My Opera~~~ Book Mania ~~~
Sunday, May 31, 2009 10:54:38 AM
There are days life gets me down so badly, i feel like all i want to do is curl up and cry....but seriously that never got anyone anywhere did it? Lately i've been splurging alot of my money on books.....i realised something about myself. and that is, no matter how shit my life is at any given time, no matter how alone i feel, if i just pick up a good book and read, ...at the moment i'm reading Minette Walter's "The Dark Room" - its a great read, and i spend the bulk of my time reading on the train to and from work....thats roughly 2hrs of reading a day. I find that there's someting very very comforting about the fact that when times get tough for me, i can just pick up a good book, and immerse myself into it, become one of the characters, forget all my worries and get lost in a completely different world. I love fiction so much, it helps me to forget......and boy do i have alot of things in my life building up that i just want to forget....
To me books have always been a life saver....when i was in high school, and all my friends had a BF except me, during school holidays when i knew they were all going out together but not inviting me coz i'd not have a guy to be with and feel left out,....it was the "Tomorrow when the War Began" series by John Marsden that saved me, provided an escape for me, and got me through those times when i thought it just really sucked to be me. Growing up and starting to mature out, being a full time student, coping with the stresses of the study load, once again it was books that kept me sane. When i broke up with my boyfriend, Richard who i was with for two years and 9months....it was the Harry Potter books and the Lord of the Rings books that had saved me.....somehow being able to use my imagination to immerse myself into a world of magic and witchcraft and good and evil had helped me mend my broken heart, had made me see that there was more to life than being in a relationship to help pass some of the more boring days. And then when my most recent ex, Andrew, broke up with me via email just one day before our 12month anniversary...i was so close to breaking down. I had gotten drunk over two bottles of wine and decided bunching the brick walls and hurting my fists would somehow nullify the pain in my heart. Ofcourse it dind't. I just ended up with busted up hands for a couple of weeks. And again it was books that saved me. Ironically the book i had just started to read was "The Best Revenge" - A New Alan Gregory Psycological Thriller - by Stephen White. Whenm i finished that i started straight onto Graham Hurley's - "The Take" and then i was onto The Dark Room as previously mentioned. today is exactly one month since the day he left me, how do i feel? Kinda OK. But i would be worse if not for my myriad collection of books. Which you can check out here:
Book List
Everyone has their own ways of dealing with the crap in their lives,,,,for me its escaping into what ever relm is depicted in the current book im reading, so far, its worked for me. So all you people out there who enjoy a good book from time to time, when you are hurting and simply have no answers and just feel so numb, to the point where you feel like its not worth letting anyone so close again....just pick up a book...and read...you never know, most of my dramas i've ended up finding a solution or a better way to tackle the issue from reading a book. The Tomorrow series for example helped ALOT. But if reading doens't work for you....then try something that does.
Until Next Time, Peace Out....
Be Good & if you can't then at least be good at it....
Pre10da
To me books have always been a life saver....when i was in high school, and all my friends had a BF except me, during school holidays when i knew they were all going out together but not inviting me coz i'd not have a guy to be with and feel left out,....it was the "Tomorrow when the War Began" series by John Marsden that saved me, provided an escape for me, and got me through those times when i thought it just really sucked to be me. Growing up and starting to mature out, being a full time student, coping with the stresses of the study load, once again it was books that kept me sane. When i broke up with my boyfriend, Richard who i was with for two years and 9months....it was the Harry Potter books and the Lord of the Rings books that had saved me.....somehow being able to use my imagination to immerse myself into a world of magic and witchcraft and good and evil had helped me mend my broken heart, had made me see that there was more to life than being in a relationship to help pass some of the more boring days. And then when my most recent ex, Andrew, broke up with me via email just one day before our 12month anniversary...i was so close to breaking down. I had gotten drunk over two bottles of wine and decided bunching the brick walls and hurting my fists would somehow nullify the pain in my heart. Ofcourse it dind't. I just ended up with busted up hands for a couple of weeks. And again it was books that saved me. Ironically the book i had just started to read was "The Best Revenge" - A New Alan Gregory Psycological Thriller - by Stephen White. Whenm i finished that i started straight onto Graham Hurley's - "The Take" and then i was onto The Dark Room as previously mentioned. today is exactly one month since the day he left me, how do i feel? Kinda OK. But i would be worse if not for my myriad collection of books. Which you can check out here:
Book List
Everyone has their own ways of dealing with the crap in their lives,,,,for me its escaping into what ever relm is depicted in the current book im reading, so far, its worked for me. So all you people out there who enjoy a good book from time to time, when you are hurting and simply have no answers and just feel so numb, to the point where you feel like its not worth letting anyone so close again....just pick up a book...and read...you never know, most of my dramas i've ended up finding a solution or a better way to tackle the issue from reading a book. The Tomorrow series for example helped ALOT. But if reading doens't work for you....then try something that does.
Until Next Time, Peace Out....
Be Good & if you can't then at least be good at it....
Pre10da
