Recent Reading

With all my free time in March (on the couch, being sick), I managed to read several books in the last month. Rather than try to provide a true synopsis or analysis, here are a few thoughts:

• Bagdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq - a collection of posts from a mid-20s worldly Iraqi female who provides an 'on the ground' perspective of the American occupation. Excellent read, educational for us Westerners, and the dialogue continues on her live blog.
• The Closed Circle: I borrowed this from my flatmate's shelf. It was a quick, but involved, read about the entwined lives of lifetime friends in London.
• The Kite Runner: I couldn't put this book down. I even stayed up one night until 4:30am to get to the end. Luckily, I was home sick that week, so I could afford to sleep past noon the next day.
• Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: This book was promising. It's about punctuation, and written with the self-aware humour that I can relate to with my own obsessions. I think the problem is that punctuation isn't one of them. I know the basics, I consider myself to have above average competency, but even this book/author was too extreme for me. I couldn't absorb the humour as intended.

For my upcoming trip to the U.S. for Easter, I just purchased Come Back to Afghanistan and Nanotales by Ziv Navoth which I can't find on Amazon. I am reading through Nanotales fairly quickly as I commute to/from West Hampstead and Canary Wharf. In particular on Tuesday, when I traveled back and forth twice in an effort to retrieve my wallet that I essentially left on the front porch. I was amazed that it was still there with all contents intact when I frantically returned; it had sat there for an hour in full view of everyone walking by on the sidewalk. I am such a scatter-brain sometimes, but I never used to be...what's happening to me?