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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Lucia Graves
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Lucia Graves
Tanja (Tanychy) St. Delphi's review
bookshelves: favorites, my-little-library
Sep 20, 12
bookshelves: favorites, my-little-library
Read from January 03 to 08, 2012
The fact is that I’ll never be able to write a real review of this book. Here is why :
1. I’m not good enough.
I’m not now and I’ll never be. It doesn’t matter how many books you have read or how smart you are, you’re never good enough for that. You won’t be able to find exact words and it’s not just you. Only person who can is the author himself, but I think he already said everything he wanted.
Don’t believe me?
- “Books are mirrors - you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
- “The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”
- “A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”
- “There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.”
- “In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.”
Do you now?
2. It’s imposible.
I’ll try to describe it. It’s not the same feeling but the result is. You know that moment or better said that feeling when you see someone who means a lot for you and you have that beautiful feeling inside of you. Now try to describe it. You can’t? I know.
3. And last but not least....
Please allow me to qoute the author:
“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later — no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget — we will return.”
And this is mine.
1. I’m not good enough.
I’m not now and I’ll never be. It doesn’t matter how many books you have read or how smart you are, you’re never good enough for that. You won’t be able to find exact words and it’s not just you. Only person who can is the author himself, but I think he already said everything he wanted.
Don’t believe me?
- “Books are mirrors - you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
- “The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”
- “A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”
- “There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.”
- “In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.”
Do you now?
2. It’s imposible.
I’ll try to describe it. It’s not the same feeling but the result is. You know that moment or better said that feeling when you see someone who means a lot for you and you have that beautiful feeling inside of you. Now try to describe it. You can’t? I know.
3. And last but not least....
Please allow me to qoute the author:
“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later — no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget — we will return.”
And this is mine.
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Quotes Tanja (Tanychy) Liked
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
Reading Progress
| 01/03/2012 | page 2 |
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0.0% | "I saw it in library today and I just couldn't resist it. There is one part in the book that says something like there is certain book that you'll read and it will stay inside of you forever and you'll always go back to that book...and I think I found mine!" |
| 01/05/2012 | page 187 |
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38.0% | ""In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend." True story!" |
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Jan 14, 2012 10:31am
Je li ovo prevedeno? Još uvijek nisam otišla do biblioteke da se učlanim. Koja sramota.
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Obavezno mi javis kad je uzmes! :) PS. jesi isla do Konzuma? Ja cu u ponedeljak valjda su stigle knjige.
Išla sam onaj dan kad sam ti rekla,ali nije bilo knjiga. Idem ponovo u ponedjeljak. Mislim,sredina je januara. Rekli su da će stići tada. Prilično sam sigurna da će doći ove sedmice.
Oh I worship every word this man writes! I really hope you'll love it. It's not YA but it's the book for life! :)
Knjiga je fantasticna. Procitao sam srpsko izdanje, i planiram na engleskom. Slazem se u potpunosti sa tvojom recenzijom. Nema dovoljno dobrih reci kojim bi se opisala.
I ja sam citala srpsko izadnje, a nemam nesto zelju da citam englesko, jer kako god to je prevod. Dok ne naucim spanski dobro je i ovako :)




