I love Alice Feiring's Wines! :)

It felt like I toured the famous vineyards from France, to Italy, Spain and tasted all the Barolos, Riojas, Domaine de la Romanée-Contis, among other wines! Thanks to my weekend reading: Alice Feiring's book "The Battle for Wine and Love: or How I Saved the World from Parkerization." It's a very very enlightening introductory piece on wines for someone like myself who only differentiates between red and white. :) I super love this book!

I really wish I could get to experience the vineyard visits Feiring did in this book! 

Reading the book also made me interested in the kind of wines that gets into films or films that have them in some scenes. Check this link: http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-movies-with-wine.php

 

The Discovery of God

The Discovery of God: Abraham and the Birth of Monotheism by David Klinghoffer

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is an interesting and engaging read on Abraham's life. I had to read slowly through the first three chapters but after that, I had a grand time reading through it. Klinghoffer is not an academician discussing the bible but is one who takes you into his journey of discoveries. I am thankful for this book because now I am able to understand more why Sodom and Gomorrah was burned down. And that satan is not necessarily the demon we've created in our graphics but is, in fact, merely the "accuser" within us.


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My Zygote Day

Yesterday (Sunday), I spent half a day reading Suzanne Finnamore's The Zygote Chronicles. I love love love Suzanne Finnamore for this!

Reading Finnamore's book made me wish my mom was a writer then. Or for that matter, that everyone's mom should have been a writer so that during the period when our moms became pregnant, something great like Finnamore's book would have been written for us to look back on...something for us to really reflect on the moment our humanoid brains finally kick in or even before we make a mess of everything. No matter how disillusioned or embittered you've become, I think you could've easily grown a heart just knowing that your mom made efforts to record her thoughts (we hope not so anti-you) while you were a cutesie yolk up to the day she delivered you out into this world (and the cake would be the day she publishes it into a book, dedicated, no less, to you). Finnamore made me burst into laughter reading passages from her book. Absolutely brilliant! I would kiss her hand when I see her! If she allows me. :)

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I just read this book by Ian Falconer today! And I sooooo love it!