BOOK TIME~ 《未完成的邂逅》 BY 林詠琛

I've been trying to pick up some good reading habits again since I haven't been reading alot lately. Not to say that I have really good reading habits in the past but I definitely read more books when I was in secondary school. Haven't been continuing with the "silent reading" habit ever since I entered poly and I thought its really bad.

I actually do enjoy reading reading when I was younger and I love to go to the library near my house and soak up the aroma of shelves and shelves of books, or even picking up a book in the library and flip through the yellowing pages, absorbing the "energy" from it. Its this comfy and fuzzy feeling that surrounds old books in the library that satisfies me. It is where I feel immense silence and peace from. The library is like a personal space when i can just look out for good books that interest me and it calms me from within. I don't think I have a very deep connection with books but I do enjoy reading when I have the time and the short trips to the library refreshes me and brings back inner peace when life gets too hectic at times. (I don't mean some chim chim inner peace here but just the literal meaning, if I even make sense haha) 

Recently i've been to the library a few times but failed to find any book that interest me. (I can spend hours in the library just finding books but yet leave empty handed at the end of the day) However, I found a book yesterday and its called : 《未完成的邂逅》 by 林詠琛. I thought it is a very simple read that I can get myself started with reading all over again. I didn't want to start with something very wordy and end up reading only half of it. 

Okay so 《未完成的邂逅》 is a book with a few short stories inside, which totally explains why I chose this book cos I love short stories. Some of it includes : 第三者 (the third party)，0.1秒奔向你 (towards you in 0.1 second)，魔性之女 (the female of fairy-hood)，动画恋人 (animation lover)，制造回忆 (creating memories)，米雪儿 (snow grains?? o.o)，捉迷藏 (hide and seek)，音乐椅 (musical chair)，未完成的邂逅 (incomplete meeting)。(its funny how some of the translated meaning turned out to be but oh well~ its kind of fun to include it in haha)

So from the titles it already showed that 《未完成的邂逅》 is purely on romance. (as usual) I am never the type of person that would read books on mystery or violence. I'm a pure romance kind of person and the only genre of books you'll find with me is probably romance and nothing but romance. Not that I am particularly against the other book genres but I guess it just had to do with me being extremely sentimental. Its this part of me that i've grown with and I doubt its possible to change that part of me. Even the reason behind me reading the twilight series is also cos of the romance part between edward cullen and bella swan. So now you know. Haha.

I've currently only finished reading 第三者 (the third party), the very first short story of that book and I thought I really liked it. Simply put, its about this girl being separated from her other half due to the presence of a third party and after some time, this ex couple met again but their connection can never be the same as before anymore cos the boy is married with that "third party" but yet they are still in love. And so this girl became the third party now.

Anw its just this triangle thinggy that you see often but there was a sentence from this story that I liked and left an impression in me. "某些人的爱情，只能以扭曲的形态存活。" (some emotions can only exist in distortion) and I just find it so sad with the word "distortion". Shouldn't it exist in a most simple and pleasant way possible? It is a gift given to us and we are blessed with it but why should it exist distorted? It should be a beautiful thing. That was my opinion and some of my thoughts when I was reading it on the super long bus trip to toa payoh yesterday. 

And so I wanted to start a reading regime that I can follow at my own time and own target, take my time to read and understand the content of the book. I may not have to reach the book at a very deep level cos there isn't any right or wrong when it comes to reading. It just serves as a chance for me to think about the lessons that we may learn from the books that we read and that the fact that books can give us a whole lot of fortune not in the form of money. Now that I think of it, I can say that other than romance, I do like books that I can walk away with an opinion or a lesson learned. It brings yourself to greater levels when you think more.

Well, of course, this is what I think and I like to put my thoughts and feelings into words where I may not have the ability to express verbally. :)

 

Reading is my escape from reality.

So I guess that's pretty much it! Cheers! :)