Happy New Year 2012! Recap for 2010-2011

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation...

These have been a few incredibly busy years. Between work and school (etc. etc. etc. – and the unexpected whirlwind into the unknown, which I’d like to explain but simply can’t find the words to do it).  I’ve hardly had the time to keep up with my reading and the many wonderful choices on my list. Plus, new ones show up all the time and I have to drop what I’m doing and go with the flow. This means, I have quite the stack of unfinished novels on my bookshelf.

These include:

1984: More eyeballs. I got to page 66 and then I’m not quite sure what happened, but I have to say how I felt about the novel then is different from how I feel about it now. Not quite as literal as one would think - more symbolic, maybe? Maybe Orwell was going through his own whirlwind, but hey, who really knows. And recently I had to go back and read about room 101 – where you are tested against your worst possible fear.

Dracula and Oryx and Crake

Biology of Belief: Basically, our environment makes us who we are, not just our genes. “The mechanisms by which DNA controls biological life became the central dogma (I love that word, or creed is even better) of molecular biology, painstakingly spilled out in textbooks”. It challenges some of Darwin’s ideas and gives credit to Lamarck (moving 'up' a ladder of progress). There’s other stuff too. I’m not the most scientific person, to say the least (nor do I want to be) but Biology of Belief was easy to follow and fascinating.

I do hope to one day finish them all – it’s just that I’m not great at restarting novels I haven’t finished. Plus, some of them have to go back to the library before I get arrested.

I WAS able to get through a few novels, though: 2011 and 2010

One of my favourites was: The Forty Rules of Love - Elif Shafak – so beautiful!

I look forward to what the New Year will bring, and hope to harness my skill of attracting the right book at the right time and finish some great choices (esp. some gifts - mostly romantic novels from my very special cousin that have been eagerly waiting on my bookshelf).

And, although I have not perfected the art of blogging {yet} - and I’m not sure if anyone even reads my posts - I would still like to say THANK YOU and HAPPY NEW YEAR to anyone who may!