelievably fantastic by the comments of everyone else, that nothing can live up to it I dunno, I just dunno...On with the reading, and we'll see what happens.

Thanks Yeah, tell me about it. I'm going to try to avoid them for a while now, until I at least finish these 4 So far I've heard nothing but good things about The book thief, so I'm really excited about it.

How could you even doubt that ?

Brida is the title of a book by Paulo Coelho, and I wanted my username to be the name of a character from a book I liked

Isn't it obvious?

Went to the library today and picked up 1. The book thief 2. Catch 22 3. Ghost children 4. The Gaudi key all of which are on my tbr list. Now I don't know what to start with I tried Ghost children but I'm not in the mood for it right now so I'm gonna start TBT along with The 5 people... I'm currently reading. Libraries are mean. They just make you borrow more books and mess up your *reading* plans

I've also only read The Inferno, in highschool. It certainly isn't a light read , but our teacher always made a sort of introduction and explanation when we were reading/discussing books, so I guess that made it simpler (Thank you btw )

Your lover's nerve - Mando Diao

Thank you all for your posts, I've actually started reading 1984 last month, but it destracted me from studying so I had to stop xD And The 5 people... has been interesting so far. He's about to meet the 3rd person now, don't know who to expect I like the whole seeing a story from 2 different points of view theme, it's so true that sometimes we just think about otherselves and fail to notice how our actions affect other people. As for The lovely bones, the sadness is what appeals to me the most. I sometimes don't understand why I like reading books that are sad and make me feel emotional even though they're fiction I guess I'm just masochistic...

Why does the wind - Tracey Thorn

Thanks, most of the ones listed are there because of the BCF Any in particular you want to mention...?

...thread about books. I though I'd give this reading list/log thing a go, though I know it won't be updated as often as most of the others. Books of 2010 (Goodreads) Books of 2011: - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - Starter for Ten by David Nicholls - A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon - On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan - The Rich Boy by F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Waste Lands and other Poems by T.S.Eliot - The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami - The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke - Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - Amsterdam by Ian McEwan TBP CHALLENGE - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon - South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami The Remains of 2011 TBR: 1. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 2. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan 3. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan 4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon 5. A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe 6. Snow by Orhan Pamuk 7. Dead Famous by Ben Elton 8. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 10. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 11. Life & Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee Feel free to comment, ask, tell, recommend etc

I've finally taken a look at the list, and I've read about 15 books from the ones mentioned; compared to the total number - LOL. Anyway, I've noticed The Divine Comedy as well as Inferno by Dante listed, as far as I remeber Inferno is a part of The Divine Comedy so it does make the list shorter

I'm reading The 5 people you meet in heaven, which I bought a week or 2 before. Funny, I didn't expect it to be so short. I don't know why

I'm affraid I haven't watched The Family Guy at all, so I don't know whether that's a good thing or not

My faves are Amelie (yes I'm too lazy to write the whole title), Goodbye Lenin, The Piano, Dirty Dancing Iiiiiiiii've haaaaaaaad the time of my li-i-ifeeeeee The ones that come to mind.

Lucky you! Hi and welcome!