in love with books

Some people find God in each other. That sentence found its way into my heart and it has inspired this illustration you see here. It is the first thing that comes to my head when I think of this beautiful play. In The Rose Tattoo this line appears in a very significant place. A catholic priest fails to understand a grieving widow. One of the characters says this to him: ‘You love your people but you don’t understand them. They find God in each other. When they lose each other, they lose God and they’re lost. And it is hard to help them.’ These simple words speak volumes about love and about the grieving process. We do search for God in each other and perhaps we’re not wrong to do so. Doesn’t it make sense, searching for the best in each other? To truly love is a serious business. The loss of love is, probably, the most tragic thing that can happen to anyone.
I’m recommending this play tonight and I'm putting my heart into it . I will speak about why I love it so. I’m not trying to …

Roman o kojem danas pišem (napisala sam kreći ogled već na goodreads-u dvadeset dana) je zapravo prvi moj roman Renata Baretića. Kada sam ga vidjela na kiosku, odmah sam ga odlučila kupiti jer ako želimo da domaća knjiga živi, moramo je poduprijeti. Osim što vjerujem da trebamo kupovati domaće autore zbog tih nekih književnih i kulturnih razloga, ja ih kupujem i zato jer iskreno volim hrvatsku književnost. Zapravo često se čudim kako je moguće da ijedna zemlja ima toliko pisaca. Kada o tome razmišljam, sjetim se kako sam znala lutati knjižnicom, spremajući se za ispite iz hrvatske moderne književnosti, pitajući se kako ću ikada uspjeti pročitati toliko knjiga. Ono što me tada fasciniralo, a i sada me nastavlja fascinirati je ne samo broj već i kvaliteta objavljenih knjiga. U školama se podučava tek neznatan dio hrvatske moderne književnosti, a zapravo i nije lako uklopiti toliko broj pisaca u školski plan i program. No, vratimo se ovom romanu. Renato Baretić je javnosti najviše pozna…

Today I will talk about Late Bite, a novel by John Masui.  I have read this novel in two sittings. I  must say I took to Late Bite right from the start. In my first reading I got to the middle of the book and ever since I was anxious to finish it. I would have read it on one sitting if I could have had spared the time. Today I had the afternoon off, so I decided to use it to finish reading it. My reading experience was an absolutely positive one. It is certainly a very exciting and though provoking reading, one that kept getting better with every page, right up to the very satisfying and dramatic end. Late Bite is a very interesting and original take on the vampire genre, albeit this is not the first novel where I came across an attempt to scientifically explain the origin of vampire. George R.R. Martin in his Fevre Dream tried to do the same, by portraying the vampires as a separate species. This novel goes a step further and builds upon recent scientific studies about Homo Sapiens …

I'm finally ready to review an amazingly lyrical and beautiful piece of writing that is also known as The Picture of Dorian Gray. I  shall start by talking about The Preface to this novel because I think it deserves special attention.  Now, The Preface can be studied both on its own and with the novel in mind. I think that as a text it works well either way. Because of its brevity, I will influde a direct quote of it: 
The Preface The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as…