After re-reading my blog posts, I’ve realized I can be a very angry person. An angry opinionated person, about things that really shouldn’t matter to me. I’m not an English major, as is also quite evident by my blog posts. I’m a biology major, which is kind of noticeable in my posts if you look for it. Though I don’t back up lots of statements with quotes (mostly because I write what I can remember, which is rarely specific quotes, but the ideas behind them), I do descriptively back up my comparisons, sometimes using videos. And as a person of SCIENCE, I don’t like saying things without them having some basis in fact. Even if that fact is heavily biased by my own angry opinions. I go into what books mean and should mean to people, and discuss the stories in broad ways, not so much focused dissections of specific characters/events.
But books DO matter to me, and I think they should matter to more people. Something I focus on in my blog posts is that its not just reading that is important. The quality of the content matters a great deal. I mention a couple bad books, like the twilight series and “Blood and Chocolate”, some of which I’ve read on purpose, because I feel if I don’t read them and still criticize them, my argument is flawed from the beginning. Others, like Harry Potter, because they caught me when I was young and didn’t know better. And hey, there are worse books out there. And at least the series is kinda fun.
The blog posts also focus on relating subjects from the books to personal experiences. All of which seem to again be angry/bitter, but it’s all still very personal. Its similar to the way I write notes in class, which are usually covered in doodles and silly liner notes which mean something to me personally, but would probably be meaningless to anyone else in the class. Or on earth.
