Holes!

I finished reading a book "Holes" by Louis Sachar. It was full of fun!! My husband read the Japanese version and recommended it to me. Some of my friends also recommended it to me. So when I found the book in the Osaka city library last Wednesday, I was delighted! At first I could go only 20 pages or so per day. But gradually the pace was accelerated! Yesterday, I started at page 80 or so, and until midnight I finished the 233 pages! In the morning I had a music student, so after lunch I started to read. In the afternoon, between an intervals of recording piano part of the songs(which my chorus group is going to sing at the city culture festival next spring), viola practice, preparation for dinner, watching Japan baseball series, and taking bath, I just read and read!!

It was a book of a beautiful adventure to happiness by young boys who once were put labels of bad boys on them. The story goes back and forth of present and past, and the two times are finally connected with each other so wonderfully!!

Although it takes quite a long time for me to read English books, I love reading! Because it gives me a lot of gifts, not only a good amount of knowledge but also much energy in my life!!!

I first read an English paperback just a few years ago, in 2005. My first English paperback was "To Kill a Mockingbird". Since then, I've read several books, "The Dead Zone", "Bud, not Buddy", "Tuesdays with Morrie", "The Five People You Meet in Heaven", "Flowers for Algernon", Dar Es Salaam", "The Fire eaters" and so on.

And I have to confess, I gave up several books in the middle or at the beginning, so the books are waiting to be read in my bookshelf! Among them are, "Pride and Prejudice", "Wuthering Heights", "Pet Sematary", "Fire starter", "No Mama's boy", "The Book Thief", The Unconsoled", "Flags of our Fathers", "Mercy", and a few books by Nora Roberts and some more!! Oh I have to make more time to read!!