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The Witch of Portobello
by Paulo Coelho
I picked this up simply because it was in the apartment where we're staying in Sydney, and because… hey! I have to read Paulo Coelho some time!
It's an interesting way of writing a story— the book is compiled from an arrangement of transcriptions of cassette tapes recorded after the death of the main character, Athena. Every viewpoint character is simply a way of fleshing out Athena, her life, and her lessons.
Suffice it to say, there are lessons in this book, but I'm an impatient person by nature, and I wanted to find out about Athena's death, thus skipping over a great deal of good quotes that could sum the book's teachings up in my hurry to find the end.
There are plot twists in this book. Things you wouldn't expect and things that are a bit sad. But it's a portrait of a life, and within the portrait there are brush strokes of wisdom.
Love simply is.
It's an interesting way of writing a story— the book is compiled from an arrangement of transcriptions of cassette tapes recorded after the death of the main character, Athena. Every viewpoint character is simply a way of fleshing out Athena, her life, and her lessons.
Suffice it to say, there are lessons in this book, but I'm an impatient person by nature, and I wanted to find out about Athena's death, thus skipping over a great deal of good quotes that could sum the book's teachings up in my hurry to find the end.
There are plot twists in this book. Things you wouldn't expect and things that are a bit sad. But it's a portrait of a life, and within the portrait there are brush strokes of wisdom.
Love simply is.