Bookshelf please!

A bookworm who's in the process of moving home absolutely needs a good bookshelf to bring along all of her paper buddies. Ricky and I have spotted some good bookshelf but haven't bought any because they were either too expensive or too big to fit! We'll hopefully find the right one soon!

Something clean and simple, I like this one a lot! And white is definitely a colour we like!

This one isn't bad either. 

I fell in love with this one, alas it's not very cheap! 

And this CD shelf we will buy from Ikea later in August. We want to get two, one white and one black. 

Real Books vs Virtual Books

I am the proud owner of a first generation Kindle. My One & Only tends to spoil me rotten and likes to second my own passions. It was Christmas 2011 when I received my very first ebook reader. We purchased it on Amazon and it took a good fortnight for it to get delivered. The await made it all the more desiderable and finally getting it home, safe and sound, from abroad was exciting to say the least! I remember bragging about how cool it was to read books on my Kindle. I would show it everyone and tell everyone that an e-reader was the best mean to read a book. No doubts it is a good device to read books, especially when travelling and when abroad. But I am recently reconsidering the power of paper over technology and I think that both kind of books have their unique and positive points that make them special to their reader.

An ebook reader (no matter what brand it is) is undoubtedly easy to carry in a girl's bag.  It's very light at weight (mine is lighter than 250 gr) and so thin you can fit it almost in every bag! And ebook reader is not too expensive to purchase and once you get the right device you can find many free pdf files of whatever book you are willing to read. So I would add cheap to the plus of ebooks reading. You can easily find whatever ebook you are curious to read online and no matter of what language you would read that very story in,you can easily do it. Furthermore there's no awaiting when purchasing an ebook online: the very same instant you press the buy button you get it downloaded into your device. Call it fast! 

On the contrary an old fashioned paper book has its own beauty, especially when it's a second hand book we are talking about. It carrie a story with it, that lays in its yellowed pages, in the unique smell its pages hold. A paper book is coloured, enriches your bookshelf and decorate your house. A paper book is real, you can touch it, smell it, underline it (though I am not too much into the latter), lend it and ask for it back, a real paper book is thick and fill in your bag and you can feel its weight when carrying it around with you. I especially like paperbacks because I love to "live" them, as I call it. I love to bend their spine, to leaf through their pages again and again, to wear them out, untill I am fully satisfied with what I've experienced. I am lately considering going back to some good paper book reading for the time being. Of course, I will be returning to e-reading as soon as I feel like to, because as I already said each one of said books has its own beauty and merits! 

What type of books are you into reading the most? 

On wedding lists.

In Italy you can't get married without opening a wedding list somewhere. It's little use to tell people you need no stuff for various reasons, they will want to give you a proper gift (money seems to be inappropriate gift to some) and will ask again and again when and where will you open your wedding list.

We didn't want to set any ourselves, because we wanted to buy things we still need when we found an offer. Yet we had to give up and follow traditions that badly wanted us to open our own wedding list. Now, if you think it's easy to go to some shop and chose this and that to fill in an empty paper with things you would like people to give you on your wedding, well you are wrong. It isn't easy nor funny. I tried to concentrate as much as I could on the task, yet I failed at it on some extent and only managed to put in the list a few bits. I can't think of other things I would really need for our house. Especially I can't force myself to pick a set of dishes that costs some 100€ when I can find something as useful, and maybe more colorful (even if less smart, I agree) for half the price at some market. Someone has already "scolded" me that I don't look like a real bride, because I don't act as one. Now I ask, how does a proper bride acts?

Anyway, in one hour time I managed to chose a few bits. Ricky did better than me when chosing our future tv and stereo to fit in the list!

Who would ever go without an ironing board in life?! I wouldn't. 

And of course an electric iron. This one looks like professional ones. I hope it will do most work itself when I will be too tired to do the ironing myself.

Espresso maker. Because we are italian. And no italian family can go without their espresso.

When you are a dog owner and said dog is the no.1 world's hair producer you do need a good hoover and this one seemed to be the right one. It's dog-proof!

A coffee set to go together with the espresso maker, of course.

My favourite piece: a pizza set! Ain't this one cool?!

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overseas trip planning

We're almost done with our honeymoon booking. I am literally thrilled at the thought of flying to the States! I think I've been dreaming about visiting there for at least a good 25 of my 31 years of life, so the chance to actually travelling there is such a big deal!!!

Plans for the honeymoon include: 3 days in Boston, that should be enough to visit all the main sites and to spend a big chunck of a day at Harvard campus. I can't wait to visiting there! I still can't get over the fact that Rory Gilmore enrolled at Yale and dumped Harvard... Now you get a vague idea of how hyper I can be at the thought of actually stepping foot in the Campus!

Following Boston, we'll make the most of 3 whole days in Chicago. To tell you the truth, I've not got an idea of what's worth visiting there. I mean I barely know anything about said city, other than it's really worth visiting. Any suggestion is very welcome!

Our honeymoon will end with a fabulous 10 days in New York City, were we've already rented a small flat in Harlem. Oh man! I signed a real rental contract with an american landlord! How exciting! And we'll be spending 10 whole days in NYC, pretending we're real Americans! How cool!

So far I can only see good sides to the whole wedding thing!
... And I am sure that with a man like mine by my side forever (and ever), marriage will be the best thing I ever achieve in my life!

Note: All the photos of this entry are not mine.