I have finished reading yet another book by Paulo Coelho: Veronika Decides to Die.

Veronika Decides to Die (1998) is one of the three books in the trilogy And on the Seventh Day. The first book is By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994) and the concluding one which is The Devil and Miss Prym (2000).

Veronika, like the other two books, is concerned with a week in the life of ordinary people who are suddenly confronted with love, death, and power.

The Alchemist is an easy book to finish in one sitting. Although there are only 172 pages, the book is packed with profound thoughts. That's nothing unusual seeing that this is a work of Paulo Coelho.