January 22nd, 2010
Bookworm
Hello. My name is Krissy. And I’m a book-a-holic. (Hi Krissy.)
You don’t have to know me very well to know I’m a huge bookworm. In fact, for as long as I can remember, I’ve had a love affair with books. It’s quite like a disease. I don’t know how to turn it off. I hear about a book, I seek it out, I buy it. I see a shiny book, I drool, I buy it. Read. Buy. Read. Buy. Read. Buy. I can’t control it. There are few things that fill me with greater joy than possessing and diving head first into a new book, and consequently, as I lamented on Twitter earlier this week, I need Chapters rehab.
But this is not a post wallowing about spending my bread money on books. This is a post to celebrate the joys of reading! (As lame as that sounds. And I know it does.) It’s simply this: In recent months, with my hectic university schedule, it’s been difficult to fit in some quality reading time. It’s not until semester break that I really get to indulge myself. Curling up in bed in the middle of the afternoon and spending hours upon hours wasting away the day with a book – nothing could sound more delightful. For the past couple of weeks, gobbling up as much delicious literature as my brain can stomachi has been my mission…
…but my supplies are dwindling, and I need some recommendations! Voila, some of my favourite books:
♥ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
♥ The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
♥ The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
♥ The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
♥ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran-Foer
♥ The Hours by Michael Cunningham
♥ Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palaniuk
♥ Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
♥ The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
♥ Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
♥ Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
♥ Running with Scissors by Augusten Buroughs
♥ White Oleander by Janet Fitch
♥ Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
♥ The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
So please tell me some of your favourites. (Especially if they’re memoires! I lovelovelove memoires.) I need to go on a super duper library-exploring adventure! I have quite a list of books I intend to read eventually, and it’s terribly long, but I find I need to be in a certain frame of mind with my book selections. Perhaps it’s odd, but sometimes part of the whole thrill of reading for me is simply researching and seeking out a book, reading all about the author and their life, and then diving into one of their creations. (Don’t ask. I don’t get it either.)
I just finished reading Paulo Coehlo’s The Alchemist which was very uplifting and spiritually transformative. It was a peculiar story itself; it had a folk tale meets Arabian Nights meets philosophy textbook vibe, but I very much enjoyed it. It’s not an all-time favourite, but if I were to write a list of books I felt everyone should read in their lifetime, it would be on it. If nothing else, it leaves you feeling very optimistic, hopeful, refreshed. In a few words, it’s a story about seeking out your destiny against all odds.
“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.”
~ Henry Ward Beecher
- Oxymoron? (»)
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*writes all of these down* Since we have almost the same brain :P, I 100% trust your book recs. I actually meant to ask you about Amelie Nothomb a LONG time ago, and promptly forgot. So I’m glad you included a book in there. And I’m TOTALLY on top of Jane Eyre when I can finally get my book out of storage. :D
Merci for the recommendations fellow ‘Rissy team member! :P ♥
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