It's raining man

No, I won't write about how I get soaked day by day, then sweat on public transport vehicles, climb stairs, forget my umbrella at every possible place, no.

Yesterday I finished Vonalkód (bar code) by Krisztina Tóth, which is a collection of 15 short stories. It was her first prosaic book, published in 2006, though for some reason at the reading I attended last Friday they kept claiming that she had started to write prose 2 years ago, i.e. in 2009.

This is a very interesting book. (Stupid sentence, I know, but that's the simple truth.) First of all, I really like the title, which in Hungarian is made up of the words "line" and "code." I think both are important concepts in contemporary literary discussion, in addition, "code" has a mysterious flavor. The reason why I got into all this is that all the 15 stories have a subtitle, and in each subtitle we can find the word "line," e.g. The line's busy, etc. These titles not only demonstrate how colourful the Hungarian language is, with all the different meanings and contexts of the word vonal (line), but also they imply a creative and linguistically aware author.
The 15 stories are of different themes, era, and setting; though I have found some key elements, such as the loss of love (intertwined with the loss of naivety), the body problematized, the approach of death, growing old, and loss in general. I know that we shouldn't mustn't identify the author as the narrator of the book, but based on her stories I always picture Krisztina Tóth as a wandering woman with a child, similar to my mother actually.
The stories and the style moved me so much that I actually considered writing some prose myself, which I haven't done for ages. When the idea first came I thought I didn't have anything to say, but then my mind started zipping and I came up with at least 8 or how many topics. Of course love would be a key element, as I'm also a falls-for-the-wrong-man type, but I would like to portray those episodes that are somewhat genuine and mean something beyond the usual content of boy-meets-girl stories. Another important thing which I think every writer has to face is their ancestors, which I'm also planning to do as my grandparents frequently appear in my dreams and thoughts.
Unfortunately, I don't have the powerful ending of the short stories in my head yet. But I've considered one of the episodes of my life for a long time, and I am also determined to give impressive and intellectual titles to the stories.