Book 2: Emma Donoghue: "Room"

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My next book is a book club read.But it's not what I wanted to start with. I just watched "The social network" movie. It's part of my catching up with the last years "unseen movies list". It has been nominated for the Oscars for the best picture. It took me long time to get myself to see it. "Computers?" -I thought, what on earth can you say about it and make it into a movie? Well, how mistaken was I.I watched the piece more from the social point of view.It was about a computer genius,a hacker.OK, you must be exceptionally talented to do this stuff but what kind of life is that? In front of the screen? I'm thinking about the Matrix scene:remember the white rabbit. Neo was a hacker, he was powerful, but he lived in a hole-nothing fabulous or interesting (from my point of view,to be clear )about it. He lived in numbers. Is it that some people are destined to crack THE CODE? By saying CODE I mean the way the world works, are we just numbers? I once saw a movie that said: when you crack THE CODE the two worlds become one.Ours and of the other side. Probably... I don't know about the Oscars though: I didn't see all the nominated movies: just The kids are all right and the Inception and including Social network it's 3 out of ten. I will say more when I see them all.

Yesterday I went to the book club. It's always so nice to meet up and talk about the same book. About what you liked and what shocked you. We talked about "The slap", the book that takes place in Australia. As I read, I was really interested in the way of living there.Once, we thought about moving there for a while.Now, I'm glad we didn't. Bottom line:Europe is Europe and I love Ireland so much that I would cry like crazy if moving out of here. No way Jose.
Well, going back to the book...I was quite shocked when I started to read the first few pages. From the first glance it seemed that the book is about a childhood (that's actually the truth, because the main character is a 5 year old boy, and the story is told from his perspective) but it's a very particular childhood. The mother of the child has been held captive for the number of years by an evil man. She has his child during that time. Both mother and a baby are kept in a confined space, the child doesn't know that there is a world outside the telly...I just started but I can imagine that the book will be unputdownable.
Good night for now my Friends. Now I have to go to bed and have some sleep. Tomorrow is another adventure with Nataniel. Today he started to do yoga exercises and he wants us to repeat after him. He learned that from The Waybuloo:) and his Polish"Chodz!" became Englishw "Come on!"now.

January bliss

Books I've read since the last update:

Book Nine: Andrew M.Greeley "Irish gold"...a book I've read in Wroclaw, borrowed from my father...he reads everything on Ireland...well, me too:). It's about an American who comes to Dublin to discover a secret behind his grandparent's escape to the States from Cork in 1920's. Nice read and a couple of interesting things I learned about history and Dublin.

Book Ten:Cecelia Ahern: "The book of Tomorrow"...another warm and magical book about family relations.

Book Eleven: Muriel Barbery: "The Elegance of The Hedgehog"...the most elegant and subtle expressions on art and the meaning of life.Is life without higher,pristine moments of rituals, music, literature just the sequence of getting out of bed, washing the dishes, doing the daily rutine?...Without art... are we different from the primates?

Book Twelve: Christos Tsiolkas: "The slap"...living in Australia from the Greek expat's point of view. Very interesting insight into the world of a Greek family.

In 2011 I'm reading everything on Sicily. We greeted the New Year with the first part of The Godfather so it sounded tempting to buy tickets to Trapani for two weeks in May and June. I'm so excited about this trip that I already read 2 guides and another one is waiting on my night table.

See you next time.