Monday, May 22, 2006
Good books
I’m just thinking considering I might be bored at some point during my year-and-a-half abroad, has anybody read a good book lately? :) Fiction if possible, as I think we’ll all be head over feet with administrative and academic literature!
My family is pretty proud, and they understand why I spend 300$ in books and not a penny on clothes. :)
I’ve been watching way more movies than reading books recently, but I still try to make a top 5.
1) The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
2) The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
3) Anything by Eduardo Galeano and George Sand (Chopin's mistress! wow!)
4) The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
5) Cien Anos de Soledad, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There are three books I'm extremely looking forwards to read:
1) Vers le Sud, Daniel Lafferière
(On sex tourism. The other way around. Not rich executives going to South-East Asia, but on rich women going to Haiti to sleep with Black guys.
2) Jacques le Fataliste, Denis Diderot
(I read part of it in CÉGEP, the author is great at interpelling the reader. He is said to have invented a new type of narration).
3) Un dimanche à la Piscine de Kigali, Gil Courtemanche
(No explanation for that one. Apperently it's just divine)
My family is pretty proud, and they understand why I spend 300$ in books and not a penny on clothes. :)
I’ve been watching way more movies than reading books recently, but I still try to make a top 5.
1) The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
2) The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
3) Anything by Eduardo Galeano and George Sand (Chopin's mistress! wow!)
4) The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
5) Cien Anos de Soledad, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There are three books I'm extremely looking forwards to read:
1) Vers le Sud, Daniel Lafferière
(On sex tourism. The other way around. Not rich executives going to South-East Asia, but on rich women going to Haiti to sleep with Black guys.
2) Jacques le Fataliste, Denis Diderot
(I read part of it in CÉGEP, the author is great at interpelling the reader. He is said to have invented a new type of narration).
3) Un dimanche à la Piscine de Kigali, Gil Courtemanche
(No explanation for that one. Apperently it's just divine)