Sunday, July 15

lets talk books






dress - self made
sandals - novecento

when i was a kid
i rather stayed at home reading books
than going out to play with my friends
..
i'm one of those peeps that stay up all night
when book is too exciting
refusing to leave it, before reading the last sentence
..
i'll always remember the day
when winnetou died
i think that's the day when my childhood was over
i was devastated for a long time, crying and not sleeping and everything
and when it was over, i was suddenly a grown up
..
childhood obsession with karl may
was replaced with later obsession with henry miller
he was and is my favorite pervert (sorry charles bukowski, though i love you too)
every time i read him, i feel like i'm reading my thoughts
i feel like i know him, in some disturbing way
..
then it was all about good ol' edgar allan poe
..
then i discovered magic realism
and dived into the sea of marquez and rushdie and bulgakov
wanting to drown and stay in their fantastic worlds for good
.. i never get over any of those fellas..
midnight's children is going to be my favorite book until the day i die,
i just know it, no matter what i might read in the meantime
(i read the damn thing seven times, after all
that's how much i love it)
..
after that, i had a short fling with fantasy books
but it never was my thing
though i loved douglas adams a lot
..
then it was poetry
insane amounts of jacques prevert, and neruda, lorca, mayakovsky, stanescu
..
one day, it stopped..
i just stopped reading anything
and that reading vacuum went for a while
i never completely understood why 
..
it infected me last year, again
now all i ever want to do is read books
and than read more books
i don't have favorites anymore
give me a book
and i gonna read it
hell, i gonna devour it
and than have another one
..
last week favorites:
the road - cormac mccarthy
papa you're crazy - william saroyan
the ring is closed - knut hamsun
..
any suggestions?
..
and sorry my post has nothing to do with the dress from the pics
i just can't talk fashion these days
grave digging on friday the 13th sort of killed my fashion sense
..
mokosha


32 comments:

  1. KatarinaJuly 15, 2012 at 9:40 PM

    Did you get the fabric on one of work travel trips? It looks gorgeous. The simple shape is perfect to make it shine.

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    1. mokoshaJuly 17, 2012 at 1:49 PM

      hehe, i did actually.. i always buy fabric instead of souvenirs on my trips :)

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  2. lisa g.July 15, 2012 at 10:25 PM

    the dress is gorgeous, i've been really into maxi's lately!

    i know what you mean about losing the appetite for reading for a period, happened to me too. happily i'm back on the bandwagon again.

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    1. mokoshaJuly 17, 2012 at 1:51 PM

      thanks lisa.. i'm also into maxis lately, not the thing of choice though - i work in shorts, and i'm outside all day long, under the sun, and my legs look ridiculous, so i kind of can't wear regular stuff hehe

      strange thing, isn't it.. i would like to be able to know what made me loose appetite for books, so i can prevent it next time :)

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  3. Merche MartinezJuly 15, 2012 at 11:47 PM

    I love the fabric on your maxi dress, it is perfect for it.
    Wow! You are in reading mode now! I´ll have to check out some of the authors you mention. Right now I´m reading Dime Quien Soy (Tell me who am I) from Julia Navarro, a Spanish writer. It´s pretty good but I don´t think it is translated.
    Kisses

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    1. mokoshaJuly 17, 2012 at 1:54 PM

      thanks mm.. i hope to learn spanish one day, some of my favorite writers wrote in spanish, i would like to be able to read them in original :)

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  4. random catJuly 16, 2012 at 10:53 AM

    Ja sam skoro zavrsila Beli tigar Aravinda Adige. Knjiga mi se strasno svidela, osim sto vise bas i ne zelim da idem u Indiju. Ja sam imala slican zivot uz knjige i slican knjizevni post, koji je nedavno prekinut.
    :)

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    1. mokoshaJuly 17, 2012 at 1:56 PM

      moracu da to pronadjem ubrzo, ja sam zbog 'dece ponoci' apsolutno opsednuta indijom.. nadam se da cu uspeti da je posetim ove ili sledece godine :)

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  5. sallie oleta barbeeJuly 16, 2012 at 3:53 PM

    gravedigging on friday the 13th?!?! how appropriate! i'm also going to check out some of those authors next time i stop by the library. i've been on a raymond chandler kick - pulpy private eye/film noir stories. will always have a big soft spot for john fowles ("a maggot" being my favorite) and "the sot weed factor" by john barthes.

