To Trim Perceptions

At first, I was clueless.  But slowly, after reading more and more reviews on books, I started to see a dim light shining from afar. Due to my recently developed interest in Biographies, I first looked into the genre.  I've always wanted to read Path to Power and Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher, the most powerful and tenacious female public figure in the 20 th century.  But I soon came to realize that if I was aiming to find a book with eminent literary features; my chance would be better if I was looking at other genres, because the importance of autobiographies is in their accuracy instead of artistic writing and narration.  And I’m not so keen on reading autobiographies of writers. Path to Power, a book I've always longed to read, but it's really difficult to find.   Next, I turned to the classics.  I'd fell in love with Shakespeare ever since I read Hamlet last fall.  It was my first encounter with Shakespeare, and I was sw...

part of the books on my shelves Determined to find the “perfect book” (which I know is an horrible and inaccurate phrase), I was surfing through literary reviews and comments on great writers for the past four days. Clicking on entries, looking into promising authors and typing into Amazon search box took nearly all of my time online, which was very, very much, comparing to my usual behavior. I might have gone a little over the top. I have been exhilarated, or invigorate, to be more exact. The excitement was electrifying and almost dangerous, but I had still decided to let my passion lead the way. After all, a good dose of energy is never a bad thing, is it? In spite my devotion to Chinese literature for the past decade, I have no knowledge over the culture, the standards, or the participating individuals in English Literature circle. While browsing through bookshelves in a Chinese bookstore, I can always relate what I see with what I already know. I can under...