Elin

Hello everybody, I'm Elin. Surprisingly enough, I'm here because I love to read - mostly fiction but pretty much anything goes if it sounds interesting. At the moment I have a hard time to read anything other than melancholy novels like Persuasion, Wuthering Heights, the Bell Jar.. I have a soft spot for the dark and twisted and love stories that doesn't really work. My guilty pleasure is the Twilight saga, I can't understand my obsession with these books but I'm hooked and can't keep from re-reading them. Well, that's that I think. I hope to find lots of discussions about authors, their books and characters here and hopefully some new friends!

I have always loved these lines from Jane Austen's Persuasion, they're so full of pain and longing and loss.. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

I love this book! It might very well be the most amazing book I've ever read. Her way of describing Astrid's world is painfully beautiful and full of longing and suffer. I really like how the text is thick of adjectives that makes every scene as clear as if you're seeing it on a screen. Mother-daughter relationships are almost always interesting to read about because they are so powerful and in a way most essential to who we will become, and the bond between Astrid and her mother is no exception. No matter how much Astrid might hate her mother for what she put her through she'll always love her and long for her.

I love it, and I despise myself for it. It takes up such an absurd part of my life now, and I can't even understand how or why. She's not that great of an writer and the story shouldn't be so captivating. But for some reason it is and I can't stop re-reading them or just bits and chapters if I'm in a hurry.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront

Wow. That's absolutely beautifully said. Wuthering Heights might just be the best book ever written.

I have quite a few, but they usually tend to stay in those books that I keep re-reading parts or chapters from. Lately I've started using ribbons, looks rather nice (:

I think Holy Fools is my favourite of her books. Might have something to with the fact that I've always found monasteries, travellers and that supernatural - witchery theme very fascinating. It has a lot in common with Chocolate and especially the sequel The Lollipop Shoes. Which might be why it's another favourite of mine. JH has a prose that's quite poetic and I really like how she describes the bond between an mother and her daughter(s). I never got into Gentlemen & players before I had to return it and can't rememeber if I ever did finish Coastliners... but really liked Five quarters of the orange.

"I suppose it doesn't matter," Maggie said harshly. "It won't get a chance to tell tales." Jeb sighed and pulled a bandanna - all but hidden by his beard - from around his neck. The Host by Stephenie Meyer