I am a proud nerd. I really into books and reading in general.
I consume everything from a child's fairytale, novel, documentary, even history books. also comics, like romance with a high school-er as the main character, you know, like any typical japanese manga. but i also like bad ass manga, like twins, monster, etc.
Well basically i read almost anything. but i'm avoiding books about economy and such. if it's in newspaper i probably read it, but as for a book. no way.
I also never read about self-help or motivational books, i don't know why but i hate those kind of books. You know Mario Teguh? he's an author and a motivational speaker. boy, how i hate him. i don't mind listening to a very positive person. but this guy is unrealistic. and when i don't like something, i really shut them out of my mind. so there is no way i would read his book.
i consider books as my guidelines. you can learn a lot of things from them. but in this era where books turned digital and i can choose of what i want to know, i prefer the easier ones. google.
i have tendencies to googled everything i'm curious at. although wikipedia is often not a very reliable source, but it gave me basic information about everything.
What i read is actually defined of who am i as a person. of what i want, what i'm searching for in life. i really into history, arts, archeological, architecture stuffs, and you can found me browsing about them in the internet in my free times. ok, geek much? ha, i kinda don't care.
This post is supposedly tells you about an author or book that make a change in my life, something that i have read over and over and learn something from it. I have several favorite authors and books. As for my current obsession post with this theme, i'll choose one author whom, i think can really describe of what i feel with her words, her name is Cecelia Ahern. Although it's not that current, since i have been obsessing over her books these last couple years, i still think she's suit the best for this post.
She's a famous author by now, several of her books have made into movies, like PS I love you for example, and she's the script writer for tv series, Samantha Who.
there are so many of her words that left deep impression in me, that i can relate too. i found her books are somewhat magical. especially because i always think ireland is a magical country with all the castles, weather and the people. (her stories mostly based in Ireland)
I have wrote one of her lines here in my blog, the one that i can relate to with my condition at that moment. and i'd like to share more of her lines that left impression in me..
"Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive."
"Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars"
"...God leads you to it and takes you through it."
"We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found."
"Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time."
"Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter."
"sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.""
"Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem"
"She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted."
"Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that."
"Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention."
"Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing."
"There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less"
Her words are magic, and a little bit of faith in those wouldn't hurt i guess.
Regards,
Rani
"I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives." - Cecilia Ahern
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