Hello my fellow bookworms!
The weather today was amazing and made the school a little bit more bearable for me. What made the day even better, though, was the afternoon visit of the library we have in the city.
Not only the library has a BEAUTIFUL interior - you should see the wooden doors and the stairway (literally the stairway to heaven)! - but they have amazing books there as well. And I felt that today was a really good day to pay a little visit to the bookshelves overflowing with masterpieces.
This time I decided to pick up three books from the English section, for I'm still halfway through the Eye of the Storm by Patrick White, and I'm expecting Dragonfly in Amber to appear at my door in two weeks (and I'm super excited!), and I didn't want to be under any pressure. I wouldn't be able to enjoy the books if I had to read them quickly.
Let me introduce you to the gems I brought home today.
The first book is Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. The story about the NSA, the National Security Agency, that is many times more powerful than the CIA. When the NSA encounters a mysterious code that a code-breaking machine cannot break, they call Susan Fletcher, the head cryptographer and mathematician. What she uncovers could cripple the U.S. intelligence. Fletcher battles to save the organisation she believes in but she founds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the man that she loves.
I, as a lover of Brown's work, am incredibly happy about picking this book and I cannot wait to get to reading it!
Second, there's About a Boy by Nick Hornby. Will, at thirty-six, is single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also attending single parent's groups full of available mothers - and that's how he scores with women. That's also how Will meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old in the universe who listens to Mozart, takes care of his mother and has never owned a pair of trainers. Will Marcus help Will grow up and, at the other hand, will Will help Marcus to be a cool kid? I'm really excited to find out (for I haven't seen the film adaptation).
And last but not least, I picked up Chocolat by Joanne Harris, a book about a small French town that is turned upside down after the arrival of a chocolate confectioner, Vianne Rocher, and her daughter.
I was really happy after finding out about Chocolat being a book, because I simply loved the film adaptation with Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. I cannot wait to get to this book (I will probably start with this one, actually).
As you can see, my day was great and fruitful in the matter of books. What about you and your relationships with libraries? Do you prefer libraries to bookstores? Do you like borrowing library books or do you like having new books more? Share it with me!
