1. "Miop teen's novel" by Mircea Eliade
With this book I became a nineteenth-grade reader in my first high school semester. Of course I know to read before, but I remember that after reading it, I wanted to become a reader when I was great. I mean, I'm staying all day and reading. The book deserves to be read by any high school caretaker who wants a comrade with whom to share his speeches (n.r. monologues).
2. "Crime and Punishment" by Feodor Dostoevsky
Even if I'm a curious and very curious fire, I think life is not worth trying any experience just for the sake of the novelty. I would not want, for example, to kill a man just to see what it is. However, I managed to live this through the skin of the Raskolnikov character in this book and it was a great experience. Literature gives us this opportunity to know something without living directly. Such books are education for the heart.
3. "The Seagull Jonathan Livingston" by Richard Bach
Written by a grandson of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach, this book is a great exhortation for perfection and one of the list of books you can read in a lifetime. It is a parable of excellence, will and the importance of the community. After reading this text, I have changed my hierarchy of values and brought back the excellence in the top three. The book reads in an hour and is worth recitement once a year.
4. "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAs we get older, the nostalgia of innocence reaches ever greater odds. Characters like the Little Prince, Prince Michael (the idiot) or Don Quixote bring us to the goodness, idealism and nausea. The young prince and his rose teach us that we clearly do not see clearly with the heart, that friends can not buy them ready and that all the big men were once children, even if not all of them remember."Judging yourself is far more difficult than judging others. If you come to judge yourself properly, it means that you are indeed a wise man. "
5. "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
A tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that, despite its profound flaws, gave the author the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an "excitement addict." Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever.
Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town -- and the family -- Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents' betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home.
What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out, but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity. Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
For two decades, Jeannette Walls hid her roots. Now she tells her own story.
