Currently reading #20

Title: L'albero delle bugie

Author: Frances Hardinge

English: The lie tree

Currently reading #19

Title: Stroria di una ladra di libri

Author: Markus Zusak

English: The book thief

Currently reading #14

Title: Senza nome

English: No name

Author: Wilkie Collins 

Currently reading #13

 Title: Un'estate con la Strega dell'Ovest

English: Not available

Author: Kaho Nashiki

Currently reading #11

Title: Il cannocchiale d'ambra

Author: Philip Pullman

English: The amber spyglass

Series: His dark materials (#3)

Currently reading #10

Title: La lama sottile

English: The subtle knife

Series: His dark materials (#2)

Author: Philip Pullman

Currently reading #9

(Bookcover inspired by the Penguin English Library)

Title: When He was Wicked

Series: Bridgerton (#6)

Author: Julia Quinn

Currently reading #8

(Bookcover inspired by the Penguin English Library)

Title: Romancing Mister Bridgerton 

Series: Bridgerton (#4)

Author: Julia Quinn

Currently reading #7

Title: La bussola d'oro

English: Northern lights

Series: Queste oscure materie - His dark materials (#1)

Author: Philip Pullman

Currently reading #3

 Title: Il segreto del Bosco Vecchio

 English: Not available 

 Author: Dino Buzzati

Currently reading #2

 

Title: Stars Above

Series: The lunar chronicles (#4.5)

Author: Marissa Meyer 

Currently reading #1

The book with which I'm starting the new year.

Title: Winter

Series: The lunar chronicles (#4)

Author: Marissa Meyer

I wish I could say that I emerged to the labours of this world (like so many seem to, nowadays) with limbs of paper and ink flowing from my eyes, but history was quite different than that. 

I hated reading as a child.

Well, maybe not hated hated, but it bored me out of my head. 

Until it found me.

You know the one, every reader knows it. It's the reason we're all here: that single book we couldn't put down, that made us bit our nails to the flesh, that strangled our throats and freed a kaleidoscope of butterflies in our bellies.

That's the book I've chased ever since.

From that day I was twelve and couldn't stop reading in spite of my car sickness, to every time I entered a bookshop afterwards.

And although not every book you read turns into a religious ecstasy (nor it needs to), whenever you do find a book capable of sating your hunger, I believe that's the closest thing to heaven-sent I shall ever experience in both this life and the next (if there's more.)

So here I am, counting my blessings.

✽ The city of dreaming books           

✽ No name (Wilkie Collins)               

✽ Book of a thousand days                

✽ The bronze horseman                    

✽ Emily the Strange (tetralogy)        

✽ Jane Eyre                                           

✽ The thirteenth tale                          

✽ North and South (Gaskell)             

✽ Peanuts                                              

✽ Il porto proibito (Radice/Turconi)

✽ Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

✽ The shadow of the wind