Mila's 10 books challenge

[Mila]

So my goal for this year is to read 10 books starting from now.

Books I have already read before this challenge:
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
Paper Towns - John Green

Books I am currently reading:
*Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet (this is the longest book I have ever read)
*The Fork, The Witch, and The Worm - Christopher Paolini (only missing one chapter)
*Las Crónicas de Narnia: El viajero del alba - C.S. Lewis

I've never done a reading challenge, so I thing it will be fun to try it.

[Ilona]

Best of luck, Mila :)

[Mila]

Ilona wrote: "Best of luck, Mila :)"

Thank you!

[Mila]

So, I kinda ditched the books I was reading to read again Memoirs of a Geisha. I first fell in love with the movie, then, read the book and was even more in love with this story. There's something so enchanting in this book.

I don't know if it is the story, how the words flow and are put together, if it is because it's a mixture between a novel and a memoir. Whatever it is, whenever I think of this book, my inner me is sipping warm tea under the afternoon Sun of an autumn afternoon. Sometimes my inner me is enjoying the book during a calm spring rain.

Maybe my love for manga and anime draws me so intensely towards it. Maybe it's because geisha's feel so ethereal to me and Kyoto streets at those times are so far away from what I know.

Whatever is the reason and because of the quarantine we are all currently living, I thought it was a great moment to take my time and analyze Memoirs of a Geisha. I read during my morning commute, but until the quarantine ends, I don't have a morning commute. The main reason I want to do this is because lately I have been watching videos on YouTube about how to write, how to plot, how to outline... I think the best way to understand all of these things is to actually search from them on a story I love.

I will try to alternate between Arthur Golden's book and Christopher Paolini's book so I don't completely ignore the books I was already reading and because I want to reflect and meditate about the things I am discovering and learning from Memoirs of a Geisha.