Books, Books, Books

PS - One of those books was The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. And it was an enjoyable read. Went by too quickly, though. Took only a few hours. Shame on me for not reading slower.

In the book, there's a character who has the last name Van Houten. I knew I had heard that before but I was too interested in the story to really think about where I had heard it before. Lucky me, though, since the book pointed it out for me. Van Houten Cocoa is really famous in Japan. All over Japan, it's just everywhere. Powder, can, hot, cold, solid, liquid, if it could have been another form I'm sure it'd be here that way as well. Now I'm not a very seasoned traveller. I've really only been to the states, a few provinces in Canada and Japan. So I can't say what's been going on with it in Australia or the UK or anywhere else in the world, but man. Japan is all about the Van Houten cocoa.

Yay, books!

I bought a bunch of books from Amazon, because I love Amazon. Amazon.jp, I mean. Because I can totally buy things online without using a credit card. I will never cease to be amazed at how handy this is for me.

Anyway I received the package on Thursday night and despite having a really busy weekend, I managed to read all the books(!) before the next Thursday hit.

Have you ever had that feeling where you really into a good book and then you realize that your nearing the end of your super awesome book and you get a little sad that you know it has to end? I know that feeling.

Or how about when you read through a nicely sized book at an above average pace (1400 pages. 2 days.) you get to the end and....... the ending is not as satisfying as you thought it would be. It doesn't even have to be a nicely sized book. Just any book that you enjoy reading and the ending leaves an unpleasantness, kind of like drinking anything with sucralose in it, behind.

So I'm finished all my books, which makes me always want to read more books but there's a couple problems with that. 1) Finding English books for English people to read are far and few between around here 2) That leaves me with the internet which can be a gamble 3) There is nooooo spaaaace here. I have my books stored in the Amazon boxes that they came shipped in. And those boxes are being stored in random areas of the house. Like the bathroom. And the hallway.

I was watching my niece (niece? Niece-in-law?) read earlier today, so I asked her if she liked to read. And she said "No, not really" To which I was like "Uhh... okay... but you have a book..." And I'm not 100% on her answer but I believe she said that she reads to read. I suppose there are worse reasons to read, haha.