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    1. mokoshaJuly 17, 2012 at 2:07 PM

      maggot sounds quite appropriate too.. mist find that one asap :)

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  6. marcy harriell | oonaballoonaJuly 16, 2012 at 5:50 PM

    when i saw your first picture i yelled at the screen COME PLAY WITH ME MY FRIEND! and then i read your first paragraph. come read books with me?

    i had the same experience with reading, i'm just now slowly getting back into it. used to collect them like trophies. so now i'm adding "midnight's children" and your last three faves to my list (even have "the road" handy, just haven't opened it). and i will suggest: "evidence of things unseen" by marianne wiggins. i want to wrap that book in soft velvet and let it rest under starlight until i'm ready to read it for the ninth time.

    i love this post. YOUR DRESS. IS STUNNING.

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    1. mokoshaJuly 17, 2012 at 2:15 PM

      you know, sometimes i see you as a sister i never had :) a twin, perhaps.. i'm so glad i finally found you, sis.. have to find that book, it's so not translated here, but i might try reading it in english..

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    2. marcy harriell | oonaballoonaJuly 19, 2012 at 6:23 PM

      absolutely same here. and i even twinned you once with red hair, before we met. it looks WAY better on you, sis.

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  7. hiPopJuly 17, 2012 at 9:36 AM

    hajde prvo moda - odlicna je DIY haljina!

    pa knjige - super mi je ovaj book CV, kratka istorija u nekoliko knjiga...i ja sam (nekada) manicno citala knjige...nazalost, sada me day job i svakodnevne obaveze toliko ubiju, da se ne secam kada sam zavrsila (pocnem ja!) knjigu.... :(

    pa preporuke - hvala za tvoje :)
    iako je nisam zavrsila, sa pola knjige vicem - Fukoovo klatno, Umberto Eko...pa francuski cinik Misel Uelbek, njega uvek... <3

    A sto se Sombora tice - ako si tamo tokom leta, obavezno De Sol, i za kupanje, i uvece...i generalno Kanal, Dunav i sva voda oko Sombora, Bezdana i Apatina...Pa kafe Des Artes, idealan za prvu jutarnju kafu...

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    1. mokoshaJuly 17, 2012 at 2:20 PM

      :) hvala na komplimentima.. knjige cu obavezno da potrazim, cula sam za to fukoovo klatno vec, zvuci mi skroz obecavajuce..
      evo, juce smo pristigli u sombor, danas ce pasti prvo kupanje :) sad, dal' na kanalu ili bazenu, jos nismo utanacili.. mislim da cemo se sombor i ja bas lepo slagati, divno je ovde.. cim se malo odomacim, idem da potrazim de sol (a u des artes kafeu smo vec bili, divan je)

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  8. MateaTPolJuly 17, 2012 at 10:15 PM

    odlicno ti stoji, super print i sve super!

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  9. Leah FranquiJuly 19, 2012 at 6:36 AM

    I shouldn't be so astonished that you've just chronicled the majority of my literary evolution, but I am. Have you read Lily Prior? Or Jhumpa Lhari, the Interpreter of Maladies, Unaccustomed Earth? Life altering books. I adore Mikhail Bulgakov, adore, adore, adore. I love Gogol, Dostoevsky, Rushie now and forever. Have you read Kundera? You must have. Tom Stoppard, though the name would never tell you, is also Czech, playwright, amazing. Tony Kushner will change your life. Pynchon, right now I'm reading the Crying in Lot 49. Turgenev, stuffy but passionate. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao and Everything is Illuminated made me sob. The Elegance of the Hedgehog did too. And while it never needs to be said, Chekhov, if you would like to see all of life in the space of 4 acts.

