Moja ocjena: 5 / 5
Goodreads ocjena: 3.88 / 5
Što kada bismo mogli zaboraviti neke stvari? Što kada bismo nešto, što nas je povrijedilo u životu, mogli samo tako obrisati iz sjećanja? Biste li se na nešto takvo odvažili? Biste li neke segmente svog života odlučili ukloniti kako biste mirnije spavali? Biste li imali hrabrosti učiniti si nešto takvo? Ili nekomu svomu?
Što kada biste iz svojeg najbolnijeg sjećanja mogli stvoriti knjigu i ostaviti ju negdje gdje više nikad do nje nećete doći?
Emmett Farmer je knjigoveža i obdaren je sposobnošću kojom drugima pruža olakšanje na način da ih uveže odnosno iz njihovih umova izvuče određena sjećanja, kojih se ti ljudi žele riješiti. U svijetu postoje ljudi koji imaju tu sposobnost i koriste ju kako bi ljudima učinili dobro, kako bi im olakšali život izvlačenjem sjećanja.
Naravno, postoje i oni koji postupak uvezivanja koriste kako bi se obogatili. I to na način da prodaju tuđa sjećanja. Time vaše uspomene bivaju prodane drugima kako ne bi čitali knjige (kao romane smatraju fejk knjigama) već kako bi čitali vaša sjećanja.
Knjiga je podijeljena u tri dijela, u kojima nam glavnu ulogu igra Emmett Famer. Eh sad... kako vam ne bih otkrila previše, koncentrirat ću se samo na najvažnije.
U prvom dijelu pratimo Emmetta na njegovu odlasku sa obiteljskog imanja i dolasku u knjigovežnicu. Čuo je za knjigoveže i za to kako su okarakterizirani kao vještice i čarobnjaci koji isisavaju život iz ljudi. Narod ih ne voli i odbija, a paralelno daju novce kako bi iskoristili njihove usluge uvezivanja. Emmett gaji osjećaje usađene od strane njegove obitelji i prema knjigovežama postupa na krajnje odbojan način, a da sam nije svjestan kako je jedan od njih.
Drugi dio nam opisuje segment Emmettova života, koji mu je nasilno oduzet. U njemu upoznajemo njegovu sestru Altu i mladog bogatunčića Luciana Darnayja. Emmett ga ne može ni nacrtanoga vidjeti, a Alta ga apsolutno obožava.
A u trećem dijelu dolazi do spajanja te dvije priče i do realizacije ogromne snage ljubavi, upornosti, borbe za istinu i posvećenosti... Tada nam se sve kockice počinju otkrivati i sjedati na svoje mjesto. :)
Emmetta, kao glavnog protagonista, moram okarakterizirati kao dječarca koji je toliko nevin i krhak da bi se, pod nekim jačim udarom vjetra, mogao raspasti u tisuće komadića. Zamišljam njegove velike oči iz kojih izranja strah jer ne zna što mu se dogodilo, kakva ga bolest pokosila, ali svjestan je kako nije zdrav. Svjestan je jer svake noći biva isprepadan noćnim morama i buđenjem kroz vriskove.
U drugom i trećem dijelu dobivamo sasvim drugačiju sliku njegove ličnosti. On je hrabar, samouvjeren i odrješit. Povremeno mu se na licu ukaže podrugljivi osmijeh kojim daje do znanja kako je ipak iznad onoga s kime razgovara. Nema onog slabašnog dječarca koji se boji vlastite sjene. On odiše snagom i surovošću nastalom zbog života na selu. Nemojte me krivo shvatiti - on je duša od čovjeka, dobar je, iskren i nadasve vrijedan dečko. To je onaj pravi Emmett Farmer kakav treba biti. I kao takav mi se jako svidio.
Nešto što vam nije rečeno kroz korice knjige jest da se unutar priče skriva i priča o ljubavi. Uvezivanje i uloga knjigoveže nametnuta je kroz sami naziv knjige, ali ona skriva nešto mnogo veće, jače i čišće od samog uvezivanja sjećanja. Upravo zato smatram da ju vrijedi pročitati. Naravno, tematika nije prilagođena za sve - nekima se neće svidjeti, dok će drugi u njoj pronaći sasvim jedan novi svijet i novu perspektivu ljubavi. Ali u mojim očima, radi se o knjizi koju se nikako ne smije zaobići.
O Uvezu bih vam mogla još toliko toga ispričati, samo onda vam ne bih ostavila ništa za čitanje. Ali ono što vam sa sigurnošću mogu reći jest kako je knjiga zbilja odlična, gotovo pa fenomenalna i definitivno će mi ostati u sjećanju. Raspisana je na gotovo 500 stranica teksta, ali takvog teksta da se i ne okrenete, a već ste polovicu prešli.
