The thing I love about reading books is when I imagine that story, when I become the character in the book. When I feel exact thing he feels. When he feels sad or confused, so am I. When you imagine these things you are in different world. When you are miserable you can take a book and read something that is beautifull or some happy-ending story and you can feel better. When the book is good, you don't want to stop reading it. You want to know what will happen. And interesting feeling is when you finish reading a book, you don't know what to do. You are still in the book's world. You don't want to exit it. But only the good books can make it.
But there were many books that I didn't like, for example "The Trial" by Kafka. It is about the trial of the main character who is occused of something but he can't find out of what. So he has a trial and what's more funny he is sentenced but he don't know what was his crime.... Another book I didn't like was "The Deluge" by Henryk Sienkiewicz. It is polish epopee so it is important for us to know this book. And of course Sienkiewicz is the Nobel prize winner so he is important for us. But the book has many characters and many plots and I think it is too hard for me to read or for any teenager. I think it might be a good story but you have to grow up to this. And I haven't yet... And there are many books that are similar to "The Deluge" and that is why students don't like them.
Friday, December 18, 2015
Sunday, December 6, 2015
The Notebook
The Notebook
It wouldn't be a girl's blog about books if there wasn't any romance mentioned... And my favourite is "The notebook" by Nicolas Sparks. I also saw a movie first and then read a book but this is special one because this is the first book i read in original language... it is English of course... I acctually didn't understand all but it was a curious expirience and deffinitelly it won't be the last one. I am still working on my languages.
There are a lot of romances by Nicolas Sparks "The last song", "Dear John" which i also read and loved it. And there are many movies based on these books. But my favourite is "The notebook". It is about a high -born girl and a poor boy. They meet and fall in love from the first sight. They spend whole summer together. But holidays don't last forever and later she had to go to college. So she left and he promised her he will write to her. And he did. He wrote a letter every day. But she didn't get these because her mother took them from her because she didn't want her daughter to marry a poor boy without the future. So the girl thought he forget about her. But he didn't, both of them still loved each other. She met a new guy and she was to marry him, they were engaged. And then she saw old lover in a newspaper. She decided to meet him and ask why didn't he write to her, why did he forget about her. So he explained it wasn't true. And they were together again. But the book is in their future and this story is a retrospection. When they are old, the lady get sick and she didn't remember anything but that her name was Ally... She didn't remember Noah, her love and husband. So he meet her everyday and tell her he is Duke and he read her the notebook that she had wrote earlier about their story. And sometimes she remembere that it was her and his story but not always... I think it is a beautifull story.
It wouldn't be a girl's blog about books if there wasn't any romance mentioned... And my favourite is "The notebook" by Nicolas Sparks. I also saw a movie first and then read a book but this is special one because this is the first book i read in original language... it is English of course... I acctually didn't understand all but it was a curious expirience and deffinitelly it won't be the last one. I am still working on my languages.
There are a lot of romances by Nicolas Sparks "The last song", "Dear John" which i also read and loved it. And there are many movies based on these books. But my favourite is "The notebook". It is about a high -born girl and a poor boy. They meet and fall in love from the first sight. They spend whole summer together. But holidays don't last forever and later she had to go to college. So she left and he promised her he will write to her. And he did. He wrote a letter every day. But she didn't get these because her mother took them from her because she didn't want her daughter to marry a poor boy without the future. So the girl thought he forget about her. But he didn't, both of them still loved each other. She met a new guy and she was to marry him, they were engaged. And then she saw old lover in a newspaper. She decided to meet him and ask why didn't he write to her, why did he forget about her. So he explained it wasn't true. And they were together again. But the book is in their future and this story is a retrospection. When they are old, the lady get sick and she didn't remember anything but that her name was Ally... She didn't remember Noah, her love and husband. So he meet her everyday and tell her he is Duke and he read her the notebook that she had wrote earlier about their story. And sometimes she remembere that it was her and his story but not always... I think it is a beautifull story.
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Tristan et Iseult
This is the first book I had to read during my studies which I like. In fact it was the secend we were talking about.... But I did like this one. It is something similar with "Romeo and Juliet". The tragic love where the both die... But there is something magical in this tale.
