The title of the book is "Catfish and Mandala" by Andrew X. Pham. I will read this in my English Writing class at college, so I bought this in order to read some of the pages ahead of time.
The magazine I bought was "Gramophone", which is a professional journal about classical music. I had never bought this kind of magazine about classical music in the USA, so I was fascinated to discover this magazine. The reason I bought this was that my teacher in English class assigned us to bring an article in a journal or a whole journal tomorrow. We will write an essay based on this journal article. I hope I can get an A on the next essay, too.