Book Review: Orhan Pamuk " A strangeness in my mind"

Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize in Literature in  2006. His novel My Name is Red won the 2003 iMPAC Dublin Literary Award. 

The first time I read this author and his books. When I found this book in the bookstore made me curious to read because I'd heard he is a very good author. I started reading " A strangeness in my mind" by Orhan Pamuk, with great interest and curiosity.

Being the Adventures and Dreams of Mevlut Karatas, a Seller of Boza, and of His friends, and Also a Potrait of Life in Instanbul Between 1969 and 2012 from, many different Points of View.

At the age of twelve, Melvut Karata comes to Istambul, hoping to make it rich yet luck never seems to be on  his side. He spends three years writing love letters to a girl he saw just once at a wedding, only to elope by mistake with her sister. And though he grows to cherish his wife and the family they have, he stumbles toward middle age in a series of jobs leading nowhere. But every evening, without fail, Mevlut still wanders the streets of Istanbul, until fortune conspires once more to let him understand at last what it is he has always yearned for.
Told from different perespectives by a host of beguiling characters, A strangeness in My Mind is a modern epic about coming of age in a great city, and a brilliant tableau of life in Istanbul over the past fifty years, from Nobel Prize winning bestelling author Orhan Pamuk.

Book Review: Ernest Hemingway "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"

 I was happy when did I find " The Snows of Kilimanjaro" by Ernest Hemingway. I read two books, of this author:"The old Man and the Sea and Others Stories."

The Snows of Kilimanjaro is about Spare powerful tough, in part autobiographical and totally convincing in their realism, men and women of passion and action live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. From  haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring from rural America with its deceptive calm to the heart of war-ravaged Europe, each of the stories in this classic collection is feat of imagination, a masterpiece of description.

Fragmente: Notiţe de Jurnal

Când primeşti în dar cărţii inima îţi creşte mare cât o floare, dar când cumperi cărţiш din banii tăi, îţi dai seama că valoarea lor, este tot mai mare.Fericirea ta, pentru achiziţia lor creşte din în ce, în ce mai mult.

După ce cumperi o carte, în suflet îţi creşte dorinţa să o citeşti cât mai repede. Vrei să o răsfoieşti, să o ţii în mână, să o miroşi, să o simţi, şi să o citeşti cât mai repede. Arzi de nerăbdare să vezi personajele din ea, şi să le dai viaţa. Dorinţa de cunoaştere creşte din ce în ce mai mult. Îţi dai seama că cunoaşterea este din ce în ce mai importantă decât valorile materiale pe care le deţii.

Şi cărţile sunt una din cele mai importante lucruri care le fac cu plăcere, pentru că citesc cu plăcere şi mă face să mă simt bine.

Fragment Notiţe din Jurnal

Pe zi ce trece, mă tot iubesc pe mine din ce în ce mai mult. Îl iubesc pe Dumnezeu pentru creaţia lui Divină, ce-a dat în mine. Mi-a dat iubire, înţelepciune, înţelegere şi respect de sine, maturitate, echilibru. Mi-a dat pe oameni dragi lângă mine. Un lucru minunat, mi-a dat credinţă care devine din ce în ce mai puternică în mine. Credinţă e un lucru sfânt în oameni, care nu se pierde niciodată, dacă omul vrea să rămân singur pe lume. Te iubesc Doamne şi Îţi Mulţumesc că eşti în mine, şi alături de mine. Şi-mi araţi lucrurile cele mai bune.
Îmi arăţi calea pe care trebuie să o parcurg, îmi arăţi menirea mea pe acest pământ şi mă faci să lupt pentru cee ce trebuie să devin. Dumnezeu mă conduce pe drumul cel bun. Undeva va trebuie să ajung. Numai Dumnezeu ştie, ce nici tu nu ştii ce te aşteaptă în viitorul tău sau ce-ţi este sortit.

Fragment Notiţe de Jurnal

După multă vreme mi sa făcut dor de Tine

Tu mi-ai  dat viaţă

Tu mi-ai dat speranţă

Mi-ai dat ochii să văd viaţă cu alţii ochii şi să o trăiesc.

M-ai făcut să mă schimb

M-ai făcut să iubesc

M-ai făcut să cresc

Într-un cuvânt, Sunt un om ceea ce azi,
 Sunt prin Tine.

Book Review : John Grisham " Theodore Boone". Half the man, Twice the lawyer"

Continued I read the books by author to John Grisham novel "Theodore Boone". Half the man, Twice the lawyer". The novel is about, In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he's only thirteen years old, Theo Bonne thinks, he's one of them.

He dreams of a life in the courtroom, but finds himself there sooner than expected when he is dragged into the middle of a sensational murder trail. A cold-blooded killer is about to go free, and only Theo knows the truth. The stakes are high, but Theo won't stop until justice is served.

Inspiring Thoughts by Abdul Kalam

Sometimes you have to reflect on your life when you read such a book. Each page contains words and wise advice that puts you to analyze, do not necessarily follow them. But to analyze them, to make your life easier and more beautiful.

I like to share with you dear readers.

