Well I love and want that clock, but the thing I really love is books! I just typed 'books' into google and that's one that came up..wow, it's amazing. Anyway...as I've said already in a previous blog, I really don't know how many books I've read in my lifetime. Let's just say it's plenty! I've also read the same books over and over again, because I always have to have a book to read, and sometimes I'm poor and can't afford to buy a new one. However, my friend Cait (blog) has just linked me to an amazing website which I'm sure is going to provide me with endless reading material from now on!
The reason I love books so much is because when I read one, it's pretty much the only time ever that I can sit still and concentrate for more than five seconds! I go into my own world, or the world in the book, and just get lost. It's the most amazing feeling ever, along with the mixed feeling of finishing a book...both glad and sad at the same time that it's over. I love characters, and I often find myself in a fantasy love affair with a fictional character...sad I know, but oh well!
My favourite author is Nicholas Sparks. I know a lot of people say he writes the same book over and over, and although I agree that yes, his books are about a lot of the same themes, and of course mostly all set in the same place, I just love his characters, and the love they all have for each other. Cheesy, yes, but I think I've displayed enough of my cheesiness over the last twelve days...or indeed the last 20 years... for that not to be a surprise anymore!
Another author I adore is Trudi Canavan, who wrote The Black Magician Trilogy. Other than obviously Harry Potter, they are the first fantasy novels I ever read. My mum bought them for me when I was about 14ish I think, as an unusual present, and I fell in love with them. After reading that website I've just realised that there's a second trilogy, ooohhhhh, so I think I'm definitely going to have to read those, although I hope they're not going to ruin my love for the originals!
Anyway, that's enough procrastination! Byeeee!
