The Omega Factor

The Omega Factor by Steve Berry
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I found this book so tiresome that decided that the effort of reading is not worthy of reading the full story.
On one hand I feel respect to the author for digging into all these details and I envy him visiting such exciting places with the knowledge of their historical background, on the other hand - it did not compensate effort of reading quite messy and artificial story :(

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Life in 3G

My friend from the church declared that his current priorities are - 3G - God, Girls and Golf.
My contact with golf is none, girls... from the distance.
Grumbling and Grave look much closer, still today I realised that we have a beautiful golf course in the park 1 kilometre from the house.

We've had beautiful, sunny days lately. A few times a week, while driving to a nearby market in the morning, I pass this field and admire the beautiful grass, wonderfully rolling hills, all behind a light curtain of fog illuminated by the rising sun.

Unfortunately, I cannot document it with photos because there is no place to park a car.
I tried in the afternoon from the other side.
I drove car to the nearby park and noticed that somebody was watching me...

I thought that these nice creatures will also monitor my car and in good spirit walked towards the golf course. Unfortunately the park is on the hill, the golf course goes down so it was difficult to take a good photo, so we have what we have...

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Walking track is rather short, access to the golf course is limited so I moved back to the park, under the trees.

Bang! 
Something hit me strongly in the shoulder.
Alarm!!! They are playing golf outside the course!
I looked down for a golf ball.... I found this....

The pine of the tree under which I walked...

I felt good emotions,
The NATURE gave me a friendly nudge - I am here, near you - enjoy.

Love etc.

Love, etc. by Julian Barnes
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Long time ago I read Talking It Over which we is a prequel to this book.
I do not remember much from this book other than a specific format - instead of plot run by a narrator it was a sort of confession where all characters were reporting their actions, thoughts and reflections to some third party.
I found it interesting.... correction - I found it interesting and entertaining because of Oliver.
I wonder what prompted Julian Barnes to write a sequel, sometimes I think that he would like to be in position of Oliver - simply - J.B. is extremely knowledgable and eloquent - maybe he is longing for a silent and attentive listener/reader.
Returning to the book - unfortunately, this time I found Oliver's phantasies flat and dull. Beside it, his actions or rather lack of those is pathetic.
Other characters - first of all - too many of them. I do not remember how many characters were monitored in Talking It Over, but here -definitely I was confused by them.
Secondly - the plot - to be honest I lost interest in main characters and stopped to worry about them.

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