• What would you like to be remembered for? You have to evolve yourself and shape your life. You should write it on a page and that maybe a very important page in the book of human history.
• Encourge all children to dream for themselves. Unless they have dreams they will not be motivated to attain them.
• The dream-thought action philosophy is what. I would like to be inculcated in each and very student.
• Creativity is seeing the same thing as everybody else, but thinking of out the box solutions.
• Quality leaders are like magnets, they attract the best people.
• Creative leadership is exercising the task to change the traditional role from commander to mentor, from director to delegator and from one who demands respect to one who facilitates self-respect.
• It is not a disgrace to not reach the stars, but it is a digrace to have no stars to reach for.
• A great book is a source of great knowledge and wealth for many generation.
• Dream, dream, dream. Your dreams will transform into thoughts lead to honest work. Work will result in actions. And you will succeed.
• Success is possible only when we have a commitment to action.
• While moral leadership requiers people to do the right things, entrepreneurial leadership requires people to acquire the habit of doing things right.
• Connectivity is strength Conectivity is wealth. Connectivity is progress.
• With determined efforts you can can always succeed against established beliefs.
• Always be ready to walk the unexplored path.
• Agreat mind and a great heart go together
• You will be rembered for creating a page in the history of the nation
• The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires to give the best to those who dream and work
• Enlightened citizenship has three components: education with value system, religion transforming into spiritual force, and creating economic prosperity through development.
• One cannot stop at thinking and asking questions. There is need to act to solve the problems and that requires hard work and perseverance.
• Creativity and imagination of the human mind would always be superior to any computer.
• Education is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
• Can we make an education system which will retain the smiles on the faces of our children?
• It is  through the process of innovation that knowledge is converted into wealth
• Beautiful  minds are the source of creativity
• Creativity is the foundation of human thinkin and will always be at the highest end of the value chain.
• Learning gives creativity. Creativity leads to thinking. Thinking provides knowledge. Knowledge makes you great.
• Every mind is creative, every mind is inquisitive
• The precious asset of a contry is the  skill, ingenuity and imagination of its people.
• Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is destruction. Thinking leads to action.
• Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action brings prosperity.
• What was thought impossible has happened and what is thought possible has not yes happened but it certainly will happen.
• The education system has a tremendous responsibility to transform a child into a leader the transformation from " What can you do for me" to What can I do for you".
• Conscience is a great ledger where our offences are booked and registered
• The most important part of education is to imbibe among the students the spirit of " we can do it"
• Hard work and pereseverence are beautiful angeles who will reside on your shoulders
• An ignited mind is the most powerful resource on the earth, above the earth and under the earth
• The three key societal members who can make a difference are father, mother and teacher
• Once taught, children become conscience keepers
• Education and values imparted in childhood are more important than the education received in college and university
• In society we have to build righeousness among all its constituents
• The  twenty-first century is about the management of all the knowledge and information we have  generated and the value addition that we can bring to it
•  Science and spiritualism seek the same divine blessing for doing for for the people
• Enlightened leadership is all about empowerment
• In whatever field we work, we have to remain in the service of the common man whose well being is central to all  human knowledge and endeavour
• Our righteous toil is our guiding light. If we work hard we all can prosper. Nurture great thoughts rise up in actions in actions. May righteous methods be our guide
• Teachers themselves should be lifelong learners
• Avirtuous man alone can use the instrument of conscience
• A belive there is no other profession in the world that is more important to society than that of a teacher.
• A teacher's life lights many lamps
•  What matters in this life more than winning for ourselves is helping others win.
• A teacher has to create a lifelong autonomous learner
• Teachers have a great mission to ignite the minds of the young
• When a leader empowers the people, such leaders are created who can change the course of the nation itself
• Coming into contact with a good book and possessing it is an everlasting enrichment of life
• Give one hour a day exclusively for book reading and in a few years you will become a knowledge centre
• Science is all about asking questions and finding the right answers through  hard work and research into laws of nature
• Music is great communication and language can never be a barrier
• Keep asking questions till you get satisfactory answers
• Authors act as conscience keepers of the society
• Music and dance can be used as an instrument for ensuring global peace and act as a binding force
• The crowning glory of a nation is its thinkers
• It is the privilege of authors that they can help mankind endure adversities and succeed in life.
• Learning needs freedom to think and freedom to imagine, and both have to be facilitated by the teacher.
• Music and dance elevate you a different plane altogether and give you a breeze of happiness and peace.
• A combination of knowledge, enthusiasm and hard work of the youth is a great dynamic fire for transforming the nation.
• Literature elevates the mind.
• Strenght respects strength
• All of us have to work hard and do everything possible to make our behaviour civilized to protect the rights of every individual.
• Repeating what we did before for several decades with more of the same may not be the way to proceed further.
• Science is the best boon that God has bestowed upon mankind
• At the frontier, there are no borders
• Art helps to bring out the beauty of life in its noblest forms, imparting meaning and depth to human existence, justifying and vindicating the purpose for which life was evolved.
• Enlightened spiritual and scientific leaders all converge towards giving reverence to human life.
• Each one of us on this planet creates a page in human history irrespective of who her or she is. I realise my experience is a small dot in human history, but that dot has a life and light.