No Pulitzer or Man Booker list, these are my favourite reads:
1. Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s wife
(love has an end, we are merely mortals. Superb)
2. Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
(haunting, well written, more than mere adultery. love tries to conquer all)
3. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
(love despite infidelity, lightness and burden of love)
4. [...]
‘I feel for Prudie, she’s married to a complete Neanderthal’
According to an article that i have read recently, research has found that there is a 50% increase in the incidence of breast cancer for women who:
work the graveyard shift
this is possibly linked to the hormone Melatonin (a cancer fighting hormone that is released at night when sufficient darkness is detected)
So, for your own benefit:
Sleep [...]
The Essence: (as lifted from the book)
1. How to revive dull skin- Chemical peel (an acid solution applied to the face to remove the outermost layer of skin)
2. How to restore skin elasticity and reduce ruddiness- Laser skin rejuvenation (high intensity pulses of light work beneath skin surface which is absorbed, then the skin will [...]
“When I first opened my eyes, it was as if I were living someone else’s life. After an extremely long time, this began to match up with my own life. A curious overlap this, my life as someone else’s. It was improbable that such a person as myself could even be living.” (Murakami)
