I didn’t really know what to post today because i am a bit unmotivated to take photos with this weather. I may sound crazy but i hate the summer! Photographically speaking, It flattens everything into a ball of lights and nature looks like a green/yellow bunch of nothing. Not to mention the heat and the sweat. So i thought about the Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simmons. I bought a new version last week, wrapped in a tornado of emotion. Seeing this book after so many years brings me back to the summer when i was 15 (sadly, almost 12 years ago). I had had a critic appendicitis 3 days before leaving for summer holiday with my family. My parents are cooks and had a restaurant so they very rarely had holidays. At that time, i remember, they hadn’t been on summer holiday for something like 4 years. And i was ruining it all. So we went to the hospital and the surgeon said: “let’s go to the operation theatre right now” but i refused because i didn’t want to ruin the party to my whole family. I risked my life and was sent home, against medical advice, with painkillers for horses and a list of meds to avoid the worst but it was high risk. But i am as stubborn as a rock and I don’t know how, i survived, my appendicites stabilized and we went on holiday. My mom had bought The Bronze Horseman and i had finished the books i had brought with me in 3 days so when she didn’t read, i started reading her book. Obviously, it was love at first chapter but we both wanted to finished it, so we did something i would never do to a book: we split it into chapter, tearing it apart so that we could both read it. the book was obviously destroyed and after we finished it we had a bunch of flying pages left. 12 years later, i wanted my mom to have it back and so this is a present for her. Do you have any book memory you are bound to? #bookmemory #paullinasimmons #thebronzehorseman #booktag
