Comments on: My Summer Reading List

By: Tamara

Tamara — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:39:34 +0000

May I suggest another book? I guess that I will! It’s called “Busting Loose from the Money Game” and there is also “Busting Loose from the Business Game” if you are playing that one. Anyway, I just started reading your blog about Cancun because I have a friend who lives there. I’ll be glad to read more about your experience. As per these two books that I recommend, you created this reality in Cancun (pat yourself on the back for pulling off such an illusion) and you have full power to recreate your life. I’ve just launched into this next step in understanding the limitations I previously placed on myself and still appreciate how I did it! Wishing you the best.

By: RiverGirl

RiverGirl — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:24:07 +0000

Thanks for the book ideas, they are on the list now!!

By: Bustor

Bustor — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:44:10 +0000

Read “The Monk who sold his Ferrari” by author Robin Sharma.
A thin book but with a lot of thought provoking material.
You can purchase this book on internet too I think.Don’t go for Internet copies of this book.The actual book in your hands gives one the ‘real’ feel of the written matter and message of the book.

By: Cheri Head

Cheri Head — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:25:49 +0000

I recently read The Sum of Our Days by Isabelle Allende and really loved it. It made me want to go and read everything else she has written. Also, I just finished South of Broad, Pat Conroy’s latest book. I think Pat Conroy is one of the greatest living writers. His writing is so beautiful, and his stories are so dense. They make you laugh, cry and everything in between. One of his earliest books, Prince of Tides, is probably my favorite book of all time. (If you haven’t read the book, don’t just it by the movie, which was crap.)

By: RiverGirl

RiverGirl — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:28:33 +0000

Gary – That sounds good, I will definitely add it to the list.

Ellen – Thanks for the votes, I’m definitely going to push both of those books on the Book Club.

By: Working Gringa

Working Gringa — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:20:00 +0000

I’ll put in another vote for Shantaram… I loved that book.

Reading Water for Elephants now and enjoying it… maybe more so because I just loved an obscure TV series called Carnival and it reminds me of that.

Thanks for the reference to The End of Poverty. Will go look for that (on my iPhone Kindle!)

By: Gary Denness

Gary Denness — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:22:44 +0000

It has some very depressing moments, but there’s plenty of uplifting stories in there too.

House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende was another good read.

By: RiverGirl

RiverGirl — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:31:20 +0000

Gary – I’ve added that book to my Amazon wishlist. It looks powerful. How depressing is it?

By: Gary Denness

Gary Denness — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:18:02 +0000

Pillars of the Earth was a great read. I finished the sequel a couple of months ago. It’s more of the same, but still a great read.

Have you read ‘We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families’ by Philip Gourevitch?

By: RiverGirl

RiverGirl — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:07:18 +0000

Iaax – Thanks bro, I’ve got About Face 3 on my Amazon Wishlist now, will get it when I go to the US this fall.

Coby – I agree with you, I kept thinking about Mexico’s brand of poverty as I was reading The End of Poverty. He doesn’t really flesh out how Mexico can end it’s poverty, though he does say that it has the natural resources needed to do so.

Sarah – My realistic version of life here isn’t what everyone experiences here. Don’t give up on your dream, but do know that life here can be as complicated as anywhere else.

I was a little depressed when I finished Pillars of the Earth, I think because of all that killing and maiming.

Thanks for the suggestion of Shantaram, that looks like something my book club might like, I’m going to suggest it to them.