No. 4.: Books

Pour a cup of tea, coffee, or cocoa, open the cookie jar, pick out some of your favourite cookies. Decide where to sit. It's the hardest part. Next to the radiator would be great but after a while it's so hot, you'll have to move. It's so beautiful outside, all the snow and whiteness, you can't sit near the window, it would distract you. On the bed you would fall asleep, bed is for sleeping, anyway. The couch will be great this time. You don't need music, it's 'bookytime'. Grab your paperback, take a seat, relax, enjoy, imagine. That's all.

Reading is the most ambivalent thing ever. We usually answer questions like 'Do you like reading?' with a sentence 'I don't have enough time...' Actually it's not even an answer for the question. 'Yes', or 'No' would be. So which one? I do. I love reading. Also I love movies as some of you may know. But books are a septillion (10^24) times better than movies. Why? Well...

A movie is made like this: The director reads a book, he thinks about it, comes up with a concept how to make the movie adaptation of the book. He has the idea, goes to the publisher's office, saying 'Hey, I've got an idea about this one! How'bout...' and then the producer says 'Aah... I don't like this character.. could we... and here I don't like that she dies... maybe... yeah... some lollypop would be better...' And then they make the movie with the cast.
You go to the cinema, and everything from the book gets to you harvested, processed, baked, cut, even chewed, served on a silver plate of millions of dollars budget. You don't have to think at all... It's all there. It's just lollypop.

A book on the other hand is like this: You sit down and read. You pop in your mind, let your imagination fly on the words, read from your own point of view. Sure, you have to harvest and bake alone, but after chewing it's much sweeter then you expected.

And there are lots of talented authors, lots of great books. If someone says 'I haven't seen a book which caught my attention yet...' he just has to try it harder. So many genres no one could count, so many books no one could read them all. And that's the beauty of it. The choice is so enormous there will be always a new book to start.

Also your language improves with reading, but that's more like the reality part of it all. That's not why we like reading. We like it, because it's good. Reading is like travelling to a different reality, a so far unknown realm of dreams and new feelings. No matter it's a fantasy, crime, or historical novel, fine art or just a book from the shelf, it's something new. A place where you can let your imagination fly.

Literature is music for the eyes and cinematography for the mind.
So go, pick up your piece of Chaucer or Stephen King, or whatever you read and close this stupid blog!

Keep up, just two more, and it's no. 1.!