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untitled by Film Fancier on Flickr.
4dele
untitled by Film Fancier on Flickr.
So I think that calls for a Harry Potter re-read. I re-read them all every summer when I’m starting to get really bored. And this time I can read 1-5 with my American editions and look at all the pretty chapter illustrations.
EDIT: Deathly Hallows is my favourite!
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Read the things people think you shouldn’t, prove you have an open mind.
"Matilda said, ‘Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable…’"
— Roald Dahl, Matilda
"Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."
— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
I’ve read 18 of these, but a lot of them I read while I was 21, not before.
"Books. People never really stop loving books. Fifty-first century. By now you’ve got holovids, direct-to-brain downloads, fiction mist. But you need the smell. The smell of books, Donna. Deep breath!"
— The Doctor, Doctor Who
blindinthesun asked
John green's style is unbearably teenaged and just not literarily pleasing. It actually bothers me even more that teenage girls think that they're reading real literature when reading those books. So why do you enjoy his books?
I don’t know, I think the style is supposed to be teenaged because all of the protagonists in his books are teens. All of his books have interesting premises and there are various ways to look at the different symbols and metaphors in each of his books. I also like the perspective observations about life the characters make. All in all, I really enjoy all of John Green’s novels, but you can read the reviews here. Beware that my review for LFA is my very first review and isn’t good.