Coincidences

Coincidence is the noteworthy alignment of two or more events or circumstances without obvious causal connection. The word is derived from the Latin co- ("in", "with", "together") and incidere ("to fall on").

On my last backpacker place in Thailand, they had a big library of dvd's to watch, and books to swap. After a long time roaming through the books, i took two. The first was a fantasy book called "Black sun rising", and the second was "Shogun".
Now, the first one was chosen because i wanted some sci-fi/fantasy book for a change, and it looked readable, and the second because it was recommended to me, and i always wanted to read it, so i was pretty happy to find it :).
"Black sun rising" turned out to be an excellent book, but i was quite unhappy to discover it's the first book of a trilogy.
"Shogun" is in the last stages of reading, and it's an amazing book too.
Since it's my last book, i wanted to go and buy a new one when i got back to Rockhampton from the farm. They have a small exchange library, and Robby, the lady that works there told me to take a look, maybe i'll find something. I told her that i looked last time i was there, and didn't find anything (mostly girlie books, and some german books), but that I'll look again.
I found a book from the same author that wrote "Shogun" :), and it's as big, so it'll keep me occupy for quite some time.
Today, we went walking in the city, and it started to rain like there's no tomorrow, so we hoped into a book shop, just to look around, and maybe find the name of the author who wrote "Black sun rising", or the sequels. I looked for an hour at different books, leafing through some that seemed interesting, wishing i could buy some of them, and read them, but knowing that it's not feasible while traveling. Even went twice through the sci-fi/fantasy section, but for no avail.
Then, just before leaving, I decided to go to the basement level, to take a look at the sales books, and then a book caught my eye. "When true night falls", it rang a bell ... and as you might already have deduced from the name of the post, it turned to be the second book of the trio, costing only 15$ instead of 20.95$. So, i bought it.
And now i have plenty of reading material, a lot of extra weight to carry around, and i need to hope that the good fortune that smiled at me this far will lead me to the third book somehow :).



* This entry was written with the English challenged people in mind :) *