Lavishing Libraries? Most Definitely.

So, it's now Tuesday 8th March 2011, which also means that in two days I will be home for a long weekend! Indeed yes, I'm very happy.

Well anyway, it's rather early in the morning and I'm sat here quietly waiting for an appropriate hour to start getting ready for uni. Not that I can actually be bothered dragging myself there of course. Presentation tomorrow. lovely...I think our lecturer wants to destroy our souls or something.

I finished 'Lolita' and I can safely say it is one of the best novels I have read so far. You kind of feel sorry for the guy until you remember that he's clearly a peadophile. I can't wait to peruse the library again tomorrow. Oh the joyous moment when you find a book long searched for and now within your own grasp is completely inexplicable unless you want to use feeble descriptions that are barely worth notice.

 On the subject of books, damage to a book actually affects me. In all seriousness a ripped page is, to me, mentally what a papercut may be to another. Sly and stinging, although small, you'll always remember the first one and you'll always be on guard to avoid another. Indeed it sounds rather daft but books are precious, they live on when others lives are at an end. It takes a lot for words to fade, once read they can never be unread, words forgotten, sentences dismissed, whole pages distanced from the mind. But the knowledge that they have been read, that the stories these pages have so willingly given, are in the readers mind, remembered or otherwise, is just a wonderful revelation.


It's nice to read with somebody, unless they are annoying and talk non-stop rather than the idle chit-chat given during the mutual pause of reading when tired eyes need resting. I've discovered reading by lamplight brings a nicer atmosphere than full room lighting. A certain calm descends in the respective silence, which is rather comforting.

Anyway best be off, it's still early but I doubt even I could prattle on about libraries, books and their appeal for much longer! Though as a side note I'm thinking of watching the 1997 adaptation of 'Lolita' I saw a trailer for the film and it does look rather good. So may try it.

Au Revoir.