Category: Reading Challenge

This was an unexpected find. I can’t even remember how I came to know that Jackie Chan’s autobiography is out there but when I saw it, I knew I would want to read it. I grew up watching so many early Jackie Chan movies and yet I had no idea who is the man behind all the stunts, choreography and funny faces.

By the time I understood what had happened, it was too late. My impulsive decision led to my decade of darkness, though it was in those ten years that I became Jackie Chan.

Now I really want to find some of those really old Jackie Chan movies and re-watch them after twenty years or so!

During summer I read Liane Moriarty’s newest book, Nine Perfect Strangers, and wasn’t that impressed about it as I wrote in a previous post. And now I’ve read What Alice Forgot from the same author, and the reading experience was better.

But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.

To be honest I did not expect to read anything from Liane Moriarty for a while, or perhaps ever, because I was so underwhelmed by the previous book. But then a book club I joined recently picked What Alice Forgot as the next book, so I rushed to buy it and read it before the meeting.

Before summer I had an idea of forming a book club and I was happy to get some friends from work to join me in this newly formed group. We set out to decide the first book to read for the book club and after a lottery of many suggestions, my pick won and it was the Invisible Women. Yay!

There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work.

This was by far one of the most interesting and thought provoking books I’ve read this year.