Having my very own Library, it’s one of the desires I share with Ria and Rezina. Though my expectations connected with it are not at all as precise as Ria’s. But Neil Gaiman’s Library… I would die for something like this *-*. The only missing thing is drinks machine serving coffee and hot chocolate. A lot of hot chocolate. *is daydreaming*
I guess all of us, bookworms, enjoy cosy places filled with scent of paper and dust. It might be cramped, but comfortable. Or at least that’s how it works for me.

I wonder how long it would take to read all of Gaiman’s books. A while, I guess. Now as I think of it there’s one more thing missing: a fridge ;).

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed on and digested.”

I like buying books. My parents think it’s a waste of money. Not because they think I shouldn’t read so much, that’s ok, but I shouldn’t read so fast. If the book has up to 700 pages, I’m usually finished within a day.

On the other hand, even I have books I abandoned or have a hard time finishing.

1. “Anubis” by Wolfgang Hohlbein
I have no idea why I bought this one. It seemed cool: archeologist, mystery, Tomb of Anubis somewhere in the USA, Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider. I’m somewhere in the middle (it has 645 pages) and nothing happened. No seriously, nothing. Narrative is just so boring. If half of this book has been cut off it still would be too long. I would have to be very desperate to finish this one.

2. “Skeleton Crew” by Stephen King
I’ve never been a huge fan of King. I enjoyed some of his books, but still I can’t see the thrill in most of them. Getting scared because of gore scenes? I don’t think so, I’ve read too much of Masterton. I can’t say that this book is very bad. It’s just nothig special or fresh. My favourite short-story is prbably “Survivor Type” and if you could find it somewhere, read it :). It has only 24 pages.

3. “Perfect Imperfection” by Jacek Dukaj
I can’t say that this one is bad. It’s just tough. The world is rather complex and I must really focus to understand it. I’m also not really into sci-fi and that’s the genre. I’d rather ead fantasy books which take me to a different world just like that.
Anyway, I will deffinitely finish this one, it’s well written and still quite compelling. The best thing is that sometimes I get all the words, but a sentence as one? Not really. And don’t even think that I would try translating it…

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”

This is going to be a good year book-wise. Mainly because of few great sequels.
The wishlist:

1. “The Eye of the Moon” by Anonymous
I already have this one on my bookshelf, but my dad is reading it and knowing him it will take another eternity until he’s finished.
It is a sequel to The Book with No Name, which is one of the best books I’ve ever read. I won’t say much more, because I want to write a proper review of this one. I guess I’ll re-read it for the purpose ;).

2. “I, Inquisitor. Towers to Heaven” by Jacek Piekara
Finally, another book with Mordimer Madderdin as main character. I was hoping Piekara will finish Flame and Cross and then move on with Black Death (which was supposed to be released in 2007 x_x”), but it’s better then nothing <3.

3. “Ambassador’s Mission” by Trudi Canavan
The first volume of The Traitor Spy Trilogy, which is a sequel to my beloved Black Magician Trilogy. It will be released in May and I just can’t wait~! I hope the author won’t kill my favourite character… again. Well, I don’t really want to say much more, if you like fantasy and you haven’t read BMT, go for it ;D.

4. “The Desert Spear” and “The Great Bazaar” by Peter V. Brett
The first one is a sequel to The Warded/Painted Man. This book is like the first part of Harry Potter – you must read most of it to actually start enjoying it. Polish edition is devided into two parts and I got pulled in in the end of part one. Totally pulled in. I hope the sequel is as good as the last pages.
The Great Bazaar is a collection of short stories which take place in the same world as other Brett’s books. I’m not waiting for it, but if I had a chance, I’d try it.

5. “The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown
I wonder why I didn’t read it quite yet. I like Brown’s style. The da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons were really good. I guess I like action and mystery, so that’s deffinitely something for me. I must get it soon <3. And I hope there will be no movie based on this one…

Of course, there are few other, older books which I’d love to read. Most of them by Polish authors and the only one you could have heard of is probably The Witcher. I can’t believe I haven’t read this one yet. And maybe I will finally finish The Lord of the Rings?  I can’t even remember how much I’ve already read ;D. The Hobbit was so much easier to get through…

Side note:

Playlist for today:
Korn – Freak on a Leash
Korn – Alone I Break
Korn – Make me Bad
Korn – Thoughtless
Korn – I’m Done
Korn – When Will This End
Korn – Here It Comes Again
Korn – Falling Away from Me
Korn – Somebody Someone
Korn – Make Believe

Quotes (starting with the title): Alice Hoffman, Francis Bacon, Henry Ward Beecher.

If you’re a bookwork like me, it’s a place for you. You can list all the books you’ve ever read, rate them, tag them and share them with others.
I’m new there and, what can I say, I’m not the most accessible person in the world, but if you are, this might be a good place  to make new friends, who have a similar taste as you.
For me, it’s more like a treasury of books I’d love to read.

