Another misc - this time about....Books!

Yep, it's leaving day, and I'm doing....a book entry. Whilst this 10 day period has been great for body (kinda obvs, that, given the fasting and excellent care around it, medical, alternative, yoga and meditation, incredible company etc) and soul too, but has also availed for some quality reading in between all that other...stuff! Three rather wonderful books crossed my path, namely these.

Anna Pasternak's "Lara" is the non-fiction account of her great-uncle Boris Pasternak's unbelievably powerful love affair with the eponymous muse for his masterwork Dr Zhivago - indelibly played across from Omar Sharif by Julie Christie. It is fascinating that one of English bridge chums here - Andrew - happens to be married to Ms Pasternak today.

"Murder Your Employer" looked like a fun, time-passing piece of cleverness in the Buchinger lending library - and it was! - but also a wickedly admirable piece of satire, social commentary, and (for this reader) lots of moments of laugh-out-loud wit. I will be looking for more from Rupert Holmes including his Broadway stylings (he won a Tony for creating "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" which I will now have to try to see, somewhere.)

But the biggest find for me (and only one I brought with me) was Michael Singer's "The Surrender Experiment" which for fellow seekers I cannot recommend highly enough. No teaser except for the obvious from the back cover: what happens when you just. Let. Go? As cool as the other two, this one will stay with me the longest as I continue to try to implement Mickey (as his friends call him, and I hope to be one someday) Singer's method in my own life. See what you think, and love.