Lately I’ve surrendered to the work of two current female writers whose best-selling books are absolutely worth reading. Due to university influences, I was so used to reading classic literature that I’d despise any kind of trendy-fashion-everybody’s reading kind of book. However, such extreme decision has gradually changed.
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love has sold million copies worldwide and has been translated for more than 36 languages. After hearing Higor and Débora commenting on it (thanks guys!) and searching for it on the Internet, I decided to read it and for my surprise it definitely enchanted me. It’s about the author’s personal memories and search for peace, well-being and God during her trips to Italy, India and Indonesia, after years of a troubled marriage and a devastating divorce. It’s a smooth, funny and involving kind of narrative which makes you keep on reading as much as possible. What I most admire about it is the way it leads you to think your life over through Gilbert’s experiences. You might not have traveled to the places she visited or you might not have been married yet, but you can entirely sympathize with her pain, findings, urges and wishes since they can be found within each human being’s life journey.
Helen Fielding’s Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination is the book I’m reading now and I recommend it. It tells the story of a British journalist whose overactive imagination makes her suspect she’s just met a member of Al-Qaeda disguised as a French playboy. Even though, she’s in love with him, she cannot trust him since her life seems to be at stake. As a matter of fact, she doesn’t even know if he’s a dangerous person or if her imagination is playing with her. It’ll certainly attract anyone who’s interested in adrenaline and laughter all packed up in a comic adventure narrative. Fielding is famous for Bridget Jones’s Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of the Reason, her two best-sellers which confirm her talent and irreverence when creating comic real modern heroines.
Hence, these are my two reading suggestions. Besides all the fuzz around the millions of copies they’ve sold, the fame achieved by their authors and the fact that they deal with the ‘female world’, they are really must read books for everyone, especially for the ones who are willing to have an interesting and fun reading time.
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love has sold million copies worldwide and has been translated for more than 36 languages. After hearing Higor and Débora commenting on it (thanks guys!) and searching for it on the Internet, I decided to read it and for my surprise it definitely enchanted me. It’s about the author’s personal memories and search for peace, well-being and God during her trips to Italy, India and Indonesia, after years of a troubled marriage and a devastating divorce. It’s a smooth, funny and involving kind of narrative which makes you keep on reading as much as possible. What I most admire about it is the way it leads you to think your life over through Gilbert’s experiences. You might not have traveled to the places she visited or you might not have been married yet, but you can entirely sympathize with her pain, findings, urges and wishes since they can be found within each human being’s life journey.
Helen Fielding’s Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination is the book I’m reading now and I recommend it. It tells the story of a British journalist whose overactive imagination makes her suspect she’s just met a member of Al-Qaeda disguised as a French playboy. Even though, she’s in love with him, she cannot trust him since her life seems to be at stake. As a matter of fact, she doesn’t even know if he’s a dangerous person or if her imagination is playing with her. It’ll certainly attract anyone who’s interested in adrenaline and laughter all packed up in a comic adventure narrative. Fielding is famous for Bridget Jones’s Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of the Reason, her two best-sellers which confirm her talent and irreverence when creating comic real modern heroines.
Hence, these are my two reading suggestions. Besides all the fuzz around the millions of copies they’ve sold, the fame achieved by their authors and the fact that they deal with the ‘female world’, they are really must read books for everyone, especially for the ones who are willing to have an interesting and fun reading time.
Hope you enjoy them!
Ana Paula Biazon Rocha – CPE 2 – Mornings
Ana Paula Biazon Rocha – CPE 2 – Mornings
Ana! Thanks for your suggestions!
ReplyDeleteI'm really interested in reading those books now!
I've seen so many people on the subways reading "Eat Pray Love" that I kind of lost my interested, but you've made me recover it!
Also, I've read Bridget Jones 1 and 2 and I loved so probably this next book from Fielding is also good!!
Thanks again!!
See you on Friday!!!
Alline