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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January 2014 Read: American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Nope, I'm not going to do a book review ala high school style.  I'm actually not going to make a book review because I believe each reader have their own interpretation and in their minds...well in my mind...hmmm let's just use in our mind, we make or build our own worlds when reading, am I right?  I hope yes!

Instead, I'll just be talking about the book that I'm currently reading because reading the books that I horded last year is in my to do list and Neil Gaiman' American Gods is one of them.

American Gods
Neil Gaiman

I already started reading this and I'm halfway through it but because of change of work schedule and some kind of un-understandable depression, I completely didn't have the time to read unlike before wherein I wouldn't sleep unless I finish the book that I'm reading.

American Gods caught my attention because I stumbled on an amazing list before (I forgot where) and it's number one.  Also included in the list is the Battle Royale.

Neil Gaiman's writing style is very new to me and I have to admit that it took me a lot of chapter before I could get a grip of the book.  Then I get excited with how the story goes then I get lost and the cycle goes on and on and it's taking me time to finish the book.

synopsis

If you already read American Gods by Neil Gaiman let me know what you think and help me know more about the book.  Oh and if you happened to stumble on the list that I'm talking about above, please give me the link too :)

Thanks for reading. Till then. Bye!