Reagan (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} adrateia) wrote in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} 50bookchallenge,@ 2007-09-17 18:33:00 |
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Book #31
1. Rosalie Ham – The Dressmaker (296pg)
2. Hugh Laurie – The Gun Seller (340pg)
3. William Styron – Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (84pg)
4. Mark Z. Danielewski – House of Leaves (656pg)
5. Stephen Fry – QI: The Book of General Ignorance (282pg)
6. Stephen King – Different Seasons (560pg)
7. Thomas Hardy – Tess of the d’Urbervilles (449pg)
8. Philippa Gregory – The Constant Princess (486pg)
9. Thomas Harris – Hannibal Rising (323pg)
10. Albert Camus – The Fall (108pg)
11. Milan Kundera – Identity (153pg)
12. Stephen Fry – The Liar (277pg)
13. Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (180pg)
14. Douglas Adams – The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (200pg)
15. Douglas Adams – Life, the Universe and Everything (199pg)
16. Douglas Adams – So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (167pg)
17. Douglas Adams – Mostly Harmless (230pg)
18. Matt Lucas, David Walliams & Boyd Hilton – Inside Little Britain (406pg)
19. Evelyn Waugh – Vile Bodies (189pg)
20. Gregory Maguire – Wicked (495pg)
21. Stephen Fry – The Hippopotamus (400pg)
22. Mark Gatiss – The Vesuvius Club (240pg)
23. Douglas Coupland – Eleanor Rigby (249pg)
24. Chuck Palahniuk – Invisible Monsters (297pg)
25. Arlene J. Chai – Black Hearts (406pg – reread)
26. Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being (320pg – reread)
27. Jonathan Safran Foer – Everything Is Illuminated (276pg)
28. Audrey Niffenegger – The Time Traveler’s Wife (518pg)
29. Mark Gatiss – The Devil In Amber (248pg)
30. Stephen Fry – Paperweight (470pg)
Paulo Coelho – The Witch of Portobello (230pg)
Synopsis
Paulo Coelho, one of the world's best loved storytellers, is back with a riveting new novel set in London This is the story of Athena, or Sherine, to give her the name she was baptised with. Her life is pieced together through a series of recorded interviews with those people who knew her well or hardly at all -- parents, colleagues, teachers, friends, acquaintances, her ex-husband. The novel unravels Athena's mysterious beginnings, via an orphanage in Romania, to a childhood in Beirut. When war breaks out, her adoptive family move with her to London, where a dramatic turn of events occurs! Athena, who has been dubbed 'the Witch of Portobello' for her seeming powers of prophecy, disappears dramatically, leaving those who knew her to solve the mystery of her life and abrupt departure. This gripping new novel is filled with the themes Paulo fans know and love: spirituality, relationships, destiny, freedom.
Thoughts
This book nearly moved me to tears (the only book that has ever managed to make me cry was The Amber Spyglass). It was a completely inspirational story and I found it near impossible to put down. I felt connected to Athena, and her story was truly an unforgettable one. I think I see the world differently now, and it makes me want to live my life in such a different way. I found this story, which I kept hoping wasn’t fiction but an autobiography, to make me feel so calm. I saw her having so much freedom with all that she did and I very much want to experience what she did. Coelho has amazed me with the few of his novels that I’ve read and this one was definitely the one that connected with me the most. He’s done it again, he never fails to inspire.
Now Reading
32. The League of Gentlemen’s Book of Precious Things (239pg)
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31 / 50 (62.0%) |
