Let the rumpus start…in heaven. Rest in peace, Maurice Sendak. :(
“You’re weird,” she whispers. Her lips have long since exorcized the ghosts of smiles that frequently flit there, but a telltale spark in her eyes betrays her amusement.
“You too,” he replies, his breath catching.
And in that moment, they both realize they knew each other even before they crossed paths.
“I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
-Augustus Waters (The Fault in Our Stars by John Green)
Ghost of the Past. I started drawing on my sketchbook journal last night! My first entry is not particularly cheerful. When insomnia decides to visit me at night, this little ghost drifts from the middle of nowhere and haunts me till the wee small hours of the morning. Just sometimes, though. On good days, Mr. Pillows and Sheets will transport me straight to Dreamland once I hit them.
I’ll feature at least one doodle from my sketchbook journal every week. :) Not here, though (I want this tumblr to be lit-related as much as possible). Anyone else on blogspot? I’d love to connect with you there. Just drop me a line!
My blogspot’s at Cinderella in Combat Boots.
Ever have this feeling that you are not the one who found your book, but it’s the book that found you? Weird, but I sometimes feel that way, especially if I have no specific title in mind when I enter a bookstore. I’ll just walk around, examine the shelves, stop, and then there’s a certain book that will turn under my nose. I’ll pick it up, read the blurb at back, and if it strikes a chord with me, it’ll go straight to the cashier. Most of the time, books I don’t intend to buy turn out to be the best.
I don’t know if there’s such a thing as serendipity when it comes to finding books, but the treasures I found that way always give me something that my mind and my heart are starving for the moment before I find them. :D
Confession: I’m a book hoarder. Even if I have a to-read tower wobbling in the corner of the room and a stack of un-reads on my study table, I can’t control myself—I’ll still buy more. The tug of bookstores is just irresistible, and it’s almost a rarity to find my bag sans a new novel and my purse still full at the end of the day.
My first solution is to leave excess money at home whenever I’m going out, so as not to further ruin my already messy budget plan. Sometimes I cut my allowance so I won’t be tempted to purchase brand new books. Then all of a sudden I’ll feel the insistent magnetism of the nearest secondhand bookshops, full of titles cheap enough not take a huge chunk of the meager money I allowed myself to have for a day. I’ll hear a wicked little voice saying something like, “Look, look, book sale! What’s another twenty pesos off your pocket? Who knows, you might find that rare book you’ve been hunting for quite a while now!” Poof! I’m back to square one. Even if I don’t find that rare book, I’ll still be marching out the shop with a new novel in my hand. I just can’t help it. It’s like a sickness or an addiction or something. LOL.
The Hunger Games trailer. There are a few times in my life when I wanted to use a time machine so I could jump into a particular period in the past or in the future to see or do something. But I can’t remember—in all the years of my bookworm-infested and fangirlism-dominated life—how badly I felt the want need to use one for real—not just wishful thinking—except after watching the official full trailer of The Hunger Games. No kidding! I wanted to twist the machine’s dial to March 23, 2012 and be transported into a moviehouse, all comfy with warm buttered popcorn and Kleenex on my lap (I’ll need it) while my favorite dystopian book comes to life onscreen. Ooh, if only such a thing really exists! I’m all tears and goosebumps after my first play of the video…and also on the second, on the third, on the fourth…
Now you know what I’m excited about? The official soundtrack. :)
