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"Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart." Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse

This is exactly what I was thinking about today. Obviously, the thought did not occur to me in such a sophisticated manner. (I should read more Virginia Woolf, btw.)

Hey There, Stranger...

...wanna read me a bedtime story?

Booklover

"I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them—with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself."  Eudora Welty

Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge my horizons, to gain wisdom, to experience beauty, to understand myself better, and for the pure wonderment of it all. I read and marvel over how writers use language in ways I never thought of. I read for company, and for escape. Because I am incurably interested in the lives of other people, both friends and strangers, I read to meet myriad folks and enter their lives- for me, a way of vanquishing the “otherness” we all experience. — Book Lust, Nancy Pearl

Can You Spot a Book Slut?

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...I got it all :o), except for the snazzy bookmark. I am the lazy dog-earing kind of gal. I have a ton of bookmarks but I never seem to locate one when I need it, so I just dog-ear the book. I always leave bookmarks in books, then forget about them... Or I put them some place, then forget where I put them. Of course I have a million other bits of papers, old tickets, etc. that I could use for marking the book but they are never around when I really need them. So I choose the easy solution: dog-earing. Shame on me.

Playing Catch-up (Not To Be Confused With Ketchup!)

Wow, can it be that it's the 25th already? I just realized that I haven't been very active around here (or around my photoblog for that matter) lately. How fast the last 3 weeks have gone by! Well, the minutes are slipping through my fingers (Do you want me to sing that famous Abba song? Nahh, you don't wanna have nightmares tonight, do ya?), days go by incredibly fast, summer is coming to an end pretty soon, school will start again in just a little more than a couple of weeks, and fall is around the corner (almost). I am pretty excited about fall, to me that's the real beginning of the year. Plus, I recon fall is my favorite season of all (Not! Actually, it should be winter, I guess, because of the snow...).

This year I am even more excited as usual, for I can hardly wait to see all its amazing shades, the superpretty lights, the leaves turning yellow, gold, scarlet, and all other shades of the rainbow (except for blue, probably). The reason why I am so excited is because this time I get to photograph all the pretty colors and lights, I get to capture each and every shade of the beautiful autumn Budapest. I remember last year thinking that it was the most beautiful fall I have ever seen. Can it get better? Hopefully it can and it will, and I get to live through and photograph the most beautiful and breathtaking fall. 

Anyway, these past 3 weeks have been kind of -sort of busy, I did a tiny bit of travelling, spent a few days here then a few days there. Also wandered around a lot on the streets of my hometown and its surrounding little villages and woods and took some photos of my findings. Plus I have been getting quite creative lately, I did some glass painting (will certainly do some more for I love it!) and some good old decoupage-ing and collage-making. I also spent some time designing and sewing brooches. It's high time I made a decision and concentrated on only one thing, otherwise I will lose focus, as always. I should really start concenrating and dedicating all my time to making brooches, because then I could set up and start that little Meska-shop I've been planning to open for such a long time. It's really really high time I started making some money out of my creativity and my two good hands, 'cause that's all I have. (You know the old saying: if you are good at something you should never do it for free. Well, we will see whether I am good at it. Or rather: whether I am good enough.) 

The point of this whole post and my never-ending rambling is  - since this blog sort of turned into a book blog where all I write about is my readings - that I have also been reading some books during the past month or so. I would not say that I have been reading a lot, certainly not as much as I had planned in the beginning of the summer, but more than during school-year. Being the same old me, of course I haven't been reading what I had decided I would during these two months...  Nevertheless, I will (or will try to) write a "kind-of-review" on each book in the next few days. So this is what I have read since Lolita. ( I think that's the last novel I wrote about.)

•  My Sister's Keeper by Judy Picoult
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Macskaköröm by Sohonyai Edit
• Szerelemlék by Sohonyai Edit
• Révfülöpi nyár by Demény Ottó
• Mocsok Csillag by Sohonyai Edit
• The Graduate by Charles Webb
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

and right now I  am reading

• Madame Bovary by Flaubert and 
• Chocolat by Joanne Harris.