Fist we meet Tristan, who's mother dies from the sorrow, because her husband had died. Only having baby was saving her life, but when he had been born she died. She told that her boy was born in the great sorrow and that's why his name will be Tristan (trist in french is sad). He had a tough life from the beggining. He was high-born but no one knew including Tristan.
Tristan is captured by the pirates and when they are on the board big storm beggins. The pirates fineally decided to give up on Tristan and they put him into the boat and they left him and survive, the pirates and Tristan.
There is something about the sea. It is deciding about his life.
Fist we meet Tristan, who's mother dies from the sorrow, because her husband had died. Only having baby was saving her life, but when he had been born she died. She told that her boy was born in the great sorrow and that's why his name will be Tristan (trist in french is sad). He had a tough life from the beggining. He was high-born but no one knew including Tristan.
Tristan is captured by the pirates and when they are on the board big storm beggins. The pirates fineally decided to give up on Tristan and they put him into the boat and they left him and survive, the pirates and Tristan.
There is something about the sea. It is deciding about his life.
Friday, November 20, 2015
Pride and Prejudice
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austin. I read this book because I saw the movie. I love movies when the characters wear long and beautiful dresses, they attend to the balls and everyone call each other "Mister/Misses" even if they are married! But not only movies. I love also books like that, for example "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte <3, "Wuthering hights" by Emily Bronte, "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens, etc..
I think it is better to see the movie first and then read a book because the other way makes the movie hopeless even if it's good. So it is so just to appreciaete the movie.
This book is about a miss who comes from poor family and she has a lot of sisters to get married. She met MR. Darcy of whom she had heard is a muckety-muck. She think that he ruind her sister's marriage with a friend of Darcy, because she was poor. And there are a lot of bad things about him that she heard but they weren't true ... So she is prejudiced to him. Finelly he admitted he is in love with her but she can't accept this. After a while she finds out the things she thought about him wasn't true and he is acctually pretty good man for a husband and that she loves him too. She tells it to him and her father approves the marriage. I love this love story because I think it is different then others.
I think it is better to see the movie first and then read a book because the other way makes the movie hopeless even if it's good. So it is so just to appreciaete the movie.
This book is about a miss who comes from poor family and she has a lot of sisters to get married. She met MR. Darcy of whom she had heard is a muckety-muck. She think that he ruind her sister's marriage with a friend of Darcy, because she was poor. And there are a lot of bad things about him that she heard but they weren't true ... So she is prejudiced to him. Finelly he admitted he is in love with her but she can't accept this. After a while she finds out the things she thought about him wasn't true and he is acctually pretty good man for a husband and that she loves him too. She tells it to him and her father approves the marriage. I love this love story because I think it is different then others.
Monday, November 16, 2015
"The Old Man and the Sea"
"The Old Man and the Sea"
A book I remember from school is "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. A lot of people said that it is reaaaalllyyyy boring. But not for me. I enjoyed this book. It is about an old fishman who set out to sea. He didn't angle anything for long. He said that it is his eight hundred...... something day of not catching anything and it is his lucky day. And he was right. He got an enormous fish. But the story is about the whole journey. So when he catches this fish, what was really hard to do, he had to pull this fish in the sea because it was too big to get it into a boat. It was dangerous. Of course he didn't manage to get the fish to the land. The fish was eaten by the sharks. When he got into the beach he was so exhausted of this journey that he almost died and only skeleton left of the fish. But everyone was impressed when they saw the skeleton.
A book I remember from school is "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. A lot of people said that it is reaaaalllyyyy boring. But not for me. I enjoyed this book. It is about an old fishman who set out to sea. He didn't angle anything for long. He said that it is his eight hundred...... something day of not catching anything and it is his lucky day. And he was right. He got an enormous fish. But the story is about the whole journey. So when he catches this fish, what was really hard to do, he had to pull this fish in the sea because it was too big to get it into a boat. It was dangerous. Of course he didn't manage to get the fish to the land. The fish was eaten by the sharks. When he got into the beach he was so exhausted of this journey that he almost died and only skeleton left of the fish. But everyone was impressed when they saw the skeleton.
