Monday, January 01, 2007
♥ Monday, January 01, 2007
I'm just sitting around here waiting for inspiration to come and fill my seemingly very empty brain.
I don't know why i want to write, either. maybe it's because it's the new year, or maybe because i finished reading sarah dessen's dreamland last night. and im telling you, her books always, always make me cry.
there's always this part in her books where i'll be reading probly at around three in the morning, and i'll be alone, and the tears will just start flowing, whether it's wallowing in the pity for the character ( Macy, Caitlin, Halley, Haven ) or finding some things similar to my life, which meant in my own self pity.
i picked up this book accidentally. i was looking for her 'just listen' bestseller on this really messy young adults' fiction shelf of borders and there was this book called dreamland and i just picked it out from the shelf, unaware of the author's name staring at me. i picked another couple of books, dessen's 'how to deal' and stephenie something's twilight which jess tan obviously praised to the heavens in front of me and told me i have to read it. i've read 'how to deal' before, borrowed from the library, which i reread over and over and over and over again, until i realised that i was overdue by some months. it was so good, i just felt like buying it altogether. but this book. dreamland. i went to look for the author's name and found it imprinted, quite huge, in caps. the front coverpage was this water, with a small bridge kind of thing, like an empty dock and a lady standing on it and clouds agaisnt the sky. it was all blurred and all, like dreamland. very, like dreamland.
and i went, shit, i am so stupid. see her name in caps seeeeee!
though i didnt find her 'just listen', okay. i'll find it another day. and i couldn't stop reading once i started the first page. i read all evening and almost skipped dinner if my mom didnt scream at me to, and read all the way til about three in the morning. i cried at some points, stopped to think at some points, paused for some time, read again, paused to think. but throughout the whole book i didn't, at any point lose any interest in the storyline. because that's what dessen does. her storyline, although it usually portrays the main character as someone inadequate.
shit i have to go out and buy lunch. and blogger conked out on me and erased half of what i typed just now. ):
ARGH
