"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting" - Edmund Burke. Thus here is my literary life spread out before you in all its meandering glory...
Sunday, 6 March 2011
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
incredibly well written and a very poignant and sad story :(
"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart." ~ Gilbert Highet
Not a lot to tell really. I work, eat, sleep and generally try to be a good person (although in my job it's hard sometimes!). I am a true Piscean in every sense; easy going and pretty chilled out most of the time which is why after studying for my degree in Advertising I decided not to persue that particular career path (thinking up new ways to sell the same products to people who don't really need them? I don't think so!) and decided to fly by the seat of my pants instead and fell into my current job. I am pretty easy to please and at the end of the day, as long as I have a shelf full of books waiting to be read, I'm happy :) Maybe one day would like to open a quaint little book store somewhere (just like The Shop Around the Corner in 'You've Got Mail') and also write my own novel one day - if I can scrape together some daily free time and focus my attention for long enough. Would also like to keep a couple of horses and drive about in my Mitsubishi Evo or Subaru Impreza on the weekend too. Best I'd better make that novel a best-selling one then... or else marry rich or win the lottery...! I also have a notebook fetish :) xxx
"To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare." ~ Kenko Yoshida