So I started the Reading challenge. I took Murakami’s book by accident. Well, just. Randomly :) I really liked his style, I’ve seen some movies based on his books. And I pretty much knew what to expect. It was stunning. Unity of time. Everything happens in one night, at different point of views, at different places, for dirrerent people.
She slept so deeply, he said. With her hair spilled down on the pillow. with an orchestra in the basement. Jazz. Night that is. Coffe shop and book, the outsider with book in a hand, the runner with fake name, love hotel. Aphpaville :). And they promised to come back, to write to each other.
I still think they had no sprakle :) If you know what i mean. 3 months ago

And the Ass Saw an Angel. And then me read the book. And that Nick Cave was great.
Psychedelic poetism, grotesque, fantasies and reality. Heard Nick Cave speaking in my head while reading this. Dreamed about Nick Cave one night, me being an ass and him- an angel. If you know what I mean.
You don’t.
It’s all in my head. Lived every moment, antisocial, unexpected. Weird! in the best way there is . One of my favourite books so far. And the Ass saw An Angel. 3 months ago

Had it for a pretty long time, started it one night and almost read it all at once. A short book, but interesting. The inside world of the strange man. When I started reading this book, I was surprised, because I realised I’ve read it before, but I couldn’t understand when, couldn’t actually remember that. I remember reading something from Albert Camus, but I truly thought it was not this one. Oh well, I don’t regret reading it again, it was not the waste of time. Camus has his catchy style. 6 months ago

Reading challenge is a website [in lithuanian] where you have to make a list of books you’re planning to read in 2013 and then make entries, oppinions, every month there are small prizes and at the end of the year- big ones :) like books, gift cards to buy more books, free coffee etc. I’m very glad to accept this.

For a while I’m gonna stick to this list [with some reading in between, when I will have spare time]:

Jack Kerouac - Dharma bums
Haruki Murakami - Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Edward Morgan Forster - A passage to India
Jose Saramago - The year of the death of Ricardo Reis
Michail Bulgakov - The heart of a Dog
Haruki Murakami - After Dark
Erich Fromm - The heart of Man
Albert Camus - The Plague
Erich Maria Remarque - Shadows In paradise
Miroslav Stingl - Who worship the stars
Stephane Audeguy - The theory of clouds
Alice Sebold - The Lovely bones

2 alternative books [just in case…] :

Jack London - Martin Eden
Erich Maria Remarque - Arch of Triumph

Happily waiting for the New year :) 6 months ago

This book came into my arms by accident, my cousin [and also one of the greatest readers that i know] left it at Grandma’s house, and I took it, told her that I’m gonna borrow it and after a while I started reading.
At first it seemed boring, the everydays of estate people in the beginning of the century. I thought this will be a tough one, if the whole book won’t get any better. But then the plot started to catch my attention, by little hints it started to tell the things, that left unspoken directly, and then three different stories from the three different point of views. I especially liked the part about Robbie, the guy from the estate, who was taken to fight in a war, though, i’m not a very big fan of war-plotted books, this one got my attention. And then author throws you back at the estate and the life behind the walls of it. All three parts united in the end. And I can say at the last chapters of this book I was very excited and interested.

I finnished the book when I woke up very early in the morning and couldn’t sleep, I was hoping, that I will sleep afterwards :D [silly me] but the end of the book was so interesting and catchy, that I couldnt sleep anymore. So I started another book and read half of it :D That’s what I call a good reading night xD 6 months ago

My mom picked it out of my bookshelf, just, randomly. And I have to say I’m not disappointed in America’s literature classics. I was impressed how quickly a story reaches you, and how the book just locks you inside of it, until you’re finnished reading it. A very sweet nice, kinda childish and naive [not in a bad way] story, full of experiencing the world, looking at things with innocence, with fresh look. It’s a story. About tolerance. About true values. About parenting and being true, seeing more and doing something about it :)))) 7 months ago

When my mind woke up from the nirvana of having so many books now, and all of them I collected during about a year and a half…. month by month… :) I decided to count, just for the curiosity. And the Number is …........................drum roll ................................................................................................................................................................. ................................................................................................................................................................. 175
That all are mine. 8 months ago

Bought that about half a year ago, from one of my first salaries in my previous job, it was kinda pricy, but i decided i can afford that xD in the beginning it seemed like total brainstorm, mind flood, full of dates, names, cities and same and the same events, but later it all concentrated to one big bubble only in separate visions, events started to mean emotions, names became facts and in the end everything went to its places.
Some of my friends accused this book of being plotless nonscence, but then, did I created all the meaning in my head or is it really there. or maybe i just have to suggest them to read it when they are not sixteen anymore.
Thank You, Kerouac, it was a pleasure. 10 months ago

okay, i’m officially a maniac, i cannot read in a paces like that, but my shelves are getting fuller and fuller :] thats makes me happy at some point, can’t wait to read them all 11 months ago