Prije nego završim, da vas malo potaknem na razmišljanje, rado bih vas nešto priupitala: Cijenite li svoja sjećanja, kakva god ona bila? Jesmo li mi takvi kakvi jesmo kao rezultat naših sjećanja? Jesu li sjećanja i događaji u životu oni koji nas stvaraju, oblikuju i čine ovakvima kakvi jesmo?
Ne znam kakvo je vaše stajalište, ali mogu reći kako mi moja sjećanja puno znače i bila bih krajnje prazna da odjednom bez njih ostanem. Ako se sjetite jedne od prijašnjih recenzija, spomenula sam vam priču sa kovčegom. I postavila vam pitanje: Jednog dana kada odete sa ovog svijeta i sa sobom ponesete svoj kovčeg uspomena, hoće li on biti pun ili prazan? I što ste na to odgovorili?
Kakva god sjećanja bila, ona nas čine takvima kakvi jesmo. Ona nas oblikuju i usmjeravaju dalje u životu. Ovisno o tomu jesmo li iz njih nešto naučili ili nismo. Jesmo li shvatili poruku koju smo trebali iz nekog događaja izvući. A ako uklonimo određeni segment svog života, nemamo što naučiti. Nemamo na temelju čega shvatiti kako nas je život opomenuo i kako smo se zbog toga izgradili.
Ja isto stalno pričam svojim poznanicima kako čitam knjige, proučavam razne teme i čačkam, istražujem i težim znanju, kako bih održala svoj um jakim za sadašnjost, ali pogotovo za starije dane. Ne želim se dovesti u situaciju da, kao fit bakica od 80+ godina, sjedim i gledam kroz prozor, a nisam svjesna svoje okoline i toga što mi oči upijaju.
A ako mi oduzmete sjećanja, što mi jednog dana preostaje? Zapitajte se - što vam ostaje ako odlučite očistiti svoj um od sjećanja samo zato što vas ta sjećanja bole. Koliko god bolna bila, ipak su to sjećanja - na bolno, ali i na ono lijepo koje je prethodilo. Ono vas je oblikovalo u osobu kakva ste danas. I to svakako treba cijeniti. Nije lako pričati jer upravo ta sjećanja naviru na površinu, ali osjetite zahvalnost i cijenite sve što ste proživjeli, a nemojte težiti tomu da ta sjećanja uklonite. Koji put zaborav nije rješenje... :)
Ova mi knjiga nije bila na nikakvom popisu čitanja (ove sam godine odlučila barem to napraviti, biti organiziranija, ali u svijetu knjiga i čitanja mi to zasad ne uspijeva), niti mi je bilo u peti potražiti ju u knjižnici.
Jednostavno mi je pala u ruku. Svidjela mi se naslovnica, kratki sadržaj je 'ajde OK, obećavajući... I ono... možda se iznenadim. Ali kad sam krenula čitati, stranice su se samo počele vrtjeti.
Nisam bila ni svjesna koliki svijet mi je nadohvat ruke. Slijepo sam se vodila poznatim autorima, onima koji su me već osvojili i onima kojima sam se držala za knjige, kao dijete kada čuva omiljenu igračku. Ali sada, redovitim odlascima u knjižnicu, mogu reći kako sam otkrila sasvim jedan novi svijet.
Ne smijem zaboraviti ni sve vas koji ste mi dali svoje prijedloge što ubaciti u redoviti plan čitanja. Vi ste ti koji ste mi otvorili vrata novom svijetu. Drago mi je da ste se u tolikom broju odazvali i dali mi toliko prijedloga jer ste me upravo svojim prijedlozima za čitanje ostavili potpuno bez teksta (a to fakat nije lako).
Tako da HVALA vam na tome! Pišite mi i dalje, a ja ću vrlo rado uključiti vaše prijedloge i dati sliku knjige kroz svoje oči.
Do iduće objave,
Voli vas vaša Goga
My rating: 5/5
Goodreads rating: 3.88 / 5
What if we could forget some things? What if we could just erase something that hurt us in life from our memory? Would you dare to do something like that? Would you decide to remove some segments of your life to sleep more peacefully? Would you have the courage to do something like that? Or someone of your own?
What if you could create a book from your most painful memory and leave it somewhere where you will never find it again?
Emmett Farmer is a bookbinder and is gifted with the ability to provide relief to others by binding them or extracting certain memories from their minds. There are people in the world who have this ability and use it to do good to people, to make their lives easier by extracting memories.
Of course, there are those who use the bonding process to get rich by selling other people's memories. In this way, your memories are sold to others not to read books (as novels are considered as fake) but to read your memories.
