I love reading. It’s probably one of the best influences I got
from my mom’s side, the Abellas. And because I share the same hobby with my
aunts especially, I have the privilege of acquiring books from best-selling
authors without spending a single centavo.
From time to time, my auntie Linda sends a package full of books she’s done with. It would usually contain the latest from Iles,
Baldacci, Higgins Clark, Patterson and my all-time favorite, Grisham.
Fortunately, I work from home so when all tasks are done for
the day, I still have enough time and energy to go over the shelves and find a
good read.
There is nothing like the experiences brought about by the
world of Fiction. John Grisham had made me want to become a lawyer at some
point in my life. Paulo Coelho’s Pilgrimage and James Redfield’s The Celestine
Prophecy have taken me to places I have never been. And I will never forget how
I cried over the last line of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, “For you, a
thousand times over.”
I want you to experience the same. And so I will start
writing some posts on books that I have read, enjoyed and liked; books that had
me inspired and motivated.
I’ll start with the one which I just finished today - The Three Weissmanns of Westport.
Betty Weissmann has just been dumped by her husband of forty-eight years. Exiled from her elegant New York apartment by her husband's mistress, she and her two middle-aged daughters, Miranda and Annie, regroup in a run-down Westport, Connecticut, beach cottage. In Schines, playful and devoted homage to Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, the impulsive sister is Miranda, a literary agent entangled in a series of scandals, and the more pragmatic sister is Annie, a library director, who feels compelled to move in and watch over her capricious mother and sister.
Let me know some of your favorite books. Post your comments. Enjoy reading!
