I used to consider reading among my passions..but I’m afraid it isn’t!
If it would be, I would try harder to make it happen. I would arrange my schedule so that I can do it.. I need to read books and short stories for my seminars, but I never managed to read them all!
I love reading, but I just don’t seem to find enough time to read more..until..I enter the exams session!
I feel time is organized in a different way then. It goes by slower than usually and yet faster than I want.
Still..that’s when time seems to be all mine..
I wish I would be in this “read-every-spare-minute-you-have” mood the whole year! I wish I wouldn’t forget that I can really make time to read even when I’m so jammed up..
Reading really is something I love.
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Among my latest readings is the saddest short story I have ever read: Melville‘s Billy Budd, Sailor: (An Inside Narrative). I just found out that it isn’t finished.. that’s probably a clue..
A book I absolutley enjoyed reading is Hawthorne‘s novel The Scarlett Letter. If you want to read it, read it as it is. If not, don’t just read its summary -don’t waste all its beauty! OK?? 
The style of the author is far more delighting than the mere story.
Litera stacojie
The book debates themes like legalism, sin, guilt, dignity, repentence, a person’s evolution and other’s involution, law, truth and so on and it concludes with the words:
“Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!”
Wow!
