Sitting at home for the last 3 months, I used the opportunity to read a lot of books and watch some selected movies. Some of these impressed me, rather transformed me in their own ways.
Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong
Before reading the book, I knew very little about Lance Armstrong - a cancer survivor who won 'Tour de France' title seven consecutive times between 1999 to 2005 . This book gave a glimpse of his life - living through the chemos, life after cancer treatment and preparation for 'Tour de France' in a great detail. True to the title of the book, he has lived his life as though 'Every Second Counts'. I hear many people talk about how a near death experience transforms them and it is after such an experience that they live life more intensely. This is a must read book to understand this better.
Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramhansa Yogananda
Wow...Aha....Whoooooaaaaa.....
I can't think of any more words to express what I felt while reading this book.
Snow - Maxence Fermine
A very beautiful poetic story.
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
Not my best pick. But okay to read once. Got a glimpse of how life turns out when you you live in America and have Indian roots
3 Very interesting movies:
1. King Corn - After this movie, I started realizing how much America is living on Corn, from food to cars, there's corn everywhere. Almost every cereal box and fruit juice box has corn syrup in the ingredient list. The guy with a car registeration plate as 'CORNFED' said it all.
2. What the Bleep do we know
One other movie that brings Science(Quantum physics) and Spirituality together. Oh my, there's so much in this existence that we are unaware of, but we human beings go about assuming that we've got nature under our control. Pity us!!
3. Phenomenon
Review from Wikipedia: "George Malley (John Travolta) is a man whose life is transformed by a strange flash of light he observes on the evening of his 37th birthday. Over the course of the following days, George starts to experience an extraordinary form of genius-level intelligence, rapidly absorbing vast amounts of information, formulating new, revolutionary ideas, and even exhibiting telekinetic abilities."
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