let's talk about books baby, let's talk about you and me...

you may find yourself asking why i have turned the salt n' peppa song 'let's talk about sex' into 'let's talk about books'. like so many of life's mysteries, i have no answer, well, i do, it's "i dunno, just 'cause" which is generally considered an unsatisfactory answer, but unfortunately is so often the most accurate.

this may be especially confusing for those of you who know me well, since, although i have a deep and profound (wait, doesn't profound just mean deep...) love of books, certainly my love of sex is more present, if not deeper and profounder (i know it would be more profound, but i like the sound of silly words, like, say, profounder). indeed, every conversation i have generally finds its way back to sex and/or human sexuality eventually. it is my way. so really, "let's talk about sex" should be my anthem. but today the song is running through my head as "let's talk about books". so, i will do just that...

this post will focus on favourite books.

i have a favourite series and a favourite book.

favourite book:

• memoirs of a geisha by arthur golden (knotty, your comment on the last post is what inspired this whole post...)
  

i loved this book so much that i couldn't read another for months afterwards, i didn't want to lose the 'aftertaste'. honestly, i couldn't even tell you what it was i loved so much. the characters were facinating, the story enthralling, the writing beautiful, but accessible. just overall an excellent book. the problem with falling in love with someone's first book is that you may never get to read another by that author.

favourite series:

• his dark materials (the golden compass [or 'northern lights' if you're in the UK], the subtle knife, the amber spyglass) by phillip pullman

god i love this man's writing. brilliant, bloody brilliant. i started reading this before the whole harry potter craze, and i have to say, when the harry potter craze started i couldn't for the life of me figure out why people were praising those books, especially when there were amazing ones like the 'his dark materials' series to sink your teeth into instead. don't get me wrong, i don't have a problem with the harry potter series, i mean, first off, anything that gets kids excited about reading is good in my books, and second, it's fomulaic pulp, but there is nothing wrong with that, it's still fun. it's just not amazing, and people were acting like it was. his dark materials, it is amazing. at the risk of being beaten up by some of my friends, i enjoyed it more than the narnia series. i'm telling you, bloody brilliant books. i cannot stress this enough, go, read the books, they're amazing. and aparently they are making a movie out of them, so go, read them quickly before they are ruined by the movie!

okay, so i'll stop this post here, but i likely will be back, talking about books more, perhaps even today...

do you favourite books? do you have a reason why, or is it just 'cause?