Preview of my next blog: ...Coming home.. (Wuthering Heights)

I was thinking of a perfect title for my next blog, and naming it right after the novel, but I needed something more, something that reflects its impact on my life. The only thought of Wuthering Heights makes me feel like I’m perfectly okay, nothing can bother me, it’s just me and the book I love the most, it’s a familiar feeling.. It’s like coming home.

I just finished reading Wuthering Heights (for the 6 or 7th time), something I dare to call my all time favourite book J There are many books that are dear to me and I could add them to “my favourites” section, but this one has completely changed me, as a person, my view of the world, love, passion. It’s the one that taught me that there are such strong feelings like love and hatred which are not opposites but two sides of the coin and depends on who's flipping it.

Nothing could change something I like to call my own personal ritual, first reading it in Slovak, then in English. This little activity of mine fills me with mixture of feelings of pleasure and joy, sadness and eagerness in the same time.

There are tons of things I love about Wuthering Heights. It would definitely take me years to fulfill this satisfaction of mine and write about every single detail that amazes me and always, you’ve heard me right, always takes my breath away.

I wanted to write something from the depth of my heart that could describe what this novel means to me, but then, after typing and deleting the words, something better hit me. I couldn’t have said it better myself than Mr.Steinbeck:

“This thing fills me with pleasure. I don’t know why, I can see it in the smallest detail. I find myself recalling it again and again, each time bringing more detail out of a sunken memory, remembering brings the curious warm pleasure.”

I’m always thinking of Wuthering Heights, it’s like a „book of the wisdom“ for me.

Believe me, when I’m saying, that I would give anything to live in the heart of the Yorkshire remote moorland just when Heathcliff and Cathy did; to be this silent observator... Only if for an instance..

Let me get back to you as soon as I finish reading the Wuthering Heights in EN.