Books Galore

The Boy and I are big on books. We have a compulsion to get our hands on every book we can and we won't get rid of a single one - and that includes our many, many textbooks from school.

...and that's not it.

 Books have begun to spill over onto our Enetri shelves

(as an aside,

I really think that I could use a picture or something

to put on the wall over the shelves...

but then again, this side of the living room has already got enough going on.

What do you think?)

This is what I meant when I said that we were quickly running out of space in the apartment for all our books in a previous post. I would probably need to get rid of some furniture to fit those pieces in here, but it's a moot point when you consider their price tags.

As much as I love having all those books, I think that if we had our own place we could renovate and rebuild a room just around our books as the "centerpiece".

For example...

Ike Kligerman Barkley

 

This last image is from a book that The Boy's sister got me as a gift.

How perfect is this?

 

I can't wait to just curl up in bed and devour this book!

(By the way,

sorry for not having 

photo credits for

every picture...

these are pictures that

I have amassed just visiting

blogs and design websites

and I lost track of where

they all came from :( )

Dracula

I would ordinarily wait to finish reading a book before writing an opinion about it but it's been 3 months and I still have 30-odd pages to go and I'm starting to believe that I will never finish this book. If and when I do, I don't think my thoughts on Bram Stoker's Dracula will have changed at all.

I wanted to like this book, I really did. As a fan of practically every vampire movie, book and show I've ever come across I felt the need to read the book that started it all. The beginning was really good. You can feel the sense of foreboding as Harker makes his way to Dracula's castle. I especially loved the scene in the carriage in the forest with the blue flame and the wolves just before they get to the castle...but nothing ever seems to come of all the suspense.

The story slowly gets worse from there. The characters are flat and Dracula is simply, sadly uncompelling. I thought the book was about Dracula and his pain at being alone and immortal and simply misunderstood.

Perhaps I missed something and I feel like I did after reading the reviews on Amazon.ca. Most people seem to love it. I have considered the possibility that television has ruined my ability to appreciate the true classics (as my lit. teacher would most probably say)...but then again, I really enjoyed Paradise Lost by John Milton. I don't know if that has any bearing, but there it is.