Never Turn The Lights Off

It is wonderful how certain book can affect mood, mind or even personality. And how much effort one needs to put when choosing what to read. Most of the time book reflects how person is feeling at certain time, what is going through person's mind.  When I started this blog I chose to read more books in English because I thought that this will help me to get more people checking my blog. For couple of months I was really happy with my blog and that I am able to read in foreign language. However, my collection of English books is very small, mostly crime novels and that is deffinitely not my favorite genre. So, naturally, I got bored, I stopped reading and writing posts. Then later, I started to feel empty without spending my evenings with book in my hands. I thought, there is no better way to bring back my love for reading, than to start one of Stephen King's books. After all, he is one of my favorite authors. For some time that was enough, but spring came, nature woke u...

Each reader has moments when a book leaves them speechless. In my opinion this feeling is amazing but at the same time it's very thought-provoking. After reading an incredible book I start questioning myself how author wrote it, how came up with all those ideas, what inspired writer to create that particular story. Now more and more often I search for this kind of information about books and over some time I've learned that most of the answers hide in biographies of the authors. Some of the greatest stories are inspired from the real life events. Very often authors in the books hide their job experience, love life, or even an opinion on political situation. Of course they don't express their opinion directly, they hide it between the lines. So naturally every book becomes even more fascinating if you know under what circumstances it was written.  Therefore recently I purchased two biography books. Papa Hemingway by A. E. Hotchner  Ernest Hemingway is as eas...

I live in Lithuania, so as you can probably imagine, majority of books here are in Lithuanian. English books I can only find in bookstores in bigger cities or I can buy online. But I prefer buying books in bookshops, so because I live near small town, the only place to find English books here are thrift stores. Honestly, I prefer used books. I know, the way new books look, feel is amazing and scent of it is absolutely incredible. However, used book has a history. When you buy this kind of book, you buy not only story, but piece of someone's life as well. I don't mean it in any creepy way, all I want to say is that someone spent time reading that book. It means that this book made that person think, or feel something. And the idea of having the same story in my hands, fascinates me so much! I decided to start blog post series about my thrift store purchases and I want to show that good book doesn't always have to be brand new. The Surgeon by Tess G...

World is full of all kind of books: big, small, old, new, paperback or hardback. Even though we all know the saying ''don't judge a book by its cover'' , we still very often buy book because of its look, size or recommendations. Of course we all have different preferences. However, I can't understand when people say that the bigger the book, the better it's going to be. I've learned over some time that often the most extraordinary story can hide in a tiny or old and poorly looking book . This exactly describes the books in which I found some of my favourite stories. So I want to share with you my thoughts on one of my most recent but already beloved discovery. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954) In 1940 when England entered World War II  William Golding joined Royal Navy. This fact is very important because Golding's experience in WWII had effect on the way he saw the world. His service and all the events that happend o...

   My mom taught me to love reading since I was just a little girl. She gave me my first book when I was 6 months old and I literally chewed it. Our home was full of books and I always used to ask my mom to read something to me. When I finally learned to read myself I was 5 years old and since that day my passion for books grew together with me. My journey started from reading fairytales, later I moved on classic books for kids, but when I turned 11 I realised that I want something more, I no longer wanted to read books that kids my age were reading. That's then I finally felt brave enough to take a book from a huge stack of  books. Those books always felt so mysterious to me, all purple, all had different numbers written on them , and also two words  which said STEPHEN KING . B ack then I was a lready interested in horror so his books helped me to form my personality even more. Some of you might thing that 11 year old girl can't like horror or read King's...

  Life is full of ups and downs. Most of the time being on the lowest point makes us feel miserable. It's very important to find something that will make you happy again. And this is exactly what I'm doing. I'm starting this blog because I want to feel happy again. I want to talk about things that bring the most joy to my life. And those things are books. Reading takes up huge part in my life and also quite a lot of happy memories in my life are related with it. I love seeing how others talk about books with so much passion. So this is what I'm going to do as well. I'll write about that wonderful feeling when reading takes me up to the clouds. Hope you'll feel the same. Love, Rusne