Where do you go to my lovely by Peter Sarstedt
Made it to the top of the charts in 1969
Read the following books/comics this week
- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by The Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon
Was interesting and sometimes crazy following Meyer Landsman & Berko Shemets through a murder investigation.
- The Party, After You Left by Roz Chast
- Proof of Life on Earth by Roz Chast
Wonderful books of cartoons. Lots of those illustrations appeared in The New Yorker.
- Home Sweat Home by Lynn Johnston
And of course Scott Adams :
- Fugitive From the Cubicle Police
- Its not Funny if I have to Explain It
- What do you call a Sociopath in a Cubicle ?
(Answer : A Coworker )
Night – Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel’s memoir of guilt of surviving through the holocaust and concentration camps of Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, Buchewald etc as a teenager. He lost all his family to the struggle.
“Here there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends,” a Kapo tells him. “Everyone lives and dies for himself alone.”
Reading this book after Maus was an experience.
Maus by Art Spiegelman is based on his father’s – Vladek Spiegelman’s experience of surviving the holocaust as a Polish Jew. This book won a Pulitzer Prize Special Award. Its such a beautiful book which is autobiographical and tells the story of the Jews’ experience through the 2nd World war and survival instincts of people.
The imagery used to represent different people shows the relationship they had to each other : Jews as mice, Germans as cats, Poles as pigs, Americans as dogs, French as frogs, Romas(gypsies) as gypsy moths, Russians as bears, Swedes as moose/reindeer, African Americans as black dogs, British as fish etc.
Movie : Catch-22
Director: Mike Nichols
Language : English
Watched Catch-22 again after 4 years. Will be reading the Joseph Heller book again too. The additional life experiences(age..wisdom 
) in the last 4 years, helped me appreciate a lot more nuances and sarcasm than I did when I watched it before. Love Love the movie.
Love the last scene where Yossarian hears about Orr and realizes something and jumps out of the window and …
Yossarian on the tree is a lovely scene too.
Dobbs: [Over the radio] Help him! Help him!
Yossarian: Help who?
Dobbs: Help the bombardier!
Yossarian: I’m the bombardier, I’m all right.
Dobbs: Then help HIM, help HIM!
Check out more Yossarian quotes here.
Movie : The Seventh Seal
Director : Ingmar Bergman
Language : Swedish
Antonius Block, a knight returning from a Crusade, seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against Death during the Black Plague
I read a bunch of books by Bill Bryson over the last month. My favourite ones are “I’m a Stranger here Myself” and “A Walk in the Woods”. I could relate to a lot of events and experiences in all these books of his, but the humour he sees in each of those experiences is so much fun.
Bryson has a hilarious sense of humour combined with a gift for ironical, yet very fond observation of the oddities.
Check this link out for the magical effects of Castor oil.
Castor oil (used externally) can cure skin problems, joint aches, swollen lymph nodes, digestion problems, age spots, leg pain, sleeplessness, improves liver detox, hemorrhoids, gallbladder pain etc etc.
And Castor Oil for beautiful skin and hair.
How to make and use a Castor oil patch:
Materials Required:
1. Three layers of undyed wool or cotton flannel large enough to cover the affected area
2. Castor oil
3. Plastic wrap cut one to two inches larger than the flannel (can be cut from a plastic bag)
4. Hot water bottle
5. Container with lid (Pyrex would be good)
6. Old clothes and sheets. Castor oil will stain clothing and bedding.
Method
1. Place the cotton cloth or flannel in the container. Soak it in castor oil so that it is saturated, but not dripping.
2. Place the pack over the affected body part.
3. Cover with plastic.
4. Place the hot water bottle over the pack. Leave it on for 45-60 minutes. Rest while the pack is in place.
(Do not heat the flannel in microwave. You can use the conventional oven if you want to warm it)
5. After removing the pack, cleanse the area with a dilute solution of water and baking soda. (The acidic toxins pulled out will be converted to harmless salts by the baking soda)
6. Store the pack in the covered container in the refrigerator. Each pack may be reused up to 25-30 times.
Read Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘The Search‘ today.
Enjoyed his storytelling style. In The Search, Saber a young man who had been living on his mother’s money, ventures out in search of his father after his mother dies. He is torn between Elham’s breeze like love and passion for Karima. Influenced by Karima, he kills her rich, old husband and has to pay for it. And finally, he hears some details about his dad…does that make him happy?
