Archive for November 8th, 2008

My First Love

My first true love is books, I love books, I love libraries, I love studies, everything that surrounds literature. I am one of those people, all you know who we are, that hoards books galore. I still have every book I ever bought, and all are still in pristeen condition. I’m also one of those people, who is really anal about keeping the book in “like new” condition. I make sure my hard backs paper covers aren’t curling or ripped or creased the wrong way, and I’m equally as anal about my paper backs, where I try not to crease it. It is harder to control with paper backs, some just are worn unfortunately. But reading books, just being around books, and smelling books is really my first true love. Since I started knitting, my book purchases has severly decreased, although my passion still exists.

I have thought about purchasing audio books, but for some reason that just won’t do it for me. I’m on old-fashioned book lover, I have to have the actual book, the look, feel and smell of it. This form of reading is really becoming an “old technology”, with today’s Internet and online columns, things have changed tremendously for written print. I aspire to be a writer, is it obvious? In fact, I’m probably going to try next year to slowly start making a career change, we’ll see how it goes.

Lately as I’ve been knitting and working on all my projects, I’ve been hearing books call to me. I think about some of my favorite authors, and feel like I’ve ignored my friends. The genre’s I love are Mystery, Drama, Documentary, and anything else that catches my eye. One of my all time favorite authors, and true master at her craft, is the great Anne Rice. I’m such a huge Anne fan, I love her writing, the way she tells her stories, the way she takes you back to a time before any of us were ever thought of, is just mesmerizing. Although she has completely vowed not to write her Vampire stories anymore, she still is my favorite. I long for another story of Marius or Lestat, which brings me to point of why I’m posting. I’ve seen some snippets of a new movie that caught my eye, and it is Twilight.

This movie is right up my alley, I can’t wait to see this. I need to start reading the books, I might just miss the movie so I don’t tarnish the books true meaning. Film adaptations of books can go good or bad, or in between. When I read my books, I usually create my own image of the characters including their voices, and when I see a film adaptation of a book, I’m either satisfied because my image is in line with what was portrayed in the movie, or I’m kind of annoyed because the image is ruined. I like to read the book before the movie, because if I read after, my images are only that of the actors. Reading is truly an imaginatory experience, it really allows your mind to open up into another world. One of my other famous authors, is Stephen King, this man is a master at storytelling and a master at character building. His pieces have such a broad range, it’s unbelieveable. One of my other favorites is Margaret George, she truly outdid herself with “The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel”, this was book I couldn’t put down. I was enthralled the entire way through the 1000 pages, in fact I read it in like I think 2 or 3 days, which was crazy, but I loved it.

Another author is Dan Brown, he’s well known for having written the controversial “Da Vinci Code”. I was never a fan of the book the Da Vinci Code, I read the book before the movie came out, and I forced myself to finish it. It just wasn’t a page turner for me, the movie was doable, and better than the book in my opinion, not in quality of the story but in just keeping your attention. My fave of Dan Brown is “Angels and Demons”, a great book, and how I came to find Dan, and really enjoyed the book. I think there is an film adaptation of this book too, but not too sure when it’s set to come out.

I usually stay loyal to the authors I have on my shelf, I try to add variety, but it’s hard for me, when I go to the book store, there is such a huge assortment to choose from, I get overwhelmed and usually stick to my list of authors.

My first love of mine, is still my first love, and I’ll have to pay a few visits to the book store to stock up on the Twilight series, and learn all that I can about this fantastic story.

Are you a reader? Do you have favorites?

Until next time,
Rocky

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I hope I didn’t bore you with this post