Reading The Summer before the Dark

"Besides, she was still able to savour moments like this, without pressures of any kind, after the years living inside the timetable of other people's needs. She could still hug to herself the thought: If i don't go to bed until the sun rises it doesn't matter. I needn't get up till midday if i don't choose."

Till this moment i felt the struck of a note in my heart, finally. And i have already read 96 pages of the book of The Summer before the Dark. I am not criticizing the book, i just felt i still need more reading, living, thinking experience and enough proficiency of the English language to absorb literary works like that. Especially fictions about love, which are the easiest to find from the library.

After so many months of wondering, i got back to fictions again. I haven't a better choice. I have to make a decision. And now after days of persuading myself to follow the novel to the end, i finally have come to the willing and automatic decision to finish it.

It reminds me of the situation described by H. At first, the book has to be a good one, and on the other end, i need to be a cloth prone absorbing. Wide-ranged reading might be the only way to literature world, but if i read with a blank mind, if i don't actually learn anything. We are what we learn. Learn, not those we see and hear and forget.

But no matter how much fun those fiction will bring to me in the days to come, i still believe that non-fictions are a greater pull to me. I like to read for knowledge. While with fictions, it was ideas of experience. I see the words, make up some relevant imaginations, and put them in store in case one day i will actually come across a similar occasion and what sensation should that be. That's what i was reading novels for.

Variety is the spice of life, so is it the spice of novels. I don't like those which just tell the simple story of a women having a trip abroad, and all about the flashback of her life and thoughts about her life. Too much description of irrelevant things, however exquisite, will lost its pull if too much goes on. I like Chang'an Luan because it tell a story which goes not straight to the end, but with many details that make sense, and many relevant, witty and well-hidden and subtle thoughts about some current issues, the author's thoughts, and pertinent but low profile advices.