Bookworm problems 101: fictional books toying with our emotions.

Hey guys, busy has been my motto this week since Friday, that's why you haven't seen any updates on the blog. But let's just go down to business and relate with some basic stuff. So lately I've been doing a lot of reminiscing and realized that most of the influences I had came from books. Some bad and some good.
Let me begin with THE BOOK that really shaped my small fragile mind; The Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie. Being a young, curious little girl I won't lie and tell you I was mentally strong enough or held my Faith in high esteem because I didn't. There were times when absurd knowledge did appeal to me a great deal and I filled my head with all sorts. Let me not digress and tell you why Purple Hibiscus was THE BOOK that changed a lot of my perspective especially towards family. Ever read a book and you could feel the originality of emotions oozing out of the words and hitting you hard at each turn? That's what that book was for me. Chimamanda had laid so much heavy melancholic emotions in the pages that caused a shift and created an awareness for me as a kid. I grew up analyzing and questioning and noticing latent toxic issues in my immediate environment. But there was a problem I had with it( the book I mean). In making known your problems, it never gave solutions or hacks to help a broken situation. I read all her books and I saw that pattern; making known a problem without recommending life-changing solutions. Then as I got older I realized that maybe she doesn't want to give solutions ( she probably doesn't even have them), maybe she wants to keep people in that cage of knowing societal issues and not knowing how to be helped. So after a while, she wasn't it for me.(although I hear she's made speeches and helped in procuring solutions, but I still feel the pain I felt five years ago when I read her book, which is good but I don't seem to care since I've outgrown all that).

 ... like those who dine well off the plainest dishes, he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths, and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then, too, he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true, told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events.

This was said by a philosopher called Apollonius. He qouted this in reference to Aesop's Fables. The second set of books that also shaped my mindset. This was helpful especially in my preteen period. I just loved the way he used animals to teach a simple lesson such as friendship, being helpful etc. Now, this was what my mum always recommended us to read. I didn't complain at all and it was something me and her seemed to agree on whenever it was time to discuss books we've read.


 Then one of my favorite books, this series helped greatly in my Christianity especially the movies. I started with the movies before the books. And those books were Chronicles of Narnia, which for me is definitely a must read for children. How C.S Lewis was able to mix genres of Traditional Christianity and mythological Greek/Roman themes was just so extra and beautifully dramatic for my budding mind. C.S Lewis was indeed a treasure especially if you had the box sets. The innocence of language and feel of adventure definitely made me interested delving into my Christianity more. Although, growing up now I know all those were mostly fiction! So the five books of The Narnia series were life changing for little me.

I could go on and on about every book I've read but I'll bore you to bits.
Books play a major role on shaping ones intellect, that is why as we grow into adults, the need for personal development books and psychology come into play. I'll talk all about my present influences in the next post. So what are you reading? Is it shaping you up for a better you? Or shaping you up to be a less version of yourself?
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