“But only in their dreams can men be truly free. ‘Twas always thus, and always thus will be” – John Keating, “Dead Poet’s Society”
About Me:
I am a twenty-something female with a dizzying range of interests from books, music, movies, tv, art, travel, photography, etc. I love reading and writing hence the creation of this blog. I just very recently quit my job to pursue a different path in my life. I liked my previous job but it was something that I knew how to do but didn’t feel any passion for. In short, I wasn’t 100% happy. I quit because I wanted to do pursue something that I have always wanted as a child: to write. I may or may not be successful in this endeavor but I’d like to know that I tried.
I’ve been writing on WordPress for a couple of years now. I’ve had one or two blogs that I have deleted (well, I think one is still active but I forgot the password so its good as gone). I have since regretted the decision to delete and forget the password to those blogs.
The movie Dead Poet’s Society greatly influenced me when I was in high school. It introduced me to great writers. It made me love the classics. I loved the idea of Carpe Diem. I found the monologue by John Keating (Robin Williams) about why we read and write poetry to be very inspiring:
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, “O me! O life!… of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless… of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?” Answer. That you are here – that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?
I also embedded the video here:
That movie also introduced me to a very popular passage from Henry David Thoreau‘s Walden. It used to be my life’s mantra and was on my notebooks in high school.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
Furthermore, I am always inspired whenever I get to read the Holstee Manifesto:
Holstee Manifesto
About this blog:
I created this blog to write about the books that I have read. I also created it with the intention for me to write everyday through the Weekly Memes that I am participating in. I also found it a fun way of discovering authors I’ve never heard of before and reading about books that I have never read before.
Personal thoughts and other interests:
As I’ve mentioned above, I have a varied range of interests but I solely wanted this blog to be concentrated on the books that I have read. To satisfy that other need, I used my other blog on Blogger to fulfill that. Why Blogger and not WordPress? Well, I’ve been on blogger quite a while as well and I thought it would be a waste if I didn’t use it. 
