I don’t understand why people would throw away books?  

Okay I understand the fact that books tend to gather dust in many modern homes, since not many people read as much as they used to. But there are always antique stores where you can sell or donate old books.

Even so, in some cases I’m happy that people throw away old stuff. I was going to throw the garbage this morning and oh what a great day to house chores.

There it was: a 1971 cinematographic almanac (in Romanian). How can someone throw away something like that? And the book itself is in good condition, with just a few pages missing. I can’t wait to get home and study it more, but I managed to scan some pages that really caught my attention.

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And, what’s more interesting are the advertisements at the end of the almanac (which I will scan tomorrow).

I don’t watch much TV nowadays, since they took out Nickelodeon so I can’t watch Sponge Bob anymore (and they were airing new episodes too T_T).

There’s just nothing interesting to watch, except the occasional weekend episodes of Midsomer Murders. But even so, I won’t cry if I miss an episode cause I already bought all the series on DVD and I can watch them whenever I want. The local library is also closed till October so I can’t borrow any books (and I can’t afford buying new books).

But yesterday I made quite a find that I just couldn’t miss out on. I found, on sale, The Complete Sherlock Holmes book. I only read the Sign of the four (twice) and I was looking around for more books with Sherlock Holmes, but either I couldn’t find them, the books were to expensive or I had no money. But, this time the book was on sale, I had money and I bought it.

I started reading it last night, but because I was tired from cleaning my room (and throwing away old clothes) I barely made it to page 25. But I am sure that not even the Sims 3 will get me away from it this weekend, and that means Johnny and his father will have access to the computer. So it’s a win-win situation.

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Since last week was very stressful because of work, this week I decided it’s time to take it slow.

So what better way to relax than reading a book. The only hard part is choosing what book to read. Since all the public libraries are closed till October, my only options are my own books, and I don’t have that many books. 

I just picked randomly and I started reading The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll. It was a present from my brother and his wife for my birthday this year. I don’t think I ever read Alice in Wonderland in English.

But what caught my attention were the illustrations, which were rather freaky, well some of them.

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And I also remebered reading about the new ”twisted” version of  ”Alice in Wonderland” by Tim Burton. Well after seeing the illustrations and re-reading the story again, I think it will be a spot on remake.

Actually I can’t wait to hear Helena Bonham Carter scream her lungs out “OFF WITH HIS HEAD!”.

Even if it’s Thursday, it’s the last day o work for this week. Tomorrow we have a free day.

I just can’t wait for this day to pass. It means we’re gonna have another three day weekend, and that’s just great. As Johnny said we might be going to the circus to see a seal show, but I’m not sure we’re gonna on Saturday. On Saturday we might end up going to the country side again. Which reminds me that I completely forgot to post the pictures from last time we went at the country side.

Anyway, we don’t know for sure so we won’t make any plans, we’ll just wait and see how things go.

I just found a really awesome book, and I just finished the first volume of it. It’s called “Musashi” by Eiji Yoshikawa. I found it at the library, and the cover just won me over. It has such a beautiful drawing (and I love pencil drawings) on the front and back cover. Even if the book it’s not in the best shape a book can be it really caught my attention. Today is the last day I can keep it, but as I said, I already finished the first volume and I’m gonna take the second and third volume with me. Maybe I’ll look around to see if I can find more books like it, even if the library doesn’t have many books.

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It sucks because the main libraries here have really strict rules and, at some of them you can’t even sign up if you’re not a student or still in school (which sucks big time) and you aren’t even allowed to take the books home (cause some people forgot to bring them back). That’s why I prefer local libraries, even if they are small they don’t have such stupid rules, and with the same pass you can go take books from more then one library.

Anyway, I realised that I started reading much more now then I did in my school days. It’s much more pleasant now when there aren’t people on you back telling you what to read.