The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones… -William Shakespeare Imagine reading a book filled with quotes, anecdotes, and plots from Shakespeare’s masterpieces!
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I picked up “The Zahir” before leaving Tokyo airport in September. Paulo Coelho is a new author, the story line sounded adventurous and I had precious few options in the “English” or rather, foreign book section. I started reading it in Hawaii on vacation and finished it in the course of two days. Here is [...]
It is best to be reading Wuthering Heights in the cold of winter. Perhaps when and where we read our classics and our favorite novels makes them particularly memorable to us years from now. I read Emily Brontë’s brilliant singular novel this winter, a few days short of Christmas. I already knew the story, all [...]
In “What happened to Anna K.?“, Irina Reyn gives us the life of Anna Karenina in a new light. Reyn’s writing and story-telling was simply riveting. This brilliant young author had me captivated and glued to her book from page one. Reyn’s writing style is remarkable for such a new novelist. Her spellbinding way of [...]
Jane Austen’s masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice, is an epic novel, and no review or praise of this book, including mine, will yield it justice or measure the genius of the author behind it. There have been countless reviews of Jane Austen’s writing style and epic novels. What else can I say that has not been [...]
Reading “Angels and Demons“ in Italy added the intangible that makes reading a novel just right. Dan Brown‘s Robert Langdon, the famous Harvard symbologist, is out to solve a mystery about an ancient brotherhood called the Illuminati. The discovery of the existence of Illuminati, through a careful study of a genuine mark left on the [...]
I am not a history buff. I had no particular reason to read the “Timeline” other than Michael Crichton wrote it. I am very happy I followed my notion. I read the first 50 pages two months ago, forgot all about it, and then picked it up to keep me company on some long flights. [...]
Oh it is ever so to forget this book is fiction when it has been a true story a hundred times over for countless Iranian women who have left Iran in hopes of a better life. Either they find the suitable spouse with a green card in Iran or else they move in with family [...]
“The Da Vinci code” is pure genius – whether we care to entertain Dan Brown‘s premise on this foundation of Christianity as anything beyond fiction, we must admit that it is a work of a genius that creates not merely a fantastic novel with countless sold copies, but also substantial commotion in the Christian world, [...]
Joseph Finder does it again – a corporate thriller sent directly to my house, the Advanced Reader’s Edition of “Power Play“. This is one of the perks of being a fan of Joseph Finder. The book is due out in August 2007 and I have already finished it as of July. The silly race is [...]
If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it. – Akio Morita I was first introduced to Michael Crichton by complete accident when my husband brought “Travels“ to our Hawaii vacation and I promptly stole it away for my own reading pleasure. Or perhaps more accurately put, Crichton stole me away from all [...]
Sometimes we all have a bad day. Sometimes a really bad day. When I had one of those really bad days a few weeks ago, I needed a big distraction. I picked up Finder’s Company Man and delved into yet another of his thrilling corporate dramas. In comparing Finder’s novels, I enjoyed High Crimes best, [...]
If only Global Warming clearly meant what it spells out, we could at least agree to disagree about the same issue. If it still meant, as it did initially, the slow and steady warming of the globe as a direct result of man’s interference with nature, perhaps we could be legitimately concerned, albeit a tad [...]
What is it like to be a CEO of a company? I have wondered about this question for as long as I have dreamt to be in the position of a Chief Executive someday, somehow, somewhere. Ambitions of a current phase I suppose. The more I read, the more I realize that this lofty ambition, [...]
“We All Fall Down” was a slow start until I started to come up to speed on the British health care system, the associated deep-rooted problems and the bottlenecks in the general hospital system. I did not know the one single factor in keeping hospitals from serving the next patient is shortage of beds. As [...]
My Finder fan phase started with his less popular work, “Paranoia“, where he weaves a story about a particular Silicon Valley high tech corporation, one dear to my heart. I found I really like Finder’s writing style and story-telling voice. “High Crimes” is no doubt one of his most popular works, in no small tribute [...]
If you do not work there, you will not see it! Joseph Finder’s Paranoia is not just a fun corporate thriller out of the author’s wildest imagination. It is a story that has uncanny resemblance to the operation, set-up, corporate culture and technologies of the Fortune 500 workplace, Cisco Sytems. The names are altered poorly [...]
Do our book choices define us in some shape or form? I wonder if I should restrict my reading to only best sellers and classics that are impossible to disappoint. It would be a shame to have such a small window into the world of books. I certainly would have never come across one of [...]