    And Lorca. Read Lorca.

    And Terry Prachett. Hilarious. Fantasy. Similar to Neil Gaiman but to my mind, superior.

    Lovely dress.

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    1. mokoshaJuly 19, 2012 at 9:21 PM

      i'm on my quest to find bunch of the books you listed.. you got me curious, lady

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    2. Leah FranquiJuly 23, 2012 at 7:18 AM

      If you need them, I will send them to you.

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    3. mokoshaJuly 23, 2012 at 5:16 PM

      ehehee.. you crazy thing.. i've located them in local book store :) some of them, at least.. just need to find some time to pick them up :)

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  10. UnknownJuly 19, 2012 at 4:53 PM

    You're much better read than me, but I'd still recommend "Blindness" by Saramago. It's a tough little book, but it will be a joke after "The Road" (which my stomach didn't allow me to finish).
    Also, if you want a light read (and you find a translation for it) I strongly recommend Andrea De Carlo, especially Due di due ("Two Out of Two")

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    1. mokoshaJuly 19, 2012 at 9:23 PM

      i should read it then :) i started reading 'the road' and i just had to read it at once, i couldn't leave it, not even for a moment, not even to go to toilet :)

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  11. AnonymousJuly 19, 2012 at 6:05 PM

    Yes, used to read like a maniac on speed. Not at all now. Used to love Umberto Eco (okay, I confess, I am a conspiracy theorist) and stuff like E.M. Forster's Room With A View...okay, so I am a romantic too.

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    1. mokoshaJuly 19, 2012 at 9:30 PM

      ehehe, romantic conspiracy theorist with amazing design skills.. you have no time for books, with all the evil genius creative moments

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  12. AnleahJuly 19, 2012 at 7:15 PM

    Gle, fina je haljina ali me knjige baš više zanimaju.
    Od Millera sam nedavno pročitala par knjiga i iako me Tropic of Cancer ostavila poprilično ravnodušnom Plexus me oduševila i danima sam poslije hodala pod dojmom te knjige. Sad nastavljam dalje s Millerom, on mi nekako dobro dođe sad kad sam Bukowskog iščitala. Bukowski je dobar i jako ga volim, ali Miller ima tu neku divlju energiju.
    I meni se dešavalo da se zasitim knjiga, ali to kod mene traje samo sedmicu ili dvije, ne znam bi li preživjela veći period vremena :)

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    1. mokoshaJuly 19, 2012 at 9:34 PM

      :) i meni je rakova obratnica omiljena.. ja sam se s milerom upoznala uz knjigu koja se zove cvet henrija milera, a u kojoj su probrani odlomci iz nekoliko njegovih knjiga.. to mi je bila biblija svojevremeno, mucena knjiga se sva pohabala od preteranog citanja :) tada sam mastala da jednog dana odem u pariz i zivim tako razuzdano, divlje i poluklosarski kao henri.. ah, tinejdzerski snovi :)

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  13. Tim McgrawJuly 21, 2012 at 9:38 AM

    love your blog x

    Dreamlover

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  14. StephanieJuly 25, 2012 at 7:16 PM

    Love your dress! Beautiful silhouette and fabric.

    I just read Bukowski for the first time (Ham on Rye) and I'm not sure what to make of him. I read more George R.R. Martin, Douglas Adams and Neil Gaiman... I love Terry Pratchett, too. He builds these absurd worlds and characters. His books are witty and fun.

    If you don't mind violence - Kung Fu High School. If you want laughs - White Teeth.

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  15. AnonymousAugust 8, 2012 at 2:54 PM

    Alistair Reynolds, Iain M Banks. 'nuff said.

    No wait, there's more-cool dress btw XD

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