I am pleased to announce that I have progressed from I-hate-life mode to life-sucks-but-so-what-i-knew-that-and-i've-got-no-choice-anyway mode. (yes it's a tad long)
anyway.

I'm in high spirits cos guess what. WE HAVE NO HOMEWORK DUE TOMORROW. its amazing. i know. I've been reading a few books this weekend. It really feels great to get engrossed in a book. I haven't had the time or energy to do so lately. Perhaps discovering good books contributed to my lifting of spirits. I have read 3 books in 3 days so far. yay me.

One good one is Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac. Its about a girl who suffers partial memory loss after she falls down a flight of stairs. It actually made me really disoriented. The girl's confused and all and seems stuck in some time warp and that feeling actually managed to affect me. She actually forgot everything since she was twelve. (She's eighteen by the way). These forgotten stuff include things like her parent's divorce, her best friend, her boyfriend, French, everything and everyone in her school etc. pretty bad. Well its really interesting and rather amusing and touching. And its a love story but not the sappy cliched chick flick/romance kind.

I think what's important about a book is the ending and the impression it leaves. I love those endings which are kind of undefined. With the feeling of continuation. It makes the characters seem more real and less happy-ever-after fairytale cut-outs. Of course, abrupt endings with loose ends are a total spoiler. Leaving too much to the reader's imagination is never too good, especially when it seems like you're just trying to end the story quickly. I used to like happy-ever-after chick lit endings but they all seem like cookie cut-outs after you read more chick lit. It gets annoyingly predictable and doesn't give you the happy feeling anymore. And then you have those tragedies. The ones that include people dying and breaking up and might result in me crying. I can't say I'm a big fan (same goes for shows like sappy Korean dramas) but really well-written ones can be very poignant. I think its could well be the perfect mix if you balance up the tragedy with a little happy ending. Eg. The Pact by Jodi Picoult

Okay I think I've talked enough about books and thanks for surviving and lasting all the way till here (: