One half of a book

Yes! After ten months of reading I'm over the first half of Agatha Christie's Autobiography [page 277 of 551]. My self-confidence is very high now so the other Christie's book in English was written for. As if the other English books were not wait in my bookshelf to be read.

The spot is not written to boast I'm pretty good.
This spot is written to you know I give myself too difficult targets.

anobii.com

Today I found the replacement of books and their pictures on anobii.com is not as unusual as I thought. It is related to books by which I had not added pictures [because I have't them]. So, the mistakes are not my business.
There are a few new incorrect records in my shelf today: Saturnin, Wild swans, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain a hlavně Cyrano de Bergerac.

04/16/2008

Each time when I must go to the work I says to myself that I would like to be a little bit sick to just only to lay in my bed and to read books.
I'm sick for three days now and all my books are still on a bookcase because for all the three days I'm sitting in the bed with my notebook and I'm not able to stop writing, reading, and playing the very stupid game above all.

I really purposed to not switch on the notebook today BUT a paper TV program is lost. Humph. I didn't find any interesting show on online TV program anyway

So, I'm going to read now. There is some Hemingway's book in my bed table. I don't like the book a lot. Nevertheless I'm almost in the middle of he book, so I can try to finished it.

One third of a book

I finished the first part of Agatha Christie's Autobiography [the book has three parts which are split by two sets of photographies] yesterday.
Yes, I really know it isn't important for the World, but I'm really proud of it. I have read it for five months - so long time, because I didn't keep my own obligation: to read at least one page every day.
Now I have to read next 358 pages to finish the book cempletely and I should get to do it because:
1) I've got The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes as gift from my classmate Vendy
2) Vendy have brouht me two Boris Akunin books from London
I must say that I have these Akunin's books in English not to be pride oneself. Unfortunatelly Boris Akunin is not as known writer as I would like he would be in Czech republic hence I guess the Pelegia series will probably not appearance in Czech at all.
Though Albatros publishing [publisher of Akunin's Erast Fandorin series] finished the Harry Potter series finally they could start to publish the other books too.

Potter 7th

Attention: there are a few spoilers in this spot.

I finished the 7th Potter yesterday. I was glad for my all time believing in Snape as Dumbledore's man.

PS: to be named as Albus Severus must IMHO be horrible...especially when your brother and sister have sane names James and Lily.

PPS: Did Rowling name Ron's son Hugo after her favourite Lost character?

Nothing to read

There are five books I haven't yet finished, two unstarted books and two Reflexs [journal] on my bedside table. Nevertheless I'm going to bed and I find that I have nothing to read [as the same sitaution as you have the dressing room full of clothes but you have nothing to dress up for tonight's party]. Gah!

Books and the Русские фильмы

1) I finally finished the terrible book yesterday. The book is terrible because:
a) the translator has translated all the person's first names. He has written Czech Julián, not French Julien and so on. I don't like it. The book is French, the protgonists are French hence their names should be French too,
b) the story is OK but the book is too wordy. And the wordy books are hardly readable,
c) the protagonist Julien is silly but also single-minded, politic and he has an inferiority complex. This is a terrible combination.

2) Karel found a Russian shop in Brno yesterday. There are Russian vodka, candies, books, music and movies on DVD - with region code 2 in the shop. He bought a whole series of Nu pogodi! for my mother because she likes this popular Soviet animated series a lot.
I bought one DVD with these Russian movies:

The Sovereign's Servant [IMDB] [trailer] [web]
The Rider Named Death [IMDB]
The Barber of Siberia [IMDB] [trailer] [web]
Pushkin: The Last Duel [IMDB] [trailer]
The Fall of the Empire [IMDB] [trailer]
The State Counsellor [IMDB] [trailer] [web]
Turkish Gambit [IMDB] [trailer] [web]

and:
Azazel [IMDB] [trailer]!

Because there are 8 movies in one [even double sided] DVD, the movies have low quality and they are without dubbing and titles. Nevermind. The important thing is I don't have to try to find a solution with my Russian DVD Azazel with region code 5.

PS: The main reason why the long picture collection is here is that I like to make pictures collection.

Stardust - the book

I don't want you to think I read the Stardust just because I have seen it at a cinema. No. I already read the book seven years ago and because I liked it, I have decided to read it again. Unfortunatelly I did it at the same time as the movie has been in cinemas and it was difficult to raise the book. Luckily w. has all the Gaimans book at home and she lent it me [thanx].