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 Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 4:19 pm
Post your book confessions here!
Mine:
It sounds kind of silly, but I swear it's true. Harry Potter means so much to me. It changed my life and made me who I am today. I've learned how to be brave, how to stand up for what I believe in, how to speak out, how to love, how to fight, how to give second chances, how to see past the surface of things, how to hope, and how to dream. It's taught me more than anything or anyone ever could. It's not just a book series or a movie franchise. It's a symbol for a new world, a world where everyone is accepted for who they are and a world where anyone can change and be what they want to be. I will be loyal to it, always love it, and continue to read it until the day I die.
If you haven't seen this, please watch it. It's important that you do. You'll be able to see what I'm trying to tell you and understand why it means so much... why it's helped so many people. If it wasn't for Harry Potter, I'd still be a quiet, frightened girl who liked to hide from everyone and never spoke a word...
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Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 4:45 am
There are quite a few books that meant a lot to me (and still do). I wasn't into reading as much until I started with the Harry Potter series, in Afrikaans as my mother didn't give me another choice, shortly after my parent's divorce. They kept my mind from wandering to depressing corners and, yet, helped me to deal with the suppressed emotions instead of disregarding them as nonexistent.
The second book I'll be mentioning, Twee vir 'n Stuiwer, helped me to see the world in an array of colours that weren't there before. This is, by far, my favourite Afrikaans book (along with Blinde Sambok, Vaseline'tjie and Die Kwart Voor Sewe Lelie).
Snowflake is also very special to me, perhaps the one to top them all. It was my first "grown-up" book and I've read it around four times - five as of late. It helped me prepare, emotionally, for the new school in 2003 (before that, I was in a private primary school and the Afrikaans classes were so small that they had to combine the grades in one classroom with one teacher). It was a public school with lots of idiot teachers and even more stupid students.
Sherlock Holmes found me. lol I'm still busy reading it, but ever since I started reading his adventures, I've been more confident in my on skin and started a vigorous quest for knowledge.
Oh, and Eragon got me to start thinking of writing as a career. 
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