Cand hardly wait to write about these some of these books!:)

“Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells… and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower…both strange and familiar.”~ Inkspell - Cornelia Funke

Eat the damn chocolate cake, get your hair wet, love someone, dance in those muddy puddles, tell someone off, draw a picture with crayons like you’re still 6 years old and then give it to someone who is very important to you. Take a nap, go on a vacation, do a cartwheel, make your own recipe, dance like no one sees you, paint each nail a different color, take a bubble bath, laugh at a corny joke. Get on that table and dance, pick strawberries, take a jog, plant a garden, make an ugly shirt and wear it all day. Learn a new language, write a song, date someone you wouldn’t usually go for, make a scrap book, go on a picnic, relax in the sun, make your own home video, kiss the un-kissed, hug the un-hugged, love the unloved, and live your life to the fullest. So at the end of the day, you’ll have no regrets, no sorrows, no disappointments.

“ It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it. I am not flooded with despair, almost hysteria, as if I were smothering. As if a great muscular owl were sitting on my chest, its talons clenching & constricting my heart.” Sylvia Plath

I love you, Sylvia. It's like you can read my mind.

“One of these days you’ll be
under the covers you’ll be
under the table and you’ll realize
that all of your days are numbered
all of them one to one hundred
one of them millions
one of them trillions
so what are you gonna do with them all?
 
You can’t trade them in for more
 
Live like you’re dying And never stop trying
It’ll all you can do
 
Use what’s been given to you”

Live Like You’re Dying, Lenka

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My Cup of Tea

"A hot bath – just you and Prince William? A dream which comes true at last! Relax with a cup of tea in the bosom of England’s royal family. Make it real: let’s TeaParty!"

Look at these hilarious tea bags! Now that's what I call CREATIVI-TEA!:) 

Such a shame they're not sold in Hungary. Yet, you can order it from Germany via internet. Here's their webshop.

:)

“I asked the zebra,
Are you black with white strips?
Or white with black strips?
And the zebra asked me,
Are you good with bad habits?
Or are you bad with good habits?
Are you noisy with quiet times?
Or are you quiet with noisy times?
Are you happy with sad days?
Or are you sad with happy days?
Are you neat with some sloppy ways?
Or are you sloppy with some neat ways?
And on and on and on and on
And on and on he went.
I’ll never ask a zebra
About stripes
Again.”

Shel Silverstein

“For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair. I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer day — three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” John Keats

“Coffee is a lot more than just a drink. It’s something happening, an event, a place to be somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, not in actual hours or minutes, but in a chance to be yourself, and have a second cup.” Gertrude Stein

Today's Movie

Jess: Marriages don't break up on account of infidelity. It's just a symptom that something else is wrong.

Harry Burns: Oh really? Well, that "symptom" is fucking my wife. 

Since it's romcom week, I could not resist watching When Harry Met Sally. This is yet another one that is set in beautiful fall & winter New York, accompanied by great music. So much more than just Meg Ryan's famous restaurant scene. I could watch this movie a thousand times and never get bored of it. Definitely a classic.

"Not all who wander are aimless, especially those who seek truth beyond tradition, beyond definition, beyond the image."   Mona Lisa Smile

Gives You Hell - All American Rejects

"And then the remorse, the poignant sweetness of sobbing atonement, grovelling love, the hopelessness of sensual reconciliation. In the velvet night, at Mirana Motel (Mirana!) I kissed the yellowish soles of her long-toed feet, I immolated myself... But it was all of no avail. Both doomed were we. And soon I was to enter a new cycle of persecution. " Nabokov

This is my favorite quote from Lolita. Pretty much sums up the whole of the novel.

They're in the Bookbusiness

"Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms. "

So, I'm watching You've Got Mail tonight, one of my favorite movies that are set in New York. This is yet another one that I have seen already a dozen times, but, no doubt, will do for another dozen. Well, I have to admit, I am a sucker for romantic comedies, I just love them, 'cause they always cheer me up. I'm pretty sure You've Got Mail is one of the best ones.

“If you are not spending all of your waking life in discontent, worry, anxiety, depression, despair, or consumed by other negative states; if you are able to enjoy simple things like listening to the sound of the rain or the wind; if you can see the beauty of clouds moving across the sky or be alone at times without feeling lonely or needing the mental stimulus of entertainment; if you find yourself treating a complete stranger with heartfelt kindness without wanting anything from him or her… it means that a space has opened up, no matter how briefly, in the otherwise incessant stream of thinking that is the human mind.” Eckhart Tolle

Our Good Old Bridget

I am watching Bridget Jones's Diary... for the six hundredth time, at least. And I still love it, no matter how many times I have seen it already, 'cause it's sooo British and soo hilarious. Bridget is so naive and stupid silly and funny. Plus, Hugh Grant is so hot...I  adore his supersexy British accent!

I Heart Sunflowers

In fact, they are my favorite flowers (beside poppies).

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