The Older You Get




Roshi said something to me the other day that I like," (Leonard) Cohen told me just before I left. 'The older you get, the lonelier you become, and the deeper the love that you need.'-- Pico Iyer


Posted at at 18:10 on Thursday 28 January 2010 by Posted by 薛霏 | 0 comments   | Filed under:

I See Her Eyes, Shinning and Bright


The great thing about reading is one can relates his/her experience or opinion with the author. When I devoured the memoir Walking through Fire by the Egytian Feminist Writer Nawal El Saadawi, I couldn't help but nodding my head in agreement with most of the thing she had shared in her book.

This is a great book to spend time with, I was immediately sucked in the world of Nawal El Saadawi since I read the first line.

While I read the book, I felt as if I have look into her eyes and have known her. I can relate to her experience and thoughts, anger and sadness. She feels strongly about women's position in her society and constantly feel helpless for couldn't do more to establish a safer place for women to live in. I often have that anger with me as well.

Her words touch me deeply, and tears often well up in my eyes.

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Posted at at 20:23 on Monday 25 January 2010 by Posted by 薛霏 | 0 comments   | Filed under: , ,

Women Unbound Reading Challenge


I came across this interesting Women Unbound Reading Challenge, and interested to participate.

Since I wanted to do a female author short story collection reading challenge this year, I think maybe I can combine both challenges together.


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Posted at at 11:25 on Friday 15 January 2010 by Posted by 薛霏 | 1 comments   | Filed under: ,

Open Sesame!


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Posted at at 15:04 on Thursday 14 January 2010 by Posted by 薛霏 | 0 comments   | Filed under: , , , ,

Start Afresh in 2010

It's been ages since my last posting.


Somehow I hope 2010 will be a fruitful year in reading, and perhaps to blog about it again. Well, I'm always ever so hopeful at the beginning of the year, I certainly hope this reading momentum will not turn to inertia.

I want to try a short story collections challenge this year, am thinking to read 5 to 10 short story collections written by female writers. I'm thinking aloud here, maybe short stories by Flannery O' Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Alice Munro, Jane Bowles, Doris Lessing, Miranda July, Judith Hermann, Margaret Atwood, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Anne Enright, etc.

Another reading challenge would be to finish two books by great culinary essayist Elizabeth David's Harvest of the Cold Months and M.F.K.Fisher's Art of Eating.

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Posted at at 00:39 on Wednesday 6 January 2010 by Posted by 薛霏 | 0 comments   | Filed under: , ,
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