Charity shops and stationary

I haven't really posted in a while, so I might just document a "book haul" I had experienced yesterday. I went out to the local shops with my friend Sophie, and the original plan was to buy lots of stationary for school again.
The only things I managed to buy in relation to that was a considerably cheap notebook and a considerably cheap pack of pens. That's it.

The rest of the time was spent traipsing around from one charity shop to the other, hunting for books like no tomorrow. This was a good idea. I came home with six.

The bottom one is The Godfather, which I was very pleased about because it was in excellent condition and I got it for only £1!

It is fancy, no? I really love it!

I finished reading Cat's Eye last night. I thought it was a great book, the ending was slightly wishy-washy in my opinion but it was the content itself that was great. Some bits didn't exactly have my eyes glued to the page, but obviously it would be difficult to be able to be interested in every aspect of Elaine Risley's life. Or perhaps that simply wasn't the case. I think I reached a point where overlapping description got too much for me. But the symbolism in this book was brilliant. I love the descriptions of her paintings and how time was integrated so seamlessly into the novel. Took me a while to read it, which is rare, I tend to finish books quite quickly, but the book basically documented the protagonist's life from around 6 or 7 to her late forties.

Now I have started reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. I'm up to chapter 83. Oh, yes, of course. The chapters are in prime numbers so I'm actually on chapter 22. I have high hopes for this book, I've heard a lot of praise about it. I love how simplistic the book is, yet it's captivating that way. The mind of someone with Asperger's Syndrome is so interesting. Yet it is strange considering that I think in a completely different way than him: Christopher, the protagonist, thinks in numbers and science. I think with words and feelings. But in some weird parallel, I understand everything he means, how he feels or doesn't feel. He makes so much sense and makes me feel quite pretentious with my words and feelings.

Funny the emotions a book can bring out of you. 

I supposed I should go make coffee now, I'm literally slumping at my desk from tiredness. Ciao for now.

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Don Quixote

Light reading, anyone?

I'm just kidding. This is the next book I will be attacking, whilst simultaneously reading Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (which you can slyly see in the background of that picture in the green binding.).

Cat's Eye is compulsory reading for school. So far, I think it's brilliant. I love the way in which Atwood has incorporated time seamlessly. Atwood did a fantastic job on it. The plot is also very alluring - I'm trying to see where the book is taking me at the moment; the more pieces of information is getting unfurled, the deeper I'm falling in between the lines. Elaine's character is great too - she's one that I can relate with, despite the age in which she is telling the story from (frequent ages, may I add).

Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote" was just something lying in my parents' reading shelf and I decided to pick it up. I promised myself I'd read more classics over the summer, and there is no way on earth I'm backing out of that promise.

Summer has been pretty busy - in fact, "summer" in academic reference hasn't even begun yet. As of Wednesday, I will supposedly be "free" to be lazy. That, of course, is hardly my intention this summer. I need to be 100% topped up on knowledge and culture. Lectures, museum exhibitions, summer schools, workshops,  events of all shapes and sizes need to be attended to.

Perhaps it's time to buy a calendar soon? And maybe a gigantic pot of coffee whilst I'm at it.

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