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What happens when the line between fiction and reality becomes all-too slim? Discuss!
Books are based on real life situations. Some are so real that we instantly identify with them. However, in most books, the ending is positive, Everything sorts itself out. However, reality is not like that. For natural or man made catastrophes, there is always a tragedy of gigantic proportions. And that can't be sorted out. Not the way we wish it or want it. I do't think fiction can be taken as reality. The line is always there even though it might get blurred!
Literary Blog Hop is hosted by The Blue Bookcase. If you features book reviews of literary fiction, classic literature, and general literary discussion, you too can join in!
This week's question is:
What one literary work must you read before you die?
For starters, I am not in a hurry to die! And I have read most of the Classics in while I was in High school and college. The ones I left out I don't really want to read.
But yes, I will speak of poetry here. I want to read all the works of the following poets, not in any particular order:
1) W. B. Yeats
2) Percy B. Shelley
3) Robert Burns
4) Robert Browning
5) Lord Byron
6) John Clare
7) John Keats
8) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
9) Robert Frost
10) Sylvia Plath
There are lot more. Of course, I have read many too. Poetry for me is like breathing to live!
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week, we get a theme to list our top tens.
This week is all about those characters in books that we wish were in our family!
I wish those following characters to be in my family:
1) LEE from East of Eden by John Steinbeck: I think he is one of best character in the book. He is unlike any other servant. He himself says that a servant can be the master of the man he is serving. But we never see him imposing on Adam Trask at any place. He is more of a family to them than anyone else. He is the one who brings up Cal and Aron single handedly. It is he who keeps them together. He is practical, down to earth and lots of philosophy going inside him.
2) LIESEL from The Book Thief by Marcus Zusack: As a daughter. She is spunky, responsible and very lovable.
3) HANS THOMAS of The Solitaire Mystery by Jostien Gaarder: As a son who brings fantasy and mystery in our lives. Who helps is in merging reality with mysticism.
"The blood was definitely female."
"Female...What age?"
~Page 125
Title: Therapy
Author: Sebastian Fitzek
ISBN: 9780330453158
Publisher: Pan Books/2008
Pages: 293
It is as if 12 year old Josephine did not exist. She disappears without a trace from her doctor's clinic without a trace. Her father, a well known psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, searches for her and leaves his practice, goes to live in a remote North Sea Island. It is the only way he can deal with his loss. And he is also drifting apart from his wife.
A beautiful woman, Anna Glass, a writer of children's fiction, come to visit him and wants him treat her for her rare form of schizophrenia. Her characters in her novel come to life for her and she does not understand that. Dr Larenz finds her story intriguing and reluctantly agrees to treat her as he somehow finds resemblance between one of her characters with Josie. He has to know more, and only by knowing the ending of her story, he might get to know about her disappearance.
Viktor's grief, his obsession to know more, keeps us hooked to this novel. The enigmatic Anna, we want to know more about her. She appears real and yet unreal. Viktor is warned against her but he can't let her go as he can't let go off Josie. Listening to her story, he believes Anna is somehow responsible for her disappearance.
The reader feels for Viktor, his desperation to find anything about his much loved daughter. The interaction between Anna and Viktor keeps the reader wanting more. And when we finally get to the end, it leaves us completely blown out of our mind. Therapy is a novel one can't put down without finishing from start to finish. I would definitely recommend this and look forward to read more by the author.
I completed one novel, Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek 
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"Anything Goes on Saturday" is a meme hosted by Yvonne of Socrates' Book Reviews. It's a chance to choose any topic you want and talk about it on Saturday - it can be about a book, TV show, movie, a recipe or just an update on your week. Whatever you choose.
Here I would like to ask something. Most of us have Facebook and Twitter accounts. We network via one or maybe both, in addition to blogging. I, for one, use Facebook to keep in touch with my old school and college friends. I don't twitter. I do have a account but never post anything, i.e., do not twitter! I find it a nuisance. Who is really interested in what I am doing every second of my life?! Nor am I interested to know anyone else's! And I have found people posting about when their dog/cat poo-ed etc etc. Is it what we have come too? Why should want to know that?
Blogging for me is important. It keeps me in touch with books, or poetry. And about people who are like-minded. I would prefer blogging to Facebook/Twitter any day!
How about you? What interests you most? Blogging, Facebook or Twitter?
As the thirtieth minute ticked by, he knew he would never see his daughter again. Josephine had opened the door, glanced around briefly and slipped inside the old man's office.
Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek
Right now I find it totally engrossing. It has the potential for a great thriller.
Follow Friday, is hosted by ParaJunkee, Book Blogger Hop, is hosted by Jennifer (Crazy-For-Books), and
Follow Friday 40 and over is hosted by Java
Jennifer asks, "If I gave you £50 (or $80) and sent you into a bookshop right now, what would be in your basket when you finally staggered to the till?"
My basket would be filled with Crime Fiction novels and a few poetry books. What else? Let me first have the money!
Do feel free to explore my blog. You will definitely find something that interests you as I read wide range of genres, except maybe for a few. I also write poetry. You can read that on my other blog, rooted. Now go, explore both of my blogs! And follow them, if you like!! I follow blogs I like via Google Reader...
Enjoy!
Do you multi-task when you read? Do other things like stirring things on the stove, brushing your teeth, watching television, knitting, walking, et cetera?
I listen to music while reading. Other than that I can't do much. Yes, while travelling by train, I can read or in waiting rooms but that isn't multi-tasking. Previously, I could watch TV along with reading but not now.
I wish I could do so many things while reading, but I can't. What about you?
