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While I was on vacations I finished three books, two of them very recommendable.

The first one was Angels and Demons, from Down Brown. It was very gripping but I didn’t like it, some of the nights I stayed until 2 or 3 in the morning reading it, what it confirms it was gripping. The story is too unreal, however he has a perfect skill to describe places and to make you travel around the hide and old streets, parks and places from Rome trying to make the story a little more real.

The second one was Africa, harenes de piedra, from Hernan Lanvers. An Argentinean friend left it at home to pick it up when she returns to Auckland and she told me: it is a very good story but it is para grandes. It is about the journey of four teenagers, from Senegal to Mali, three of them sons of diplomatics. They were kidnapped in a national park of Senegal and they walk during nights crossing desserts, followed close by the father of one of them, who makes all what is in his hands, to rescue them, before they are offer as slaves.  The story was really interesting and there is a lot to learn from the oldest continent in the world and from his people, I believe it turned on a little flame to make a nice trip around Africa, one day.

The last one was Jonathan Lifeston Segull, from Richard Bach. A friend was very surprise because I never read it before and for him it was a classic such us Little Prince from Saint-Exupery. Bash was friend of Ray Bradbury, and you can clearly see in the book the vision of Bash as a pilot. Life is an up flight, the higher you fly, the more you see. The story is about what Jonathan sees while he is flying and following his instinct, which is completely different from any other seagull. Ray Bradbury said: “Richard Bach with this book does two things, he gives me flights, he makes me young, for both I’m deeply grateful”. I’m still young, but it made me fly.

Now I’m reading the Fascination Principle and there are 3 more on my list. Margaret Thatcher’s and Edmund Hillari´s biographies and Entrepreneurship, Process and practice.