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Book Frenzy

Posted in: ~Wednesday Posts | 2008 posts | Books | Cringy Teenage Years | Diana Wynne Jones | Interest | Life

I started reading books again a few months ago. I don't mean it as I've never read books during my form 6 days - only that, I scarcely read any fiction books at that time.

I have many unread books in my bookshelf. Mostly are classic novels... I've become fond of classic ones since I read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë in Form 5 and been buying classic novels whenever I have money.. I've read Wuthering Heights but don't have much thoughts about it.

*sigh* I've forgotten how much reading books can be exciting and addicting. Surprisingly, I found it more fun than watching serial dramas because it's all happening in my mind - I can pick or create any cast I like according to my preference. It's a very peculiar (in a good way) experience to me actually. There are times I have to hold myself from continue reading because I want to keep it for tomorrow... but at the same time, dying to know what happened next.


Hehe... recently I'm into Diana Wynne Jones (DWJ) books once again. Hmmm. I've started reading her books while I was in form 2. There were plenty of them in the school library. Now to think of it - I am glad the library teacher bought them. I think I started off with "Charmed Life"... and I love it. It's one of my favourite for the Chrestomanci series. I did try reading "Howl's Moving Castle" but I returned it to the library early and didn't bother to re-borrow because I thought it was boring in the beginning.

But, - oh, man - how wrong was I to think it's boring. I borrowed it once again in form 5 and determined to finish it. I regretted not reading it earlier, you know. I am permanently in love with it because of its characters. That's a very nice twist in Sophie's character. Come to think of it, most DWJ books are like that. You were given the impression of dull, normal, uninteresting etc characters in the beginning.. and then suddenly, as you read on, the story becomes more interesting and intriguing - and that's when it's hard to put the book down. You just must finish it on the spot.

The sequel to "Howl's Moving Castle", "Castle in the Air" didn't give much effect to me but I still find it enjoyable because most of the characters I like in "Howl's Moving Castle" are there. I can't wait for the latest sequel which will be out this year in June! Hmmm. I wish I can find a hardcover version locally.

Time: 2008-03-05T15:01:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: ~Wednesday Posts , 2008 posts , Books , Cringy Teenage Years , Diana Wynne Jones , Interest , Life


Blabbers #1 : Post too long?

Posted in: ~Wednesday Posts | 2008 posts | blog | Cringy Teenage Years

Ha, 1st blabber post.
I'm a virgoan. But I won't say that I'm a highly-organized person because my room can be as messy (but not too much) as Nodame's room. Random-ness #1... Blabbers #1? Haha... I've given them numbers so that I can keep track how many random-ness and blabbers have I posted. It's kind of organized to be labelled/categorized that way.. As this blog is just, what, 2 months old?, I might as well make it all organized early. Hmmm. *Maybe that's where my perfectionism is.*

I know my previous post was very long but I didn't realise that it affected the appearance of the post. It seems separated (can't find another word to describe it) in the middle near the blockquote part.

I removed the long quote I made and it returned to its normal look. Then I add a thumbnail image and there it went again. Lastly, I settled down with just an url to the image... I'll keep in mind to avoid making my posts too long. Huh. That means I have to make it into parts if I talk too much in a post.

And the "highlighted" links aren't highlighted all the time. It seems to be related with how the url looks like, whether it ends with a .com, .html or etc... There must be a technical reason on the net to this, but I'm to lazy to find out... Well, if someone who knows happened to drop by, please leave a comment about the reason...

edit: It seems that the links problem only occur after I used blockquote... Oh, boy... I think I can't use much blockquote in the middle of my post anymore.. except if it's in the end of the post, of course...

Time: 2008-03-05T13:10:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: ~Wednesday Posts , 2008 posts , blog , Cringy Teenage Years


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