The Zahir - Paulo Coelho

One of my friends told me, when I was complaining about not knowing what to put on this blog , that I should put my comments about the books I read, and I did it once and now I don't know what to say about this book, the plot is not great but it really doesn't matter much , what is great is the way the author describes how a long term relationship like marriage can fall apart and why. There is so much truth in what he is saying that reading it is painful sometimes.
I asked myself "would you read this book again in a few years?" and the answer in "no", but I bought it, because I know a few people who should read it.

You know that daily question "how are you ?" and the answer automaticaly comes "I'm OK" , this is how this book is "OK".

Who's your friend?

It is a saying “tell me who’s your friend and I will tell you who you are”, and I always tend to get into long debates trying to prove that isn’t true, but it is.
It’s like a reflection of what they are on your soul, I look at my friend, and I see her being warm, nice and I think that I am the same and this makes me feel good, but the worst is when your friend is mean, unkind and then following this logic the conclusion is that I am the same and that makes me feel miserable.
If somebody makes you feel bad is not your friend , right?

Reading Saramago's Blindness

Amazing book wrote in a very original Saramago way, a book about "seeing" versus "understanding". Did you ever imagined yourself and all people around you going blind? how life would be then? how things important today when we can "see" can become totally non important when we don't see, how people can terrorize others in any conditions , how life can be like in a horror movie when things are getting out of control. Whatever the answer is I am sure you can't imagine the world described by Saramago in this brilliant fiction book.


I do recommend this book to all of you who read Camus Plaque or Garbriel Garcia Marquez fictions and you liked them, and to all of you who want to understand why we can't see the same shade of white.

"I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see"