Bookworms of JF, what's your favorite book (s) and why?

Hiki kitabu nakitafuta naomba weka pdf kama unayo
 
The book you are reading now?
 
Nilivosoma na kuvikubali zaidi. Kila kimoja kwa sababu flani;
1.The divine supermarket by Malise Ruthven
2.The undercover economist by Tim Harford
3.A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
4.1000 thousands nights in one night.hiki sijawahi kukimaliza na bahati mbaya the best pdf niliyokuwa nayo nilipoteza
5.Christmass tree and the wedding by Fiodyor Dotsoevsky
6.Comparative worth of different races by Francis Gaton
7.Anna Karenina by Leon Tolstoy
NB:Mwenye vitabu vya Godfather,Crime and punishment,Brothers Karamazov,The master and Margarita aweke hapa.
 
Aliyeanzisha Uzi huu, pongezi kwake.
Kumbe tuna wasomaji tele kilanmtu akijiongezea ujuzi kimya kimya, nimevutiwa Sana na hili.
Kwa upande wangu, mapenzi na vitabu yalianzia nilipokuwa sekondari zaidi pamoja na masomo na mchepuo nilioenda kusoma.
Babu na Bibi pia walikuwa nanmsukumo mkubwa Sana tangu utotoni kila nilipowatembelea nilipokuwa likizo kwani nakumbuka kuwepo kwa kabati la vitabu na ukali wa babu anapokukuta umekaa bila Cha kufanya na vitabu vipo.

Kwa mwaka huu lengo langu lilikuwa kusoma vitabu 20 na mpaka mwezi ujao nikijaaliwa nguvu na pasipo maingiliano yoyote nitatimiza kwani kwa Sasa Niko Kitabu Cha 19.

Vifuatavyo ni baadhi ya vitabu nilivyosoma mwaka huu ambavyo vimeniachia alama ya kudumu na mguso wa kipekee:
1. The Subtle art of not giving a f*ck - Mark Mason
2. Capitalist Nigger - Chika Onyeani
3. Peaks & Valleys - Spencer Johnson
4. Black Privilege - Charlemagne That God
5. Things my son needs to know about the world - Fredrick Blackman
6. Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7. Life's Not fair but God is good - Robert R. Schuller
8. Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
9. Letter to my daughter - Dr. Maya Angelou
10. Who will cry when you die - Robin Sharma
11. The leader who had no title - Robin Sharma
12. The 5 love languages - Gary Chapman
13. The power of habit - Charles Duhigg
14. The richest man in Babylon - George Clason
15. The Smart money woman - Arese Ugwu
 
My list is simply too long.

I just finished "Quantum: A Guide For The Perplexed". Fascinating insight into Quantum Physics.

I enjoy biographies. I am a big fan of David McCullough. His Pulitzer winner "Truman" makes you feel like you are living with the characters in the book. I enjoyed it very much when it came out.

I did enyoy The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy immensely when I read it in the nineties. Adams must have been smoking some kind of mushrooms when he wrote this book. When I think of "Vogon poetry" sometime link that to some of our politicians speeches.

I am heavily biased towards non fiction. Economics, behavioral sciences (I just finished Malcolm Gladwell's "Talking to Strangers: What We Know About The People We Should Know", well worth the read) current affairsand politics (I recently read Francis Fukuyama's "Identity: The Demand Fir Dignity and The Politics of Resentment". It gave me a better understanding if people like Mohamed Said.

I like science. I enjoyed immensely Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History if Time: From The Big Bang to Black Holes" in the nineties. I recently read his posthumously published book "Brief Answers To The Big Questions".

I enjoy reading about philosophy and religion. "The Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology" was such an eye opener when I read it in the mid 1990s.

I am trying to get back into fiction. The last fiction book I read was "A Gentleman In Moscow" by Amor Towles. Fascinating read. It is another period piece that takes you from the pre-Bolshevik Russia to the revolution era and beyond, through the eyes if an aristocrat gentleman and a little girl, trapped in the grand hotel of Moscow.

I like essays. I recently gathered to courage to mount the brick sized tome that is Christopher Hitchen's "Arguably: Selected Essays" . The man has encycloepadic knowledge of extraordinary proportions.

I recently read "India: A Portrait" by Patrick French. Very goid for aquinting onesekf with the idiosyncracies of India.

Bill Bryson is another author I find very interesting. His "A Brief History of Nearly everything" was very fascinating. He has a new book about the body, I have bought it but I haven't had the pleasure if reading.

David W Blight's "Frederick Douglas: A Prophet if Freedom", a Pulitzer winner, was another fascinating read I devoured in the oast few months. I thought I knew a lot about Mr. Douglas, until I read this book.

These are some of the books I have enjoyed, mostly within the last 6 months, if not stated..

A full list would simply be too long.
 
I have read these books
1. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
2. As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
3. Who Will Cry When You Die by Robin Sharma
4. The Instant Millionaire by Mark Fisher
5. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
6. The Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason
7. Master of the Game by Sidney Sheldon
8. The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
Etc.


The overarching reason for reading those books is: They make me a better person day after day, I learn a lot of things, I discover some important secrets, just to mention a few.
 

"Learn from your past and be better because of your past" she would say, "but don't cry about your past,life is full of pain, let the pain sharpen you, but don't hold on to it. Don't be bitter"..!![emoji173][emoji173][emoji173][emoji173]

Thank you twinnie, would you mind sharing the the book? I got inspired by your post.
 
 

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