I treat my profile as a little collective. I wanted to add something similar as a wordpress page, but it would be a pain to keep it  updated. I accidently found this widget and decided to take advantage of the situation ;).

So now I manage the whole thing in just a few clicks.
I organize my collection by Author’s name, but I could also do this by status, title or rating. I can switch book’s status between options like “not started”, “finished”, “reading” etc. I can add a specific date when I finished reading a book and thanks to this aNobii counts the number of books I read and number of pages: at this exact moment, I have 17 read books (3 re-reads included) which is a total of 7890 pages ;). This year, I mean and I’m not done with adding my books! Some of them simply aren’t there yet (yeah for polish books…).
A re-read. I can add a “re-read” date and it certainly works for me since this year I read the whole “Black Magician Trilogy” by Trudi Canavan twice. Firstly, I read it in Polish and then re-read it in English. And what’s the point in adding the same book twice even if the language is different?
When I’m done with status I can add tags. Most of my collection is tagged under “! The Loved Ones” simply because I hardly remember the bad books x_x, except for the few ones I have on my bookshelf… and those are yet to come ;).
There’s also a whishlist panel, so I can keep track of books I plan to read.

To each book, no matter what the status is, I can add a comment, but I guess I should call it a review. Might be useful, but personally, I’d rather write such things here ;), so there would be the slightest chance that Vihainen wouldn’t die too soon ;D .

If I get tired of a book I can put it under “tradable” category. After specifying a few details like book’s condition or price it is ready to be sold.
If I lend a book and the person who borrowd it is a member too and he/she doesn’t feel like returning it, I can send a reminder ;) [beware Catastro~! <3].

Last but not least, I can share my books with you guys, right here, without spending the whole eternity on coding pages or getting lost somewhere in the middle of adding books. I don’t have to host book covers or any information, this small plugin is all I need.

There probably are features which I didn’t mention here. Either because I haven’t noticed them quite yet or I don’t really think they are very important.
If you want to find out if I missed something, simply sign up! Especially, if you read more than two books a year ;).

[Side note:] It’s kind of the first review-like entry on the blog. I know, I suck at this kind of stuff, but I will do my best to improve, so don’t be too harsh on me and I wait for some feedback <3.
Like, from all 3 of you who may read it: Ria, Ari and Catastro XD.

The second term (or fourth, depending on how you count them…) started and it’s hard. There’s this thing called Econometrics. Mathematics, statistics, economics and probability in one. *dies* My brain simply turns into water every Tuesday.
Fortunately, I’m at school three times a week and once a month Mondays are free~!
Unfortunately, on every “free” day I’m supposed to be at work. Including weekends, sometimes. Well, my boss thinks that I should spent every afternoon working.
I wonder for how long I’ll be working here… Since I got my promotion I’m being lectured 3 times per day just because. But well, that’s a subject for separate entry.

When it comes to entries, I have some things written and saved at home (since I no longer trust in WordPress’ drafts), but I just don’t have time to sit and finish anything or make it sound decent.
Ha ha, I bet everyone would love my MUSE review (which got deleted dammmmmmmmmmit!) if the actual review part consisted of “I love it you must listen to it it’s awesome omg I love muse <3333″, right? XD So yeah, I deffinitely shall rephrase few things there ;D.

Besides I opened RT which has been even more dead than this place, but I’ve been working on something, actually. Vector of my OC Lazuri (done in Illustrator~ and yes, it is spelled with “R”).

Few work in progress pics:

I will write more about it when I get it finished <3.

There are two more things which kept me busy for the last few weeks: books and video games.

As for the books, there’s a Polish writer Jacek Piekara. He wrote quite a few short stories (five books so far, 400+ pages each) about Holy Inquisition, or rather one of the inquisitors: Mordimer Madderdin. The thing is that the world Piekara created is a bit different than ours. It is a world where Jesus Christ didn’t die on the cross, but He descended it and, with the help of apostles, cold-bloodedly murdered half of Jerusalem (in Polish this ‘cold-bloodedly’ part was said more pointedly, but I couldn’t find it in any of my dictionaries).
I didn’t really want to even start reading it since I’m an atheist and this whole religious crap just doesn’t work for me, but I gave it a chance. And now I love it. I don’t know if there’s a point in writing anything else about it here, because most of you won’t read it anyway.
It just kept me busy for quite some time. I really have been reading a lot lately. Piekara is just my latest obsession.

Now video games, or a game I should say. Heroes of Might and Magic III. It’s old, I know. I haven’t played it in quite a while and I’ve already forgot how playable it is. It’s all my sister’s fault! One day she asked me if I wouldn’t play with her as an ally. I agreed. Since that day I must finish at least one map per day x_x”. Still, it’s better than my Dungeon Siege obsession. I have been playing it for… four months? Day by day. Few hours per day.

Anyway, now you see that I had better things to do than blogging ;) (yeah, especially the last paragraph).
Ok, I shall end by now, it’s time to at least pretend I’m actually working ^-^.