Lovely. Quite lovely. I think I will enjoy this. A place where I can talk about books and blog...I think I just found a little piece of heaven. No one's going to yell at me here, right? This is my first post so I don't have much to say. Hooray? This is going to be great? I bet it will be. No doubt about that.
I fell in love with literature through fantasy. Every night I would read C.S. Lewis aloud in till my sister would scream at me to turn off the lights. Narnia was my other home, a beautiful, faraway home I'm still hoping to fall into one day. Then in sixth grade, I found a book about a magical school called Hogwarts. My mother didn't like me reading something about witches and wizards and wands so I hid it from her. (Sorry, Mumsy.) Then I found out about YA paranormal romances. I didn't fall head-over-heels in love with them, but their ideas were amazing. If I could fall in love with a superhero/vampire/werewolf/hot guy with abs my life was set.
Then I hit high school. Life wasn't fairy dust and multi-colored sprinkles. It was hard, sometimes heart-breaking. I was geeky with long arms and legs, and glasses. And awkward triangle bangs. You might not know what I'm talking about, but it was bad. Let's remember that I really, really liked Harry Potter. Just think about that for a minute. Did you get a good idea of what I looked like? Anyway, people could be mean so I buried my head in book. (I also started listening to music, but that's a different story and maybe a different post.) I discovered that there are people named Alex Flinn, Laurie Halse Anderson, Lauren Oliver, Jerry Spinelli, Jon (I will hate myself if that's not the right name.) Green, and they knew what I was going through. They created characters that were just like me.
Contemporary fiction was my new best friend. To know that there is someone out there that knows exactly how I'm feeling, is wonderful. Some of my favorites include Wintergirls, Speak, Twisted, Before I Fall... There are countless others.
Somewhere between Alex Flinn and Laurie Halse Anderson I got contacts, became my sister's make-up doll, and started wearing dresses. Auditioned for my school's spring musical, got a lead. Life got better, but I never stopped reading. I still like to know about the lives of characters, of far-off worlds.
I want to be a writer, an actress, a singer. I want so many things in this world and books have shown me that I can get whatever I want because anything, ANYTHING, is possible.
