The Winner Stands Alone

I just finished reading this book and for me it was really spectacular and well-written. Paulo Coelho is the author of many famous books and this one is very interesting to read. Everything takes place in only 24 hours at the Cannes Film Festival. The lives of the 5 main characters are about to change forever when Igor the mastermind of an evil plan to get his wife back destroys their world without caring much about the outcome . Igor is willing to destroy everything and professionally kill people without caring how much his decisions are going to affect the other characters that have worked so hard to get to the top of the business where film and fashion is every ones priority . In Igor's mind he feels justified in murdering innocent people to 'prove' his love for Ewa constantly calling her thinking that will work. Ewa left Igor for a famous fashion designer called Hamid that just like him, Hamid is very rich and both have private jets which is a funny thing as Igor makes it clear how much he detest snobby millionaires that come in private jets and wear expensive clothes. While Igor is planning his next victim, the other characters thirsty to reach stardom do anything that they are told with false promises. This characters learn to get rejected, pushed to their limits, exploited and all for a contract deal. The author's intent is basically to make you realize how the world of Cannes is, describing it as survival of the fittest and the reality of fame and glamour is really just and money and power. the patterns of organization is in chronological order.

are you happy?

"I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness"

                                                               -H.H Dalia Lama
Wise words that everyone should look up to. this time I'm reading a book from a genre that it's still a little unknown to me. The Art of Happiness: A Handbook For Living is the current book that I'm reading. You can say I'm kind of reading a self- help book yes. I've just started it but I feel like every time I read a sentence, I'm learning something new. The chapter I've read so far explains how the author Howard Cutler is going to have several meetings with His Holiness so he can share all the information on how to have a happier life and the difference between an un-happy and happy person. According to Dalia Lama a happy person tends to be more sociable and creative than an un-happy person. Cutler gives distinct scenarios on how people react to certain obstacles depending on their current moods. If a person just stepped out of a comedy show, he is more likely to give money to a homeless person than someone who has not being affected emotionally by any means. “Happiness is determined more by one’s state of mind than by external events". Cutler gives two great examples how this quote can not be anymore accurate and the outcome is really eye opening. Dalia Lama's intent is to help you be happy! He is aware of all his surroundings and the technology that is now leading our world so he wants people to not forget the simple things in life because you do not want to notice how unhappy you are when it is too late to change it.
The patterns of organization is basically in order of importance. First they tell you the most important idea: How to be happy and then they say how to keep it that way.

another love story

 I've moved on from "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" to bigger and better things. The book that I am currently reading is called "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and by the title of the book you can infer that yes it is a love story. Now I have not finished reading the book so I do not know if this tale ends in a happy ending but what I have read so far, the main character is far from getting the girl of his dreams. Halfway through the book, I have reached quite a controversial chapter and possible the most shocking yet of this book. Florentino Ariza the main character, has decided to leave Fermina after much heartbreak she has gave him. He takes a ship to reach a faraway city, Villa de Leyva. The story takes a complete turn when one night by the captain's request, he is ordered to give up his cabin and as he starts wandering off in the ship something unexplainable happens.
Ariza is dragged inside a dark cabin by an unidentified and (naked) woman who takes his virginity. He is bewildered with emotions he has never felt before and his dream of ever losing his virginity to fermina is now gone, as well as his desires for her. The chapter revolves around him trying to figure out who the woman was as well as her motives and as he has suspicions of one the women in the ship, he never actually goes up to her to ask her.
Even though this section got me a little mad by the fact that it proved how someone can easily cover up love for a woman using sexual encounters with strangers, I think that maybe it was all for the best. Ariza's whole mentality changed and Fermina was no longer part of him. The part were the naked woman takes his virginity is shocking and overly unexpected but at the same time it was good for it to change completely.
I believe the author's intent is to shock us and try to not get us bored basically. always talking about how much the main character missed Fermina was getting sickening so when Ariza finally lets his guard down, the author finally was a able to show another side of him. the patterns of organization I was able to tell were confusing. Order of importance is visible because the book starts with the present stating the most important event and then going on explaining the past.

bookworm

The current book I'm reading is called "The girl with the dragon tattoo"  by Stieg Larsson. I haven't finished it but I'm only a few chapters away. the chapter I most recently finished reading was about Mikael Blomkvist (the main character in the book) goes back to hedestad after a long journey of finding the couple in a picture that could possibly tell what happened to Harriet.  In hedestad he meets up with Lisbeth who exchange every thing they have researched about the case sine they last saw each other. Blomkvist is now convinced that the Harriet knew more than she was suppose to and he and Salander are now more motivated than ever to figure it out.

I like how this book is getting more intense and dramatic than ever, as well as the fact Lisbeth is now showing her emotions and trusting Blomkvist more. Also even though this is a fictional book it really made me realize that some people are really sick in the head and do some really disturbing things.

If I had to write notes to help me remember this chapter, I would write a list in chronological order because this chapter if written in a different style of notes it would be very confusing. this book is written in chronological order as well and the chapters are named by dates. this helps a lot to know exactly what happened and not get lost or confused as other books tend to go back and forth in time .

I love her, she's Lisbeth Salander the main character as well.

 I decided to take a "What kind of reader are you?" quiz and boy is that quiz accurate. I got drama as my first choice and fiction. It was right on the spot because basically all my books are either fiction or drama. When I read I like to be transported to a different era or dimension or simply something that will have me pulling my hair until the very last word in the book.
 The last thing I've read was this morning, the book "The Help". I've yet to finish it but I love it, it sends me back to those times and I really admire the work that the main character is doing in the book. As you can tell this is a drama/fiction book but it also shows some historical parts of what people went through in the 60's so that's why this book is so interesting.