If you have read a book and then see the film, most often they are dissapointing.  Hmmmm...Splendid Suns....sounds like a must read.

I have to admit though, much of my reading depends of what I find of interest at garage sales.  Both my last two reads were garage sale finds.  I much prefer paying $1 than $15 or $20 for a good book, although I do break down and order hardbacks of ones I particularly want to read.

Terry Prachett was recently diagnosed with Alzheimers, did you know that?  He sounds like a very interesting man.  I really should read some of his works sometime.  I spent a whole winter one year reading Edgar Rice Burroughs...it was wonderful. 

"Alzheimer´s disease

In August 2007 Pratchett was misdiagnosed as having had a minor stroke in 2004 or 2005, which was believed to have damaged the right side of his brain. While his motor skills had been affected, the observed damage had not impaired his ability to write (or at least no one noticed the difference).On 11 December 2007 Pratchett posted online that he had been newly diagnosed with a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer´s disease, which he said "lay behind this year´s phantom ´stroke´." He has a rare form of the disease called posterior cortical atrophy, in which areas at the back of the brain begin to shrink and shrivel. Pratchett appealed to people to "keep things cheerful", and proclaimed that "we are taking it fairly philosophically down here and possibly with a mild optimism."

I just tried watching this movie the other night.  It sadly lasted 10 minutes..I have a real problem watching a film I have to read, what they are saying.

Hooray-good for you! (and LIR)

Minaret by Leila Aboulela

wonderful read in which the author shows totally different face of Islam  from pictures and prejudices westerners have in mind.

She writes about filling emptiness with choices,finding identity in multicultural societies and about faith in life.A compulsory read for all who claim to know all about Muslims

 Sounds very interesting...I´ll have to read it myself...

Stiff

The curious life of human cadavers

by Mary Roach

It was certainly interesting.  I heard inverviews with the author numerous times, and thought it sounded interesting.  Still, it´s not something I probably would have bought, given the subject, but I found it during one of my garage sale adventures being sold for one dollar. How could I resist?

Anyone who is thinking about making a donation of their own cadaver would well benefit from reading this book.

for all dreamers-Eric Emmanuel Schmitt the dreamer from ostend-wonderful stories of those  and for those who are not afraid of dreams

1- "The Man Without Qualities" ,  " Niteliksiz Adam " by Robert Musil  ( 3 kitap )

Harikulade bir roman, 20.Yüzyýlýn ve modernizmin birkaç baþyapýtýndan biri, çok önemli bir baþucu kitabý...Kitap, roman sanatýný ortaya koymuþ. "Roman nasýl yazýlýr" diye soranlara güzel bir cevap.Bir roman severin okumasý gereken bir yapýt... 

2- "The Time Traveler´s Wife" ,  " Zaman Yolcusunun Karýsý "    by Adrey  Niffenegger

Romanda, zaman ötesi, metafizik yaþamda, ilginç ve hüzün verici bir aþk öyküsü anlatýlmaya çalýþýlmýþ.Bu roman sinemaya da uyarlanmýþ.

( Romanýn konusu ilginç ve iyi seçilmiþ; fakat akýcý ve rahat okunan bir yapýt deðil.)

3-"The Lost  Symbol" , " Son Sembol" , by Dan Brown

Din ve tarih içerikli Dan Brown romanlarýnýn sonuncusu.Brown´Ã½n en çok "Melekler ve Þeytanlar" romanýný beðenmiþtim.Din ve tarih içerikli roman okumayý sevenlere Brown´nýn bu son yapýtý  tavsiye edilebilir.

The Turkish postal system is getting better and better!  

The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto

and Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

iknow 7 languages but i perfer reading books in english and arabic

ilike Sheakspeer and Charles Dekineinz

ilike arabic poems and historybooks