What the Bleep do I know?

I have just finished reading 'From Science to God: A Physicist's Journey into the Mystery of Consciousness by Peter Russell. It's only a slim book so it didn't take long. For most of the book he explains in a very clear and easily understood way about the basic tenets of physics (because of him many things have become clear to me that previously went over my head). He writes a little about his own personal journey and how got where he is today. Towards the end of the book he talks about various belief and religious systems, this stuff I knew inside out but read it nonetheless.

The book confirmed that I do have a deep interest in the increasing connections between Quantum Physics and Mysticisim/consciousness, an interest which was started by the film 'What the Bleep do we Know'? I'm now reading the book that was written after the film. My next book will be:

Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists" by Ken Wilber

I have also signed up to a website that sends out Inspirational/Spiritual type DVDs on a monthly basis (to keep). I'm really looking forward to the first batch.

The Memory keeper's Daughter

"The Memory Keepers Daughter" is a brilliantly crafted family drama that explores every mothers silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Downs syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by David Henrys fateful decision that long-ago winter night. A rich and deeply moving page-turner, "The Memory Keepers Daughter" captures the way life takes unexpected turns and how the mysterious ties that hold a family together help us survive the heartache that occurs when long-buried secrets burst into the open. It is an astonishing tale of redemptive love.



I wanted to read as loads of Bookcrossing.com members have read it so I thought I'd see why it's been so popular.

I thought the premise of the story was great, it got me emotionally involved very early on in the book and I just had to see how things turned out. It was interesting thinking about how I would've reacted to David's predicament if I was viewing his situation from 1964 rather than 2008.

I thought the book went on rather too long and found myself speed reading towards the end, but on the whole this was a thought provoking read.