Books can help forge new friendships! They give ppl things to talk about and have in common, and since there's such a wide variety of them, it's easy to strike up conversations about books!

Hmm... maybe it's the "write what you know" thing? And since writers probably know about writing... writing might also be used for character development and getting to know a character too, though, I think

Interesting how books can predict things and history repeats itself.... maybe there's some sort of algorithm for telling the future based on the past!

I love C.S. Lewis's emphasises! Were those just something at his time or a unique style? For example, in the lion the witch, Edmund (arghhhh sooo aggravatingggg but I'd have probably done the same but still, judgment) says "of course it would be raining," and I would've emphasized the course, so it'd be "Of course it would be raining!", but C.S. Lewis does "Of course it would be raining!" which just sounds so much better and quainter and perfect and... wait, did I just do it again? Ughhh

Have you guys ever had that thing happen to you where you read a book and start talking/thinking in the style of the characters/narrator/author? It happens to me all the time! Most prominently after I read the Narnia books or the Anne of Green Gables books. They just have such personable and unique and absolutely perfect voices that I simply have to adopt them, if not rather involuntary (for while I'm glad to be talking like amazing authors and characters, I often find myself repeating the same words over and over again), and it's quite hard for me to get out of the voices after. The last time I read Narnia it took me over a week to stop saying things like "quaint" and "queer" and "rather" and such. And yet I keep coming back as it's such a great book series! Though with it's faults, which I suppose I can excuse as they were probably not even faults and just facts in the book's time (which I don't even know anyways), except for all that repetition that I never quite seemed to catch before (what with that wardrobe door and all)! SPOILER: I think Narnia may be the cruelest kind of magical world, though, what with all those poor children who know such magic exists and yet can never visit, being too old, though it is none their fault, and can only live with their memories of the place knowing exactly how to get there and what wonderful things reside there but being denied to go visit their friends as people they know come back with fantastical stories (as they surely must), especially Peter and Susan, as Edmund and Lucy, the one who was the first in the strage place and the last of the four to go there, came young and first but they came later and older than both and I think that that is hardly fair (but who's to say what's fair or not, and life itself is "hardly fair" anyways). We're lucky we can visit as many times as we want if only in books, for we can live out each moment as long and often as we'd like and still get half or more the experience! With almost none of the actual danger. And more detail and understanding! A mighty good deal if you ask me (while still believing fully that worlds like this exist, as they must)! END OF SPOILER

What's cool about Narnia is that each time you visit, a layer gets revealed, a perceptual shift as you grow and learn and experience. A new visit in the same situations each time, and just, if not more, enjoyable! Narnia is absolutely YESSS!!

Wow, count how many times I said "what with" in just those few paragraphs... and "as" and "such" and... Feiya said OZGKH. What a splendid bit of nonsense! Now she says GOOBC!

OMG, a little TOO oblivous... *eye roll*