Everywhere Is A Working Space

Pin It       As I mentioned before, I had a long vacation that I partially spent in the summerhouse. Being away from the city, people and everything else should be a mind-cleaning period. Mine wasn't like that though.. So in order to keep my mind away from overthinking, I tried to keep myself busy and luckily enough everywhere is a working space..

Addicted to chains and scales.. And also books..

 

Any four-leaf clovers?

 

Nature is the best cure for mind sometimes

 

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My Real Cabinet of Curiosities

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      I sleep, I read, I draw and sometimes even eat in this very room and this is my favorite wall in it. My real cabinet of curiosities.. and if you look carefully you can also see the terrarium of "Safir" (and many more unrelated things of course:).

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X-Books

Pin It       I am a dedicated reader and books occupy very big space in my life (both metaphorically and literally because my room is filled with them :)

      Getting a new book is one of the things that make me happy. Since people around me know that, I always get books on occasions like birthdays or Christmas, etc. So if I am writing a blog to keep my personal history in a virtual cabinet, I felt that I definitely had to write about my reading habit and favorite pieces of literature.

     I am more into historical, scientific and technical books about archaeology, linguistics, botany, zoology, mythology rather than novels but as long as it is not a romance book I like reading all of them. Some classical novels are exceptional though. It is not so good but I am allergic to bestsellers also. Even if it is a good one, I try to read it after a while.

 My favorite books and authors are as follows:

* Sherlock Holmes series

* All works of Edgar Allan Poe

* Shakespeare

* Umberto Eco

* Patrick Suskind

* Mehmet Hengirmen

* Bernard Werber

* Alexandre Dumas

* Laurence Sterne

* Nikolai Gogol

* Thomas Bernhard

* All kinds of encyclopedias

* Dictionaries

* Printed ancient Ottoman documents

* Ancient Egypt culture

* Astronomy books

* Fantastic Ravenloft series

* Terry Pratchett books

* Writings of ancient philosophers

* Archaeological excavation reports

so forth and so on... (because I felt that my list will go on forever:)

 

      By the way, for a long time I have been looking for a book called "The Wasp Factory" by Iain Banks. It is not sold or printed anymore so if you know a second-hand bookseller where I can find a copy or someone willing to sell (regardless of the country), I will be very glad.  

...And Everything Has Consequences :)

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