Category Archives: Books

Bookwurm to the max

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Saturday I finally picked up my so long awaited books of the Throne of Glass series from Sarah J. Maas. I’ve been waiting for the past two weeks to continue reading after I finished the first three books and the prequel within a month. It’s a good thing for me that I had so many gift cards to spend, otherwise I would have never been able to continue reading. 

It turned out, I spent most of my Saturday night reading in Queen of Shadows, only to later start in Empire of Storms. [SPOILER] What I loved most about these books in the character development of Aelin over the series. I have not reached the end yet, but I know, and was actually surprised that she is living on borrowed time. It was something I didn’t expect to happen, that the main character of the books would end up dead, or more like, is going to need to forfeit her life to make her friends be able to live on.  

What I’m thinking of now however, is that the last part of Empire of Storms gave me the idea her cousin Aedion would be able to give that sacrifice as well, but I don’t know, it seems like a theory that got developped in my mind, and one I am curious to reveal once I get back to reaing the last two books of the series. [SPOILER OUT]

It was so very typical of me to jump in the books as if it was my own story, and it felt like an escape from reality feeling and hearing how the story goes on. It was like time travel. The first moment you’re at the beginning of a journey, but then all of a sudden you end up overseas, which took you only three weeks of sailing, and not knowing what to do. I wonder if others also experience reading like this, or that it is just me, who gets caught up in someone else’s world for a little while. 

Musicalish Cash

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People, especially with birthdays, like to give me cash. In my country, we barely use cash, and at my uni I’m not even able to pay with cash at all anymore. Everything goes with your bankcard, and I like it. There is a system that up to 25 euros you don’t need to enter your pincode, but once you go over that you have to again. In some ways it makes it easier to pay, sometimes too easy if you ask me, since people can even do it if they still your card, but only up to 25, till you have to enter that devious pincode again.

Today I got my hands on more cash it seems though, even tho I spent most of what I got from my birthday, partly on my graphic tablet, and partly on the pup crawl from the student assosiation. There are some minor things to take into account though, today I got paid in cash, because it’s lovely and a hassle to pay musicians, especially amateurs like myself by bank account. That would be such of a hassle. 

Our group or actually large quartet existed out of three first violinist, three second violinsts, a viola, which would be me, and a cello player. Each year we perform with this chorus in the church, but this time it was actually freezing, as in my hand were frozen solid at the end of the performance. It doesn’t really help that right now I’m watching the snow fall down in the dark sky, and am just sitting wrappeed in a blanket. 

I yet again have to think what I will have to with the little, but yet quite some of the cash I got today. I could buy about two books with it, as they are expensive here, but at the same time I could just save it up so I can use it later for when I want to travel again. So many options, yet I just received about five new books from the gift cards I had, so I think I’m good to go about reading for till the end of the year, hopefully.

Nothing without Something

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What if the world was the only person I would be alive for? Could there be any change, or would I just be the person fooling around with my life. Danger continues to haunt me. My time as my own is not completely realistic.

There is nobody in the way to success, but, imagine that there actually is. And that person is called you. You are the only person holding yourself back. Your fears your anxious words, or your depressed look on the world. But sometimes you just have to jump in and make it, since you are the only one who can shape your world.

For me it feels different. It is as if I know what I want to do, but at the same time I’m on my own. What nobody ever realises is that you need yourself to continue. I wonder though, what if I lost myself in the process of becoming of who I am. Am I still myself then? Or are my thoughts not my own anymore, but are they just send down to the world himself.

I’ve been thinking of this as I finished John Green’s last book, Turtles all the way down. He managed to put it in such way it is realistic, that it doesn’t matter of being you at all, but that you can be whoever you want to be. It might cause you to lose some of the people you have around, but you don’t ever truly lose yourself in the process. No matter what comes at you, you’ll fight to get through, and that is what keeps us going. Forever.