Towns, Boys and the Rye

I let go of 19 books including my beloved Harry Potter Series (I have a great attachment to the series since I read them when I needed some magic) simply because I don't have enough space to store them and I can't allot time to clean and reread them.  I'm demolishing my dream library, maybe I'll force myself to love reading via ebook or immediately give away a book to someone after reading.

I'm keeping some though: the ones that are unique and I keep on rereading and those that I haven't read yet.  Here are three of my recent reads.

sorry about the bed background

Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
Finally getting use to the style of Neil Gaiman.  The guy is a god in terms of mixing current times with folklore, myths and the like.  Anansi Boys focuses on these two brothers: (there's a twist here which is really great, I wish I could tell you) one who is more of the god who do as he pleases while the other one is more of a human who can't believe that he has a brother and that his father is a god.  The two brothers kind of define two usual human:  One is full of confidence and does everything he wants without thinking what others might think or if his actions are right or wrong while the other one just go the the everyday life flow when clearly there's more that life can offer to him (this hits me).

“The important thing about songs is that they're just like stories. They don't mean a damn unless there's people listenin' to them.”


Paper Towns, John Green
Another of John Green's creation which is more closer to me than The Fault in Our Stars because I can totally relate.  It's about this Marga who slowly became a mystery to his childhood friend, Quentin, as he try to find her trail when she left home.  People have different perspective and think of a person differently with what others think of that same person.  A person act and adopt to its environment, sometimes loosing its own character and letting others defining it, like a blank piece of paper letting anyone write that half or most of the time leads to being unorganized, unrecognized, messy and unwanted.

“I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”


the Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Not all plans go according to plan be it by someone else for us or by us to ourselves.  Expectation too acts like that.

“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”

Depressing?  Well there's more to life than this blog.  Enjoy!

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February 2014 Read: The Fault In Our Stars

While almost everyone is preparing for a date or is going crazy over valentine sales, I'm just sitting drinking water with lots of fruits and eating sandwiches and reading a book.

Today is Valentine's day so I'll be a bit cheesy and chose to reread The Fault In Our Stars by John Green.  It caught my attention again because of the release of it's movie trailer which my friend said is a tear jerker.  Hmmm, sorry but I didn't cry over this book but I like it (or maybe I read this with just a so-so feeling, well I'm rereading it again, will let you know if I now have more emotion).

"This is not so much an author's note as an author's reminder of what was printed in small type a few pages ago: This book is a work of fiction. I made it up.  Neither novels nor their readers benefit from attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.  I appreciate your cooperation in this matter."

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 It'sreal, I mean John Green didn't cover up some facts in this world so that the book will have a happy ending.  Opps, is that a spoiler?  Anyway, the song that always pops in my mind everytime I remember this book is Wings by Birdy and I suggest that if ever you'll read the book, play the song when you'll already on the last few chapters.

"Hazel is terminally ill. She is going to die. But when her mother forces her to go to Cancer Kid Support Group, she meets Augustus, and her brief life changes as she experiences love and life for the first time. Together, Hazel and Augustus take a look at what life means and what they should do about it. In their own "weird" way - to quote their dads - they seize what time they have left and change it to fit their view of how things should be."

Before I spoil more spoils (like what I did with my friend), I'll just greet you Happy Valentine's Day and leave you with the below quote from the book.

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Everyone should enjoy this day.  Every person deserves to be love!

Thanks for reading. Till then. Bye!