How am I? Happy as can be.
I thought I would start keeping a list of what I want to share with you. I’ve been reading a lot of books lately. I finished Waiting to be Heard by Amanda Knox, the American college girl who spent 4 years in the Italian jail for murdering her British roommate. Very interesting. I assumed she was guilty but wanted to know the story behind it because there are always not 2 sides to a story, but 3. Anyway, I now understand what happened and I do believe she was robbed of 4 years of her life. AND… I think the moral of the story is we let young people do whatever they want at too young an age. An American friend I met here recently told me a story of when she was 17, just finished High School and she went to Europe. Ended up being deported from Amsterdam, they sent her to Heathrow Airport for a flight back to the US, but she didn’t have the money for the ticket so her father had to wire her the money. He wired it to the wrong airport so a week later she is still sitting at the airport waiting for the money! She finally called him and got the money sent to the right place. But 17 years old she was deported from the Netherlands, I wasn’t allowed to spend the night at a friend’s house at that age.
I read Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, which I just read in Time Magazine was the #1 Summer Read last year. And Tina Fey’s Bossypants. I got these books downloaded when I was in Africa. One of the young people had a Barnes & Nobles’ Nook like me and she gave me almost 40 books on my Nook. I’m not fussy when it comes to reading, I mean if I start reading a book and it really bores me I would stop but if I’m just reading to pass the time, I will read most anything, fiction, non-fiction, murder mysteries...
Another book I read (a book, not an ebook) was Robin Cook’s Foreign Body. It was very good with its insights on India. I could not describe a ride in an auto rickshaw the way he does, and lots of other Indian descriptions like the new hospital down the street from a mountain of garbage. So if you would like to read a medical murder mystery book that tells you a little bit more about India, consider finding this book to read.
I still have lots more to read but I don’t know anything about them until I start reading them. If you have read a good book lately, please let me know what it was and I’ll see if it is one of the 30 something books that were downloaded for me.
I’ll going to close for now.
I look forward to hearing from some of you.
Love,
Marie
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