The book is divided into three parts, in which Emmett Famer plays the main role. Eh now... I will concentrate only on the most important segments so that I don't reveal too much.
In the first part, we follow Emmett on his departure from the family estate and his arrival at the bookbindery. He had heard of bookbinders and how they were characterized as witches and wizards sucking life out of people. People don't like that kind of people and reject them, and at the same time they give money in order to use their binding services. Emmett cultivates feelings instilled by his family and treats bookbinding in an extremely repulsive way, without being aware that he is one of them.
The second part describes a segment of Emmett's life, which was forcibly taken from him. In this segment, we meet his sister Alta and the young rich man Lucian Darnay. Emmett can't even see him in front of his face but Alta absolutely adores him.
And in the third part, the two stories merge and we witness the realization of an enormous power of love, perseverance, the struggle for truth and dedication ... Then all the dice begin to reveal themselves and come in their place. :)
I have to characterize Emmett, as the main protagonist, as a boy who is so innocent and fragile that, under some stronger gusts of wind, he could fall apart into thousand pieces. I imagine his big eyes from which fear emerges because he doesn't know what happened to him, what disease grabbed him, but he is aware that he is not healthy. He is aware because every night he is terrified by nightmares and waking up through screams.
In the second and third part we get a completely different picture of his personality. He is brave, confident and determined. Occasionally a mocking smile appears on his face, letting him know that he is still above the one who he is talking to. There is no such thing as a weak boy who is afraid of his own shadow. He exudes strength and cruelty caused by life in the countryside. Don't get me wrong - he is a good, honest and above all valuable boy. This is the real Emmett Farmer he should be. And as such, I really liked him.
Something that has not been told to you through the cover of the book is that the story of love is also hidden within. The binding and the role of the bookbinder is imposed through the very title of the book, but it hides something much bigger, stronger and purer than the binding of the memory itself. That's why I think it's worth reading. Of course, the theme is not suitable for everyone - some will not like it, while others will find a whole new world and a new perspective of love. But in my eyes, this is a book that should not be left unread.
I could tell you so much more about The Binding, but then I would not leave you anything to read. But what I can tell you for sure is that the book is really great, almost phenomenal and will definitely stay in my memory. It is written on almost 500 pages, but such text that you don't even realize, and you've already crossed half of it.
Before I finish, to encourage you to think a little, I would like to ask you something: Do you value your memories? Are we who we are as a result of our memories? Are memories and events in life the ones that create, shape and make us who we are?
I don’t know what your thinking about this topic is, but I can say that my memories mean a lot to me and I would be utterly empty to be left without them. If you remember one of the previous reviews, I mentioned the story with the suitcase. And I asked you a question: One day when you leave this world and take your suitcase of memories with you, will it be full or empty? And what was your answer?
Whatever the memories, they make us who we are. They shape us and guide us further in life. Depending on whether we learned something from them or not. Did we understand the message we needed to draw from an event. And if we remove a certain segment of our lives, we have nothing to learn. We have no reason to understand how life has warned us and how we have built ourselves because of it.
I also constantly tell my acquaintances how I read books, study various topics, research and strive for knowledge, in order to keep my mind strong for the present, but especially for the older days. I don’t want to get into a situation where, like an 80+ year old fit grandma, I sit and look out the window and not being aware of my surroundings and what my eyes absorb.
And if you take away my memories, what do I have left one day? Ask yourself - what is left for you if you decide to clear your mind of memories just because those memories hurt you. As painful as it was, it is still a memory - of the painful, but also of the beautiful that preceded it. It has shaped you into the person you are today. And that should definitely be appreciated. It is not easy to talk because these memories come to the surface, but feel grateful and appreciate everything you have experienced, and do not strive to remove those memories. Sometimes, forgetting is not the solution... :)
This book was not on my reading list (this year I decided to be more organized, but in the world of books and reading I am not succeeding so far), nor was my intention to look for it in the library.
It just fell into my hand. I liked the cover, the short content was on OK, promising... And that... I might be surprised. But when I started reading, the pages just started spinning.
I wasn’t even aware of how much of the world was at my fingertips. I was blindly guided by famous authors, those who have already won me over and those to whom I clung to books, as a child when guarding a favorite toy. But now, with regular visits to the library, I can say that I have discovered a whole new world.
I must not forget all of you who gave me your suggestions on what to include in my regular reading plan. You are the ones who opened the door to a new world for me. I am glad that you responded in such a large number and gave me so many suggestions because you left me completely without text with your suggestions for reading (and that is not easy to accomplish).
So THANK YOU for that! Keep writing to me, and I will be very happy to include your suggestions and give a picture of the book through my eyes.
Until next post,
Your Goga loves you
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