![]() Oryx and Crake is an apocalyptic tale of the future of humanity (or the lack of it) if man acts god. Margaret Atwood is one of my favorite authors, having been previously spellbound by The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye, and The Blind Assassin. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. "Immortality," said Crake, "is a concept. That obviously is one book beyond my quota and is an accomplishment in itself considering what a sloooooowwwww reader I really am.īelow are some of my more noteworthy reads in the past few months: Often I finish a couple of books per week. We all know what a challenge that is to my infamous attention span, chai mai? and I should read at least two hours per night. The rule is I should be reading by 10 p.m. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since January, I've in fact significantly cut down my online surfing time in the evening to give way to reading. and this resolution alone.įor someone severely lacking discipline as my self, I'm surprised at my devotion to sticking my face between the pages of books. I'm happy to report that among my many resolutions I made I have managed to stick to this. At the start of 2009, I committed to read one book per week, alternating between fiction and non-fiction. ![]()
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