Saturday, November 7, 2015
The Little Prince
"The Little Prince"
Another book is "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. It is about a boy who travel around the planets. On his own planet he lived with Rose. He loved her but Rose loved more herself that the Little Prince. So he left her and beggin to travel. He met a lot of people in different planets and every of them thought him something. The most beautiful part of this book for me is when he met a Fox. Because the Fox told him that he is responsible for those he tamed. And of course it is not only about animals but about people. When we love someone we tame that person. That person is used to us. If the one you love left you you wouldn't know what to do with your life. You would feel empty inside... I Think this part is about it to be carreful who we tame.
I like that the author showed us that children's mind can be so flexible and the adults' is close and has borders. And it is shown at the beginning of the book with sheep that is closed in the box because adult couldn't draw a picture of the perfect sheep for Little Prince or at the picture of the elephant eaten by snake - everybody saw there a hat.
I love this book. I think it is a fairytale for children but deeper it is also a great book for the adults. Even the adult can take something from this book. I read this book twice, But I'm sure that I will come back to this story.
Another book is "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. It is about a boy who travel around the planets. On his own planet he lived with Rose. He loved her but Rose loved more herself that the Little Prince. So he left her and beggin to travel. He met a lot of people in different planets and every of them thought him something. The most beautiful part of this book for me is when he met a Fox. Because the Fox told him that he is responsible for those he tamed. And of course it is not only about animals but about people. When we love someone we tame that person. That person is used to us. If the one you love left you you wouldn't know what to do with your life. You would feel empty inside... I Think this part is about it to be carreful who we tame.
I like that the author showed us that children's mind can be so flexible and the adults' is close and has borders. And it is shown at the beginning of the book with sheep that is closed in the box because adult couldn't draw a picture of the perfect sheep for Little Prince or at the picture of the elephant eaten by snake - everybody saw there a hat.
I love this book. I think it is a fairytale for children but deeper it is also a great book for the adults. Even the adult can take something from this book. I read this book twice, But I'm sure that I will come back to this story.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
William Shakespear
My favourite quote:
Macbeth:
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Macbeth:
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
The Great Gatsby
After I had finished my second year of high school I got a book from my teacher for good marks (it is a common prize for good results at Polish schools :))... But! It wasn't a boring science book... I recieved "the Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fortuneatly there was a movie on at the cinema, so the book has been at the bookshops.
I didn't want to see the movie. But I was interested in this book. So I started. It was holiday, so there wasn't much time... But I wanted and I read it.
I suppose that everybody who is a native english and attend to english literature classes have read this one..
It seems that it is just a book about some guy who is so rich that throws a parties every week that all of the New Yorkers want to attend. But the funny thing is that no one knows Gatsby and what he looks like. Everybody has heard of him, of his parties but no one knew him by themselves.
The book starts when the main character Nick moves in the house next to the Gatsby's. He met him and wierd things are going on between old friends. For example, Gatsby wanted to meet Daisy, his old girlfriend who had broken up with him because she hadn't wanted to wait for him until he became rich, but as far he was poor and I don't think she had believed he would ever become one. So she married Tom. And Gatsby wanted Daisy back.
The saddest thing in this book is when Gatsby is assassined by a man who thought Gatsby had killed his wife in a car accident. Of course Gatsby didn't do that. It was Daisy whom Gatsby covered. The murderer thought also like that because of the Daisy's husband's betrayal. He was collapsed because the woman who had died was his lover. But after all, Nick had to organise a funeral. And here was the biggest problem, what is the saddest part of the book. There was no one who wanted to come. Everyone wanted to attend his parties, see his wealth but no one wanted to come at his funeral. The only persons who came was Nick and Gatsby's father, Mr. Gatz. He told Nick that Gatsby's real name is James Gatz, that he comes from poor family from North Dakota. It was shocking, because Gatsby told Nick that he comes from rich family from San Francisco.
