so i gave the benefit of the doubt and tried reading aleph again.

i was frustrated and did not understand at all what paulo is trying to say in this book and was utterly disappointed with aleph. i finished reading it in about two months before and there was nothing that grasp me to continue reading it. but last wednesday, i was looking through my bookshelf for a book to read, preferably a non fiction, because i was really still having a book euphoria from Quiet. i thought there is no book which is going to take my attention now that my mind is still thinking about all the information i got from Quiet.

my fingers picked aleph, again. i told myself, ok why not. let’s learn to love this book. although i doubt i will love it as much as the alchemist still. but i guess it was a good choice. as of today, only two days after starting reading it, i am left with about 40 more pages. thanks to the waitings and travelling journeys to and fro the hospital. i found myself engrossed in reading it and i finally came to really read and understand what the aleph is. i was so relieved. because i hated finishing a book without knowing what it was all about and rereading it, i finally understood what aleph is and it was exactly what i would have understand it to be if i had read it carefully the first time. and i even came across some quotes and lines which makes me think or simply like.

im feeling happy because of this. excited. im going to finish the 40 pages left and put aleph back on the shelf with the good thinking that it has benefitted me and probably inspired me a bit, as do paulo’s books always have. but. but there is something i dont agree with him in this book. i am so going to talk about it later.

toodles. da.