Since I don' t have the money to travel and since my credit card says "I am bloated and do some enema on my ass please" and I am a miser, wiser and older for my own good thinking about how my future gonna be uncertain as the health of my parents, I have decided to spend my holidays on books.
I have bought a lot of books over the 32 years of my life, some out of the real need to cram for information, some for light entertainment and some due to impulsive buying. Ironically not all books that are wasted are bought under the latter category;bought on a whim of the perceived and self-conceited need.
This makes me having piles of books begging for me to read them. And read I have. I have read the long-awaited John Grisham's The Innocent Man, his first ever non-fiction on the wrongly accused and incarcerated Ronnie Williamson to a crime he did not commit. He was jailed and even a few days away close to being injected with Sodium Thiopenthal, and Potassium Chloride in the most deadly city of Oklahoma before being halted due to the mandatory appeal owned by every citizen on his death sentencing; well the appeal was not decided yet, it was apparently a technical error that they sent a letter to Ronnie telling him he would get executed when Ronnie himself was left uninformed. So much for close shave.
Before that I also finished a unneccessary, unneeded and kinda boring book My Life As A Quant by a Professor in Physics and Finance Analysis, Emanuel Derman. I meant unnecessary cause it was given to me by Austin cause he thought I would appreciate it having seen me reading financial papers like THe Edge; turns out that the theory and rhetoric here are bunch of gobbledygook which I do not really need to better understand what I am reading. I kinda understand more about bond though, albeit I did not ever involve in bond before. It's kinda a waste of time generally but hey I am proud of finishing this book, well of course I skipped the useless part like how he went on a few pages about how he got to his theory that he made which in all means and benefits I won't gonna remember it.
Next I scanned through Rudy Giuliani's Leadership, his book about his mayorship of New York between 1994 and 2001, centering the book around 911 and US foreign policy. I kinda get a deeper understanding to how a republican, or conservative in US may think like; falling back on divine intervention, high integrity, progressive somewhat and hypocrisy another. Overall I find this book inspiring where inspiration due, especially when dealing with a catastrophe as humongous as the terrorist attack on World Trade Centre.
I really want to read a fiction again but fictions are the ones I usually devour and finish first on the day I buy them. Non fictions are the ones that lay collecting dust after a few pages turned. So I am now surrounded by so many non-fiction looking at me with accusing glare, coaxing me to read them. Perhaps a Stephen King? :)
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