1. For One More Day by Mitch Albom - This is a nice book about appreciating life and what if we had one more day to spend with our loved one when they say their final goodbye. The themes of Albom's book are pretty much all the same. Same vein if you have read any of his other work, just as good.
2. The
Associate by John Grisham - Who can write better law thrillers than Grisham?
Not many. Good solid story about a lawyer caught between his conscience and an
industrial espionage ploy.
3. My
Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult – This story is about a family who have a
daughter that has cancer (I think?), then the family has the idea of
genetically engineering another child to be a perfect donor match for their
sick child, so she could donate bone marrow and blood for the sick child to
survive. This book is about their life journey, struggles, etc. The book
started off well enough, but I felt the story towards the middle and especially
the end was really terrible. Firstly I did not like the ending. Secondly all
the subplots are very self-serving and too nicely encapsulated within
themselves. Very predictable, not organic.
4. The
Street Lawyer by John Grisham – Another lawyer book. This is about a lawyer who
decided to trade in his high-paying corporate law job for a public interest law
job for the homeless. Defending the weak and poor as it were. He decides to do
this after undergoing a traumatic experience. I love Grisham books. Perhaps it
is his story-telling, very straightforward and to the point.
It made me wonder how colourful
and stressful lawyers’ lives are. Then I thought about my own work as an
engineer. I mean both are professional jobs, but I think if there is an
engineering story, it’d be like watching paint dry. If there are good
engineering stories out there, I’d be all for reading those too though. I guess
there would be great stories in the form of industrial espionage, the inspiration
of engineering creations. Nah, there is space for nice engineering fiction,
just need to find out who writes those…but for the moment, I am still very much
into Grishams. So will read a few more before I move on.
