Salam berhujung minggu semua. Jarang saya menulis pada hujung minggu ni, biasanya banyak komitmen saya masa hujung minggu tapi Alhamdulillah hari ni saya ada kelapangan. Rozila pergi ke majlis perkahwinan kawan dia di Kuantan dan Along pulak sibuk keluar beli barang dengan Kak Hada jadi saya keseorangan je di rumah. Pagi-pagi ni saya merajinkan diri mengemas rumah tapi terbantut sebab tak ada air, buat kerja separuh jalan je la saya hari ni. Harap cepat la ada air balik, boleh la saya sambung nak basuh dapur pulak. Rajin tak saya, huhu boleh la tolong promote buat calon menantu ek. (padahal jarang bebeno nak buat housekeeping nih).
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| Oh buku, saya sebenarnya ada banyak lagi buku yang tak sempat dibaca |
Saya sebenarnya nak kongsi quotes menarik (emm tak tahu la boleh panggil quotes ke apa sebab agak panjang ayat dia) yang saya baca kat Goodreads. Kalau korang tak tahu apa tu Goodreads, ia adalah media sosial macam Facebook gak tapi dia fokus untuk buku. Boleh baca review buku atau buat review buku, rating buku, artikel pasal penulis buku dan macam-macam lagi la. Korang boleh jugak keep track buku yang korang dah baca dan yang paling saya suka portal ni tolong bagi cadangan buku apa yang boleh kita baca berdasarkan senarai buku kita jadi boleh la kita jumpa buku baru yang sesuai dengan cita rasa kita. Bagus untuk orang yang tak tahu nak cari bahan bacaan baru tapi tak ada idea nak baca buku apa. Ehh promo Goodreads lak. Kat bawah ni quote yang menarik tu, huhu harap korang suka gak.
“You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes.” - Rosemarie Urquico
Macam nak promote diri sendiri je ek, hehe tapi saya bukan la sama macam orang yang dia ceritakan tu. Buku-buku yang dia tulis kat atas tu kebanyakkannya saya tak baca lagi tapi selalu dengar orang sebut dan kalau ada kesempatan saya ingat nak baca juga. Bila tengok senarai buku orang lain dan buku-buku yang ada dalam Goodreads tu saya rasa macam rugi je saya tak didedahkan dengan buku-buku ni dari kecik. Mak ayah saya dulu tak suka sangat anak-anak dia membaca buku-buku bukan buku sekolah jadi kitaorang kurang pendedahan sangat. Nasib baik la saya dan adik-beradik agak giler membaca, suka sangat kalau pergi perpustakaan, pinjam buku kat sana je la.
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| Jom cari buku menarik kat sini (^_^) |
Tahun depan saya nak buat azam nak baca sekurang-kurangnya satu buku seminggu dan harapnya saya boleh baca lebih dari 50 buku setahun. Bunyi macam sikit kan tapi bila banyak komitmen satu buku pun susah nak baca tau. Doakan saya dapat penuhi azam buku saya ek.
p/s: Kalau korang ada buku menarik nak recommend kat saya amatlah dialu-alukan.
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