Reading and Writing

I have this theory that no one could really keep all the knowledge and inputs without putting out some outputs in some ways which then means that if you read a lot of books, there will come a time when you somehow have to write them out in your own ways.

This year of 2013 has been a fruitful year in the Tiffany's Literature Land. I have been reading tons of books written by a lot of other authors and that makes me feel happy and grateful. I have only been reading and re-reading Harry Potter series for a while now and also the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan. And in 2012, the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins is added to the collection. But in 2013, I have been introduced and recommended to a wide range of books and genres, the likes of The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green ( and his 3 other books) and of course, the rather new Mortal Instrument series( 6 books in total) and Infernal Devices series( 3 books) by Cassandra Clare.

One thing about how amazing it is to be able to read new books rather than the obvious reason of having new stories and fictions to read, is to have a taste and insight to how different every author writes and how the writing style reflects to their individual lifestyles. This is maybe not very obvious or valuable to a regular reader, but to any aspiring writer out there, it is golden, in my opinion anyways.

I just love to observe and analyse how everyone writes and how the styles give different auras to different stories, it is an amazing thing to do actually. It is definitely obvious that authors in the modern era write differently from authors like Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and so on. It leads me to wonder whether I have my own unique style of writing too and how my writing style compare to other people's.

After reading different kinds of books by different authors, I come to realise that the bottom line of writing any book is the existence of knowledge and real-life experience and not just the writing styles and the fantastic usage of words and twist of sentences. Of course, this makes me wonder again whether I have enough experience to write the stuffs I think I want and could write. Right now, I still think I'm lack of it though. But young people could be successful authors too right ? As my mum said, 'Dont ever question what you write,'. That's an awesome advice because I always question what I wrote and then tried to change them and then ended up with nothing which makes me sad always.

So now what I'm trying to do is to write whatever that comes to mind and not question it and go with the inspiration, the flow and my gut feeling. I do think it will work out well.

-Wrote all this while laying on my stomach on the bed, feels good-

While Reading The Fault in Our Stars...

So I have read 4 chapters of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and I must say I love it. I genuinely like the way Mr Green wrote, his style and word usage and everything. The storyline is quite fast-paced and direct but it is just perfectly planned out and so it is immensely interesting. (And I think there is a thing to authors’ names. I think that names that are easily said, written and remembered are so much more cooler than those that are not.) And this is the first book I read that got me some insights about cancer. And also, cancer and young love. I don’t really mind the foul languages.

So as I’m reading, I start thinking about how it would be if some guy gave me his book to read and with his phone number written at the title page. It must be extraordinary to start a courtship like that, the nerdfighteria’s style! Then I remembered I have once given a book to read by a guy whom I liked as well and I remembered feeling rather lovey-dovey at that moment. But turned out, it ended with nothing.

And as I’m reading the lines where Augustus Waters asking Hazel Grace rather aggressively about when could he see her again, I thought to myself how familiar that situation is. And then I wondered whether it is how guys hint that they are pursuing you. I smiled at how Hazel responses to those advances because that seems to be similar to how I think I did it, but not quite the exact same, but you get my point.

One thing that made me feel that I’m not wrong or weird or alone in doing it is that Hazel didn’t really reject those advances but being coy and flirtingly suggest how Augustus and her should meet again and somehow let Augustus knows she’s still interested. That seems like what I did, although you know, in different situations. I guess I have flirted around the situation of school work? But I don’t think what I did account to flirt. But generally, having something to say to someone? And I have been getting that kind of flirt in return.

And moving on to Hazel and Augustus’s casual meet-up or date, I just think it’s so awesome. The thing to emphasise here is casual but with a hint or touch of romantic interest. These kinds of dates are the best, in my opinion. And this got me thinking again. I did have this kind of dates right? But more casual than this though. But yeah, definitely, but with less romantic aura, but those auras are most certainly presented.

Then comes the time I think to myself that it must be so nice and amazing to share a book which you love to a person you like, like how Augustus and Hazel did it. It must be so touching to be able to share opinions about the books with each other. Also, they unintentionally have a special word to themselves, which I find it so cool and fun and meaningful in many ways. And the fact that Augustus unshamefully and wittily let Hazel know he likes her is just flawless and that kind of reminded me those moments I had, which of course, I hope are real and genuine, right from the heart.

Now I haven’t finish the book and so I don’t really know how Hazel and Augustus’s story will end but I hope for the best! ( And I think this is my first modern young adult book that revolve kind of heavily around the subject of love. )

~ A book lover courtship~