Sitting in my favourite nook with the warmer by my feet, since the fireplace is pretty crowded at the moment and I don’t feel social.
Today, three more books came on the mail! And pretty earlier than Amazon’s prediction. I’m satisfied. Now I finally have the entire Space Odyssey saga and we’ll be making sweet sweet love. I’m getting my nose into them just so I can feel the scent. Hmmm!
I ordered the entire Space Odyssey saga because that story is been fascinating me with no end. One of them – the third book – arrived last Friday and I’m already done with it.
I can’t get over the sense of awe this story imprints on me and that’s a good thing – if anything, it means my awe skills are working properly.
I laid my hands on Contact, by Carl Sagan.
I’m almost finished.
I’m going to tell you about my first world problems right now.
I haven’t had money for new books these past two months, but I had some to-reads on my shelfs. But I eventually read those as well and now I’m on a re-reading rampage. I know reading old stories can be fun, but it’s a little annoying to me right now, as I was looking forward for something new. But I guess no money no vices. I’m back to Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World, which I am not reading orderly – I just open it and whatever page I get, I read.
This makes me think that maybe it’s a good time to get into book swapping. I have some books that, although I have bought and read, I didn’t have that connection that makes me want to keep the book with me forever. These books do not have anything in them for me anymore and I think maybe they can give something to other people. And I could get some new books as a replacement. Sounds like a good idea!
I had planned a trip to Spain this last weekend, to get some sunshine and some sea and some photos, but my plans didn’t go through. I am now listening to all the stories from all the people who did go and trying to figure just how nice it must have been.
I guess this is the perfect context to get me in the proper mood for my newest book:
Since I didn’t go to Spain, I had some time to spare here in Portugal and I eventually found this book for sale. I heard a lot about it (warning, portuguese only) and, considering the pages I’ve already read, I feel it is only adequate for the second-hand aventures I’m having now.
And I have to day I’m fairly dissapointed.
Let me start by saying the book was divided in three parts, or acts. First one was about Ezio getting to know the new environment, his new allies and enemies. The usual, getting to know the deal. Ezio had to find these keys in order to enter a library and this part was pretty much just that: looking and finding the keys. There was almost nothing to stop him on such duty and it was really repetitive. Considering this part was the biggest of the three, I was left expecting that maybe the other two would make it up. But they had to be really good because a whole lot of good space was wasted describing the same things happening over and over.
Also, Ezio had glimpses of the past, about Altaïr’s life. If I hadn’t read the previous book, The Secret Cruzade, maybe these would surprise me more. But there was nothing new on them, meaning I wasn’t surprised, meaning I learnt nothing from the biggest part of the book.
But it had some funny dialogs.
Of the other two parts, the second one was the one which caught me the most, although pretty short as well. Battles unfold, people die and there’s this huge chasing scene which is some kind of… Action climax.
But the Old ones (guess they’re called that?) are shown once again and since I’m fairly curious about them, I kinda got stuck to the story. They didn’t stick around for long, but at least I got another glimpse of Altaïr’s life, this time, something I hadn’t heard about before! Neat!
The last part is pretty much of a closure, although, at the same time, leaving a door open for me to think about how this saga will further develop. It won’t be about Ezio, considering he kind of retired and wanted to live the peaceful, filled with love life he so longed for (and deserver, imo). Some new character show up and some random battle which I totally didn’t understand happens and then I got to know there’s something else to this and it’s going way East now. Maybe it will be fun. And then the book just suddenly ends.
Guess despite the good second part, I’m still unsatisfied. I mean, this was Ezio’s last adventure and I was kind of expecting something bigger than this. Brotherhood is still my favorite Assassin’s Creed book.
Is it called a book fair in english too? I don’t know, really, you tell me.
Anyways, so yesterday was a day for the funs, I mean, after work. I didn’t have classes – actually, they are over! I didn’t even notice that… – and me and my peeps went on to a sushi restaurant because most people haven’t tasted it and most sushi restaurants aren’t actually that good and because I haven’t had good sushi in ages and I’ve been to that specific restaurant only once and I had loved it.
While the last time I’ve been there was probably around two years ago, food was still wonderful, so I can still say it is the best sushi restaurant I’ve been too. People complaining about sushi have a different opinion on it now and that’s, well, good, as far as I’m concerned. I like to see other people being adventurous.
After the sushi eating we were supposed to head to the book fair. But we had to pick up a last friend who didn’t join us for dinner and yet wanted to join us on the fair was well. I have to admit I’ve got lost in the city because traffic sucks and traffic signs suck harder and there were no parking spots. And we didn’t find the missing friend, she kinda found the way herself while I got lost.
But we managed to get together again! And drove to the book fair (getting, while not exactly lost, a huge way around which we didn’t exactly expect). And then there were lots of books and they had 50% discounts and I lost my mind and bought 3 of them:
I don’t know how this happened ;_; I’ve already read The Demon-Haunted World, but I loved it so much I kinda needed one just for me. I did not read yet The Pale Blue Dot, but I’m insterested! And there’s this book by Neil deGraisse Tyson which I’m totally looking forward too because I’ve never read any of his books and I’m extremely curious now. But I need to finish my Assasssin’s Creed soon (which will happen soon enough).
And then I got late home, but for some reason today is holiday and I don’t have to go to work, while still having to work a little bit (but that’s ok) and I should have gotten a lot more sleeps since yesterday’s dinner and all the action it ensured were pretty tiresome, but for reason I couldn’t get all my sleeps. I figure I’ll just sleep later on today, after trying to draw something just because I haven’t done so in weeks.
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