(Allow me to degress a little: I don't like when people do a such thing... That they lie just to be seen as better, to think he is better... I don't like when people are ashamed of the place and family they come from... And these are not just empty words because I come from a little village in Poland, I doubt if there are more than few people who acctually know where Poland is... And no one in Poland knows where my village is. ;x But I am not ashamed. I am proud cause i could have met people i met and become a person i have become. )
I like this book because I like sad endings. I like to cry when something bad is going on with the main character. It is silly, but when it happens I really enjoy reading the book. There are a lot of things I didn't understand in "Great Gatsby", like bilboard with big eyes and glasses... But, I enjoyed it anyway.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Cemetery of the Books World
I decided to continue to write about my favourite book and its world. Because it is so interesting for me, that it deserve more than one post.
Alors,
There are three parts of this story:
first book : "Shadow of the Wind",
second is "The Angel's Game"
and the third is "Prisoner of Heaven"
There is going to be fourth book and I am long to read it. I acctually check it all the time whether it was published yet or not.
The thing about the titles:
I love the way Zafon came up with it. They are a paradox, two words eliminate each other, it is some kinda oxymoron... I love it :D first: Shadow of the wind - we are not able to see the wind and neither its shadow. And its funny because I don't see the connection between the title and the plot... or maybe i missed something... not sure.
next: The Angel's Game - angel is pure goodness, it is close to God, almost perfect, Guardian Angel - someone who cares about us, who watch us all the time and protect us from all the bad things. And someone who's playing with us in some game? something's not right... And here, I see obvious connection to the title: Andreas Corelli is an angel but the fallen one. He's playing with David's mind. He meets him at the great villa, where everything overwhelm David, and the next day it's empty ruin for many years.
next: Prisoner of Heaven - heaven is something where we feel joy, freedom and here we have a prisoner- someone who is not free, who is limitted. So how can anyone be a Prisoner of Heaven? I guess it is about prison for mind. In this book David is in prison (he is not mentioned in the first book of the serie and in this one he is only mentioned, this continue the first book's plot) but he is treated well, he has everything he wants.
The serie of Cemetery of the Books
The thing that connects this serie is Cemetery of the Books, Sempere family and their bookstore. The interesting place is of course Cemetery of the Books because it is a place which is known only by people who can be trusted and there are few people who know about it. The place is hidden under Barcelona. It is build with the books, and I mean it: the walls of books create the halls, the shelves are built with books. It acctually sounds awesome for me. All you can see there are books. Sounds wonderful. The rule of this place is that you cannot tell anyone, unless he deserves it and can be trusted. The next rule is that when you are there for the first time, you have to choose one book and be its guardian until your death. It is about not forgetting books that are forgotten... :P. To keep the book alive, it must be remembered and read all over again. that's why you guard your book which you have chosen.
Alors,
There are three parts of this story:
first book : "Shadow of the Wind",
second is "The Angel's Game"
and the third is "Prisoner of Heaven"
There is going to be fourth book and I am long to read it. I acctually check it all the time whether it was published yet or not.
The thing about the titles:
I love the way Zafon came up with it. They are a paradox, two words eliminate each other, it is some kinda oxymoron... I love it :D first: Shadow of the wind - we are not able to see the wind and neither its shadow. And its funny because I don't see the connection between the title and the plot... or maybe i missed something... not sure.
next: The Angel's Game - angel is pure goodness, it is close to God, almost perfect, Guardian Angel - someone who cares about us, who watch us all the time and protect us from all the bad things. And someone who's playing with us in some game? something's not right... And here, I see obvious connection to the title: Andreas Corelli is an angel but the fallen one. He's playing with David's mind. He meets him at the great villa, where everything overwhelm David, and the next day it's empty ruin for many years.
next: Prisoner of Heaven - heaven is something where we feel joy, freedom and here we have a prisoner- someone who is not free, who is limitted. So how can anyone be a Prisoner of Heaven? I guess it is about prison for mind. In this book David is in prison (he is not mentioned in the first book of the serie and in this one he is only mentioned, this continue the first book's plot) but he is treated well, he has everything he wants.
