Brida was originally published in the Portuguese language, right after The Alchemist. It has been recently translated into English. For those who might not be aware, Brida has already been adapted to the silver screen with a Portuguese movie released in 1998 with the same name.
It makes interesting reading to delve into the mindset of people from various walks of life, who talk about Athena, as they knew her, and as she influenced some aspect(s) in their life. It’s almost like reading pages from the personal diaries of these people, and it goes a long way in holding your attention.
She also explores smaller, more marginal traditions, including Goenka’s Vipassana meditation camp, the Parsis in Mumbai, and the now-fading Bene Israel Jewish community. She mentions Varanasi in her travelogue, Osho Rajnish’s sex-cult, and provides information on Jain culture.
While this may intercept a distinct sense of satisfaction or a lingering feeling of “Who Dunit?” that reading a thriller or murder mystery usually entails, there is definitely no sense of disappointment. In fact it is to the author’s credit to have interwoven so many details and characters with such finesse that the novel’s climax seems highly plausible.
With technology and genetic engineering playing an important role in the events of the novel, the skeptic reader can find a reason to read this book. The author has tried to objectively treat the subject of Christ’s healing touch and presented a practical vision for comprehending a New Messiah in the context of the New Age.
I self-doubted my intelligence. The world was going gaga over Ayn Rand. I was irritated by “her philosophy”. Something was really wrong with the intellectual lobe of my brain!!
The tryst between faith, belief, empirical research and scientific enquiry has remained encrusted in our psyche and our socio-political fabric since time immemorial. While the characters debate on the existence of God and scientific practicality, the author has summarized the entire human quest in one word – Immortality.
I am reading Astral Travel for Beginners by Richard Webster. (You can read some scanned chapters from the book at: http://books.google.co.in) I have always been drawn towards esoteric subjects and crave for knowing about the off-beat. I saw a copy of the book at the local bookseller, and purchased it because of the torn cover for peanuts.
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I have added another romantic classic set in the time of the American Civil War, but then this is another great book on the strength of the female spirit in times of war. I read the unabridged version of the book, as a teenager and I instantly fell in love with the medieval lifestyle
As a “feline” reader I have particularly enjoyed reading some books. The books fall in various genre of writing from Chic-Lit, to globally applauded Classics. The list does not follow any “read first:” sort order and is a very random listing that I would suggest most women to definitely pick up and read at some point of time. How well the book goes down with a reader is supremely defined by the “current frame of mind” and thus, I have added my own views on each book, to help in the selection of “the right book, at the right time”.
I grew up on fairy tales and fables. They instilled my fertile mind with the power of imagination and an incessant love for reading. Even today, I love to talk about these fairy tales and their magical world.
Beautiful childhood memories are sub-consciously associated with the fairy tales that I heard as a child. [...]
“Mahabharta” or the “Great Book of Bharata” was initially a Poem of Triumph (Jaya) and later grew to magnificent proportions, from the tale of Bharata, to the “Maha” tale of the descendents of Bharata and their family feud.