Dear Library,
WHY DO YOU NOT HAVE THE BOOKS I WANT?! We seem to have a love-hate relationship. We get along when you have the books I am dying to read, yet most of the time, you seem to have NO SELECTION. Why don't you get the new releases? Do you realize how much it sucks when I see peoples' videos on youtube of that new release from their Libraries and then you are just like "lol nope. not going to have that. ever. sucks for you."
WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME?
Monday, July 16, 2012
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Speaking Eloquently
You've Got Mail. This is by far one of my favorite movies, I mean you've got Nora Ephron, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, and a bookstore involved what can go wrong? While this flick is down right charming, it helped me notice something that has been bothering me for a while. In this movie, the two main characters converse over email with the audience hearing their narration of it, I can't help but hear how eloquent they sound while typing and how it irks me that people don't do that today.
John Green is someone who does this as well. I adore all of his novels and one of the main reasons is that he has smart characters in his books. They all seem to have such profound thoughts that teenagers don't tend to have. Why is it that how they speak is more appealing to all yet no one tries to speak that way? Why is it that a profound thought is something that seems to be once in a blue moon in real life yet in books and movies and television shows, the characters always speak the right things and have the right way to say them. There is no confusion over what they mean but everything is perceived perfectly. Why is it that literature and film and whatnot now seems less realistic even though the creators of it are trying to make it more realistic.
At the same time I feel as though I have fallen under this, I typically do not speak like this in normal life, but being behind my laptop with a cup of apple cinnamon tea somehow makes the words flow out of me and have me making profound revelations. Perhaps I have being doing this too much and should go engage in other things that are considered "the teenage norm". What even is the norm? Does anyone know? Or is this something supposed to be agreed on by my generation?
I think I'll just return to my book of Bradbury short stories and pretend I'm much more mature and eloquent than I actually am.
John Green is someone who does this as well. I adore all of his novels and one of the main reasons is that he has smart characters in his books. They all seem to have such profound thoughts that teenagers don't tend to have. Why is it that how they speak is more appealing to all yet no one tries to speak that way? Why is it that a profound thought is something that seems to be once in a blue moon in real life yet in books and movies and television shows, the characters always speak the right things and have the right way to say them. There is no confusion over what they mean but everything is perceived perfectly. Why is it that literature and film and whatnot now seems less realistic even though the creators of it are trying to make it more realistic.
At the same time I feel as though I have fallen under this, I typically do not speak like this in normal life, but being behind my laptop with a cup of apple cinnamon tea somehow makes the words flow out of me and have me making profound revelations. Perhaps I have being doing this too much and should go engage in other things that are considered "the teenage norm". What even is the norm? Does anyone know? Or is this something supposed to be agreed on by my generation?
I think I'll just return to my book of Bradbury short stories and pretend I'm much more mature and eloquent than I actually am.
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