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Here's a list of what I read last year with a brief rating of each book. At the bottom of the list are some reflections the reading year.

The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain. 4/5

Metamorphoses by Ovid (Charles Martin translation) 4.5/5

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. 4/5

Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain. 4.5/5

How To Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Forester. 4/5

Candide by Voltaire (Translated by Robert ...

It's a little early, but I have some time so I thought I'd post this now. At the beginning of the year I set myself a challenge to read one longer book (600+ pages) per month. I didn't succeed in that challenge, but I did manage to read more longer books and/or series' of books and I learned that I could and I learned that I enjoyed them (when they were the right books, of course) and I learned that there are some great long books out there, just waiting to be delved into. Of the ones that I did ...

It is always sad when a particular person that I revere passes. I can't believe I've reached the age where the leaders of the first Gulf War are passing. There were five central figures I remember from that conflict: President George H.W. Bush, Secretary of State James Baker, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell, and Commander in Chief of US Central Command, Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf. As it pertained to the actual war, I think of Schwarzkopf's ...

Peace be on you and to every human.

2012 is a landmark year when the voice to reinstate peace in the world through bringing human closer to God Almighty and through reminding them rights of human and Justice reached to the power houses of the world. This voice was first raised in 1889 in a small town in India. It claimed it was the same voice which had been promised in all religions and people were waiting for that.


The fragrance of voice’s divine message ...

Well. After all that unhappiness I wrote about yesterday a merry and comfortable Christmas followed.

I was still a bit mad at Napoleon when he finally turned up, if you recall I was still typing my account of the events. I'll try to detail my Christmas Day now in it's entirety, except for the bit I wrote about yesterday.

Mum ended up getting me up at about 9:30 instead of 8:30. No worries. She was supposed to get up at 5 to start on the bird but actually got round to ...