I just love the silent excitement of book stores and libraries. There are so many stories at your hand simultaneously shouting "choose me, choose me!" Well, knowing me, choosing is not one my stengths, so very often I just have to pick a random book before going crazy. Couple of months ago I was in a book fair with a friend who was anxiosly looking for a book or two. I really tried not to, because that would have taken ages. So I was just satisfied walking around and checking for new things, but then suddenly at one tiny shelf I saw a book that just caught my eye. "Night Train to Lisbon" (http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/suisse/mercier1.htm) were the magical words and before I even noticed I'd already bought the book. That was so me. It is an excellent story about a man who's been living year after year following the same routines until suddenly on an ordinary rainy day he meets this mysterious, exotic woman on a bridge on his way to work. This encounter changes everything and triggers such a strong facinating feeling inside of him that he's ready to leave everything behind and start a train trip to unknown. Lovely book by Pascal Mercier.

Coincidence seems to play quite a big role for me choosing books. Few weeks back - lunch time at the office - I started to read paper that I never actually read. There was a review of a vampire saga - book and a movie - which I'd never heard before. Yet, it caught my interest right away, and surprise, surprise, after work I went looking for "Twilight" in the biggest book store in the city. I got little suspicious, though, about the review article when the first sales person I asked about it took me to youth books department. There, however, was another sales person who again appraised the saga. Then I started to believe that this must be something good. There's just one 'but' there. The saga comprised four books and I bought them all! It took two weeks and I'd read them all. Quite addictive and very entertaining. For two weeks I read all four books one by one every morning in the bus, every afternoon in the bus, and even every evening and even through some nights. I simply couldn't stop and put the books aside. Tempting saga, and I gotta say, Stephenie Meyer (http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/) has done beautiful work. Now I'm looking foward to the movie. Sadly in Norther Europe it won't be released until in the beginning of January.

Luckily Christmas is coming and there are many other books to find and lots of time to read :) Couple of movies wouldn't be so bad either.