Sometimes it seems (to me) like I eat, breath and dream about yoga.
Yes, I am in love with the practice but I am even more in love with everything else that blossoms from it.
So naturally yoga is all I want to talk about..lately.
But not today.
Today I want to talk about everything else that has been going on...besides yoga.
1) My Kindle, 2) the Salvadorean version of a Happy Hour, 3) family breakfast, 4) late-night date, 5) new high chairs, 6) new old wooden table.
I particularly want to talk about my new BFF: my Kindle paperwhite.
I was one of those books lovers that refused to make the e-reader jump. How could I trade the flipping-through-pages experience for a scrolling down device right? Well I did and I love it.
I am reading a whole lot more now. It's more practical and like I've said before, now I have access to many books I couldn't read before.
The first book I read was The Great Gatsby and now that I've read it I can't wait to watch the movie! Normally I am not that crazy about books turned into movies. There are just a few that I believe are narrated better in moving images than in words.
I get it, a great book is supposed to make a great movie, but I find that is rarely the case. Some recent examples are Life of Pi, the Millennium trilogy and some of the Harry Potter films.
And I have a strong opinion about this subject because I believe turning great books into movies is a way to feed a make-it-larger-than-life mentality: make it bigger, shinier, sparkly...and now blow it up and make it 3D!. Well, books may not be that visually appealing but they can be an amazing experience. Everything you see in a movie still happens when you read a book, it all happens with the help of your imagination.
Don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with making the movie, my main problem is substituting one for the other.
But I will stop here because I could go on and on about this movies and books thing.
Anyhow, my expectations for the Great Gatsby movie are really high. I love.love.love Baz Lurhmann. I love his movies except Australia. I think Moulin Rouge is one of my favorite movies. I know every song, every line and cry every time I watch it.
The Gatsby story is not that long so I don't think he'll be cutting out parts from the book. He didn't in Romeo & Juliet...another reason why I love him.
He did Romeo and Juliet (Leo Dicaprio and Claire Danes) and I loved how he used the original written language. But that may just be me and a handful of reading geeks, I know of people who couldn't stand the use of the "thee" pronoun throughout the movie.
This was my first time reading Fitzgerald. Now, I may read particularly slow but this book made me read s-l-o-w-e-r. English is my second language and I may be fluent but this book had a lot of new words for me. Luckily the Kindle comes with a dictionary and whenever I found a word I didn't know I just tapped it and it immediately gave me its definition.
The other books I am currently reading are: The autobiography of a Yogi, Daring Greatly, The case for God and (still) 1Q84.
Disclaimer: This post was not, in any way, sponsored by Amazon and/or Baz Lurhmann. Although I wish they would send me books or movies to review this post comes from my experience with a Kindle my husband got me as a Christmas gift.
Tell me..what is currently on your reading list?
