June 05, 2006
Bookworm
Yesterday I spent 9 straight hours reading. It was so lovely. I sat on top of the railing surrounding my tiny "garden" with a pillow in the sun and read 2 books. Actually the first one, Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho (of The Alchemist fame) was a bloody good read so if anyone else has a few hours they need to kill, get onto it. The second book wasn't quite so challenging but still better than the alternative plan for yesterday; cleaning. On Saturday I went to the library in Okayama and signed up and borrowed 10 books which were terribly fun to haul home on the train. It is a good library, a massive English book section and heaps of computers with internet access. They are closed for the next 2 weeks for inventory though which is why I borrowed so much paper! Probably I should be spending some more time studying Japanese rather than reading in English... but sometimes I just get sick of it and want to be able to understand something immediately with little effort.
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Is the alchemist the book about the guy who goes down into the atmosphere of the planet in a ship. Or is that some other book with the same title.
I haven't actually read The Alchemist so I couldn't tell you! I just recognised his name from the promotional stuff for that book. I had the vague idea it was about a boy who travels in the desert and meets this random stranger or something...
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