The serie of Cemetery of the Books
The thing that connects this serie is Cemetery of the Books, Sempere family and their bookstore. The interesting place is of course Cemetery of the Books because it is a place which is known only by people who can be trusted and there are few people who know about it. The place is hidden under Barcelona. It is build with the books, and I mean it: the walls of books create the halls, the shelves are built with books. It acctually sounds awesome for me. All you can see there are books. Sounds wonderful. The rule of this place is that you cannot tell anyone, unless he deserves it and can be trusted. The next rule is that when you are there for the first time, you have to choose one book and be its guardian until your death. It is about not forgetting books that are forgotten... :P. To keep the book alive, it must be remembered and read all over again. that's why you guard your book which you have chosen.
The Angel's Game
"The Angel's Game" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
This is my favourite book among all of these I have read. I found it at my sister's shelf, by accident. I was just bored and I wanted to read something. I had two options: "The Angel's Game" by some author I haven't heard about.... and one of Paulo Coelho's book (my sister liked his books very much when she was a teenager). I just thought that this one with mysterious title will be more interesting. So I started... And I couldn't stop...
It is about a writer who was commissioned to write a religion book like "new Bible" by mysterious publisher Andreas Corelli. This character is really odd, and it seems that he has a magic power. For me he is somebody like devil who makes a pact with human (so it is a bit similar to Faust but the main character of this book : David Martin gets only money and wierd experience). From the other sight, it seems like David has only imaginations about this figure and he doesn't really exist which is in some way confirmed in the next Zafón's books. This book is also about love, murders and unsolved cases. So it is really Mysterious book with a capital M. Of course the murders in this plot are conected with the main character but from the David's point of view , he didn't commit any of them. But in the same time he is charged...
I love this book because of its mysterious. There are a lot of things that I'm not sure if they are true or not.
This is my favourite book because when I read it I am overwhelmed of it. There is a beautiful love but the lovers can't be together and finelly one of them is dead of course in mysterious way which is veeery sad...You love your character David and you feel like you were him: when he's in trouble, you feel like you were in trouble, when he lose his love it is your heart which is broken, you cry.
I also love the part in this book which is at more or less the end of the book when everything you have read comes out as NOT TRUE. it was really confusing...Because you don't know if it was true, or not... and the Book doesn't answear this question, and neither the next one in this serie. But i loved this part just because of that.
I cannot wait until the next part will be published... to know how the plot ends and what was true and what was not.
This is my favourite book among all of these I have read. I found it at my sister's shelf, by accident. I was just bored and I wanted to read something. I had two options: "The Angel's Game" by some author I haven't heard about.... and one of Paulo Coelho's book (my sister liked his books very much when she was a teenager). I just thought that this one with mysterious title will be more interesting. So I started... And I couldn't stop...
It is about a writer who was commissioned to write a religion book like "new Bible" by mysterious publisher Andreas Corelli. This character is really odd, and it seems that he has a magic power. For me he is somebody like devil who makes a pact with human (so it is a bit similar to Faust but the main character of this book : David Martin gets only money and wierd experience). From the other sight, it seems like David has only imaginations about this figure and he doesn't really exist which is in some way confirmed in the next Zafón's books. This book is also about love, murders and unsolved cases. So it is really Mysterious book with a capital M. Of course the murders in this plot are conected with the main character but from the David's point of view , he didn't commit any of them. But in the same time he is charged...
I love this book because of its mysterious. There are a lot of things that I'm not sure if they are true or not.
This is my favourite book because when I read it I am overwhelmed of it. There is a beautiful love but the lovers can't be together and finelly one of them is dead of course in mysterious way which is veeery sad...You love your character David and you feel like you were him: when he's in trouble, you feel like you were in trouble, when he lose his love it is your heart which is broken, you cry.
I also love the part in this book which is at more or less the end of the book when everything you have read comes out as NOT TRUE. it was really confusing...Because you don't know if it was true, or not... and the Book doesn't answear this question, and neither the next one in this serie. But i loved this part just because of that.
I cannot wait until the next part will be published... to know how the plot ends and what was true and what was not.
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