"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must always find time
for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance."
-Confucius
If you want to be taken to another
world, portraying a different character, one you’ve always wanted, day dreaming
won’t be enough. You need descriptive words carefully arranged in a manner
artistically fit for narrative and are figuratively jumping out of the paper to
really feel that you are in another world. A world inspired by life’s experiences
and realities and made more beautiful by imagination.
My love for reading novels
started in second year high school. During break times, I would go to the
library and skim titles of prospective finds. When a title caught my interest,
I would borrow it.
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The novel I most recently read. |
The first novel I read back then
was something about a frightful summer. I just forgot the title and the author.
The plot went on with the main character (a girl) meeting another girl who
pretended to be her cousin whose parents died when they lost their house to a
blaze and who turned out to be a witch (it was found out that she wasn’t
appearing in photographs).
The passion grew more when I read
such famous titles as “Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden and “The Da Vinci
Code” and “Angels and Demons” by controversial author Dan Brown. All of these
have movie adaptations which make them more interesting.
I also sank my intellectual
curiosity on the world phenomenon Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling. I would always
snub it before, thinking that the series was just a nonsense children’s magical
fantasy, but when I read all seven books in second year college, I realized
that the epic tale of Harry Potter was more than just a children’s story book.
Since then, I’ve become a Potterhead. I so love the plot I always imagine
myself as Harry James Potter, cursing death eaters and counterattacking Voldemort’s
Avada Kedavra with Expelliarmus (yeah, I’ve memorized
several spells I read in the books).
Great things happen out of the
ordinary. Harry Potter sprang to life when J.K. Rowling started writing his
story on tissue paper. Making my heart race when the climax comes, reading
novels has always been an entry in my “to do” list when I’m not busy. It always
ignites my imagination and carries me to different worlds I can only dream of.
I will never stop reading. And someday, I will write my own novel and fascinate
other bookworms like me.