My second book

    I started reading books for grown-ups when I was little. They were definitely inappropriate for my age. So the second book I read was called Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough. It was around 600 pages and that is alto for a 14 year old. I base this on my boyfriend who is 27 and still struggles to read a 100 pages book about Jedis that is mostly filled with pictures! Anyway, I took on that heavy but enjoyable task to read that big book.

  It was about a family from New Zealand and it starts when the main character Meggie Cleary is only four and it finishes with her death when she is around 60. It is hers and her family's life time story. The book was so long and so detailed that by the end I didn't want to let go. You could imagine spending months ( I say months because at that age a 600 pages were hard to read and you took your time) reading about the lifes of people that the end of the book will be emotional. I cried, closed the book and hugged it; I think I even said thank you. That was the first time in my life when I was so invested in a book; I was heart broken when I character died, I was happy when they were happy; I fell in love with Ralph when Meggie, I wished for better days for the Cleary family.

My first book

  What got me into reading with passion and sometimes even obsession was the curiosity. I wanted to know about the different aspects of life. Some religions believe that you live more than once; the belief in reincarnation. Even if it is true and we live more than once on this earth we are definitely not lucky to remember our previous lifes. Sometimes I have those dreams of wanting to be so many different things, to travel with just my back pack or to cover my whole body with tattoos. The possibilities are endless but the problem is- you have only one life. And let's be honest with each other we are not as free as we think we are to do what we really want to do. So this is when I found out about this other places or more like this other device made out of paper that take you anywhere in the world, sometimes out of it. You can be so many people at once, you can even be an animal. Anything- anywhere.

  My curiosity and thirst for something better, something different and interesting, got me into books. I don't particularly like calling them books, they are like little treasures. Each one of my books counts as a treasure; six years ago I started buying my own books and by now I  can definitely say that I am rich.

  The first time I read a 'grown-up' book was 7 years ago. It was called ' Come easy- go easy' by James Hadley Chase. I found it at my grand parents house, it was left on the couch half open and I started reading from that page onwards; it only took me one night to read it and on the next morning I read it from the beginning to the part I first started. Since than I am sure I have read this book more than 10 times. For a 14 year old girl I wasn't that familiar to what is happening around me, I was just a normal little girl. That book first taught me about sex, relationships, friendships, the power of money, betrayal. For me those were distant only 'grown ups' businesses. How foolish I was. Thanks to books I opened my eyes, I saw the world and the people; thanks to books I am who I am today. 

  I can tell you one thing- your friends might leave, your pet will pass away, sometimes family leaves as well; but books- they are always there and always will be. I have always found my hiding place in them and even till now they haven't disappointed me and I doubt they ever will.