Books

I am reading alot. Last week when I was visiting Amber, she gave me a couple of books that she really liked. I read Molika'i by Alan Brennert in a few days. I could not put it down. It's a wonderful historical novel about the Leper colony on the island. I highly recommend this book if for no other reason that to remind us all how lucky we are to live in this day and age.



I have just started the second book she gave me called Life of Pi . The first thing I read was the author's bio and I liked him immediately:

Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963 of Canadian parents. He grew up in Costa Rica, France, Mexico and Canada. After studying philosophy at university, he worked variously as a dishwasher, tree planter, and security guard. Then he began to write. When he is not living somewhere else, he lives in Montreal.

How could I not read this book after that bio. The book starts with the author's note of how he came to write the book and I was hooked. He tells us that the story will make anyone believe in God, we shall see. I am about 50 pages in and find his writing style to be very descriptive with long, long sentences and lots of commas. Sometimes I have to read the sentence again just to remember what he was talking about in the beginning, but it's OK, so far so good.



I am hoping you all have a wonderful day!