It’s my brothers, hoped to read something new. Well, actually I didn’t except one thing- cats sleep in deep real sleep just about 30percent of their sleeping time (...!) Other time they just lay there in ‘stand by’ mode. As a sleep lover I feel sorry for them. 14 months ago

Bought It about half a year ago [like many others] but was busy reading borrowed books, so in between borrowed ones decided to take some of my own. Loved it. Nice story of war, hiding, love and priorities in life. And of course what I love about Remarque- the descriptions of nature, psychedelic atmosphere that created visions in my head. 14 months ago

Just got the gift certificate from my friend on my bday. Two more books in my hands xD yay…!! 15 months ago

It was borrowed, but I’m sure after a while I am going to want to read it [or have it either ways] again. The thing is, it’s so untraditional that it’s hard to say something about it, everything is different, point of views, characters. Even I, who love classical literature, found this as a good stuff to read. One negativity- the depressing point, the moment when you realise most thing we do in life is worthless, the boundaries, the oppinions of others, addictions… That’s someone’s everydays. But in any other ways thsi was fascinating. You never knew what is waiting for Victor around the corner: a hooker, a dude with rocks, or his sick mother. 15 months ago

I had to read it for the studies, and I did it in one day… It was very interesting, more than I expected. I took it from library, but I wouldn’t mind having it in my collection. 16 months ago

Franziska Stalmann “Red Window”. The detective- and in some way erotic novel. I didn’t like the point of view in this book, the dirt of the world: prostitute little girl, a pedophiles, father, who killed his daughter, widow detective who mourns her husband in the arms of four different lovers… that’s just disturbing. I don’t know what was the purpose of this book, but it is only worth something if the writer wanted to disguse my moral, then she did her job. The only thing that was interesting- the misterious creation of lots of characters, every was the opposite to another. But it’ not the reason for me to have the book. It’s a good thing it was borrowed.

Another- Is what I want to have, is from my Dad’s collection. “Eyes Wide Shut” by Arthur Schnitzler I red it very fastly and I think I would like to do that again after a while, it got me thinking, digging deep, it is going to must-have list :] 16 months ago

It was the three-parted book. The story of one big family, with mystic, ghosts in the first part, the second about the girl Sharlota, whose engangement went wrong, and the third about same Sharlota, Her exfiancee and his new wife. About beliefs, the bad wishes and evil mind, the power of evil and miracle of forgiveness. The first part was boring and hardly-read and when I thought it is boring and was determined to read the whole book just because. I didn’t wanted to give up. And in the end it was extremely interesting. Who would’ve know.
That’s the borrowed book, from the parents of my stepfather, I think I would want to read it again, after several years maybe, but it’s an old book, if someday I’ll find it in the old books store, Į think I will take it, but if not, then I guess this was the only time I read it.
This was the 50/50 book, so I won’t make lots effort to find it, but if I will, it’s my destiny to have it. 16 months ago

I totally loved it. The dialogues, the manner of speaking, the dinamic character of Dorian, the allways-right sceptic Henry. Wow. And all the talks are so meaningful, so quotes-a-like. I wrote some of them to myself, very inspiring thoughts about art, about the coinsuquenses of your thoughts. The CURSE, AGONY and beauty. Sins and the sinners. Impressive.

I know this is a movie poster but that’s how the cover of my book looks like. 18 months ago

I am a book-o-holic. I bought books. LOTS. There’s no space in my shelves anymore, where I could fit them all. So now I have a tower of books. Gosh, I can’t wait until I read them all. 18 months ago

I’m reading the third book from my dad’s collection by “Lietuvos rytas”. I’m not going to own these books, but I feel interested in reading them all and maybe in time having some of them. 21 months ago

I red the book of my friend’s. The information was helpful, but the writing style sucked. I bought the different one with better lessons of taking pics. 21 months ago

read one book a month 23 months ago

I got it for my birthday couple months ago, and just finnished it, loved it, worth reading. Usually I’m not a fan of novels, but this one just got my attention. I wanted to read it and to have it a long time ago. I also just saw a movie, both the book and the movie was very good and interesting. 2 years ago

Every GOOD book I’ve red.
I’ ve red some crappy books that I don’t even want to see again in my life, especially I don’t want to see it in my shelf or pay money for it :] especially this ferrari thing. I’ve red it just to prove myself it’s worthless. and it totally is. 2 years ago