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Death Knocks Twice by Robert Thorogood (creator of the TV series ‘Death in Paradise’) Alpa writes a series of companion mystery books with the same characters. I love both the TV series and the books! And if you enjoy the Agatha Christie type of mysteries, then you will love these books too! .. .. #book #bookcover #mysterybooks #mystery #crime #thriller #books #bookish #bookworm #nowreading #currentlyreading #reader #thereadinglife #vsco #vscocam #vscophile #vscoindia #days #life #bookstagram #bookstagramindia #india #bombay #mumbai

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I am a full time student that loves to read but can’t read more than 3 books per month because of my school work and my job. But then I see post from other people who I presume have just as a busy live as me read 10 books or more.. And the I think how do they do that and what am I doing wrong. Are these people superhumans or something??         

I’m jealous that my step-daughter’s assigned summer reading for school is The Great Gatsby. I wish I could read it again for the first time. I was 15 and my family was packing to move the day I discovered it. We were in limbo awaiting moving day and all of my books were already packed. In my search for entertainment I found one stray, The Great Gatsby, my parents’ book, overlooked in a stack of paperwork in a closet. Maybe it was because I was moving, already anticipating the feeling of being an outsider like Nick. Maybe with my teenage world view I related to Nick’s moral superiority. Or maybe it was as simple as being drawn to a character named Daisy since my dog was named Daisy. I don’t remember why I started it but the pull was immediate and never stopped. Years later at the REDCAT Theater in Los Angeles I sat through the theater group Elevator Repair Service’s stunning six-hour cover to cover reading of The Great Gatsby. Six hours and I was still as mesmerized by Fitzgerald’s language and characters as the first time I’d read them. So if you’re looking for your summer reading I recommend The Great Gatsby, along with the summer reading list I compiled for the Los Angeles News Group.

was written in 1922. Zweig was born in Vienna in 1881 to a wealthy Austrian Jewish family. He moved everywhere after he was a student in Berlin, he ended in London and New York and finally Brazil. He died in a double suicide with his wife in Brazil in 1942. These are “Tales of Longing and Liberation” says the inside of the front cover. These are loose terms and indeed I did not have any idea or want to have any idea what they meant. Zweig was an inspiration for Wes Anderson‘s Grand Budapest Hotel. You are probably thinking the same thing. Yep. Moustache.

Get the full scoop on all of these titles in my February Los Angeles Daily News column, “5 Books to Help Live Your Life with Intention.”