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So… I’m going to start book reviews again~

I mean, over the past months I haven’t been doing them because I was too lazy I had writing classes. I first had TianMu to focus on expository writing (that sucked). Wait no, I had SpiderSmart before that, for expository mostly. It absolutely sucked. now I’m doing WC 101 to focus on all kinds of writing. It’s the fifth class tomorrow (or something like that) and we’re doing poetry. It’s even worse than expository, I swear. Next on the agenda we have narratives (oh great, we just finished that in school) and then expository again (and we’re doing that in school right now).

Yeah, I liked TianMu better.

So after I finish WC 101 (which seems like an eternity), I’ll probably start doing book reviews again. Another reason (why does this sound like argumentative writing… not like I’ve done any of that, except in TianMu and SpiderSmart a bit) I’m going to start book reviews again is cause I’m reading LoTR right now and yep, I’m obsessed with it again.

Obsessions. Again.

I can barely even count my obsessions on my fingers. There was Frozen at about three, then I’m pretty sure there was a long Jay Chou phrase from six to eight or something, and there was this one part around seven where I kept listening to one of Eason Chen’s songs on repeat, and then it was Lay (oh god, my friends hated me for that), and then it was BLACKPINK and ITZY (K-pop became too messy and too crazy for me… besides, my parents and my sister hated it), and then it was/is a mess of cdramas (which is still going on <3 like Nirvana in Fire 琅琊榜 and Hikaru No Go 棋魂 and I want to watch so many more). Now it’s LoTR. Oh, and I forgot to mention the books. Oh god. So as far as I can remember I was obsessed with a lot of picture books when I was two or whatnot. Then in kindergarten I read Ramona Quimbly. That wasn’t much of an obsession but my first series, I think (it’s kinda hard to obsess over one book). Then in first grade, I think, I started reading Warriors with my dad (in Chinese, for educational purposes, which proved to be annoying once I started chatting to my friends about it cause I couldn’t figure out who was who). I’m not sure if that was an obsession yet, but I definitely loved it. In second grade I read Harry Potter. I’m pretty sure that was an obsession, only I couldn’t quite understand some parts at that point (I mean, I could understand what was going on and the plot and the system and everything, but I didn’t understand things like why Harry didn’t die after Voldy killed him, and the conversation Harry had with Dumbledore at the end). Next it was Percy Jackson, as well as Heroes of Olympus, around third grade or so. I don’t think I really ever obsessed over that, but it was really close. I mean, I always obsess over books for at least one day after I read them (like Tuesdays with Morrie, I remember thinking, “THIS IS MY FAVORITE BOOK EVER” when I read it). I didn’t read any other Rick Riordan books though, he just wrote too many. Way too many. Then in around fifth grade–oh, here goes–I read the first book out of the four books of The Legend of the Condor Heroes (射雕英雄传). Now I can remember that very clearly, because it was right in between the Lay stage and the BLACKPINK stage, and a bit overlapping of both. It was a really long phrase. Part of that is because it’s not JUST TLoTCH, there’s also a bunch of other series written by the same author (some overlap with each other), and I’m way too lazy to write them all out and also too lazy to figure out their English names, so in Chinese they are: 神雕侠侣 (4 books)，倚天屠龙记 (4 books)，笑傲江湖 (4 books)，天龙八部 (5 books)，侠客行 (2 books). Added onto 射雕英雄传’s 4 books, that’s 4*4+5+2 = 23 books that I read. I didn’t even realize that… Jin Yong (the author) wrote even more books that I want to read, but of course my mom won’t let me. I own all of those 23 books. It’s amazing. I’m, even now, still half-obsessed over it (I also watched the epic scenes on the cdramas for those books). The characters though… I literally like, obsessed over them so much. Normally, I don’t like, obsess over the main characters, because they’re too main. They already have enough backstory and all. I choose unimportant-ish characters and give them a story in my mind. 丘处机，黄药师，朱聪，(all from 射雕英雄传), 朱子柳，杨逍… I don’t have a favorite for 笑傲江湖 or 天龙八部 or 侠客行 though. I didn’t read those too many times compared to, let’s say, 射雕英雄传, cause I read that at least 5 times. I mean, those two are like, even BETTER than 射雕英雄传, but by that time I didn’t have much time to read and re-read them. And 侠客行 is too short. After Jin Yong, I had a period of sudden, random, and extreme Harry Potter obsession. I re-read the series. That was at about the end of fifth grade or in the summer. And in winter break of 2021-2022, I watched all the movies. Actually, I had been watching them bit by bit since around third grade, but I only finished all of them in winter break this year. So now it’s LoTR.

WHY DID I JUST WRITE ALL OF THAT WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME

That was extremely pointless.

But I’m always extremely pointless.

And I’m too talkative.

Though I’m introverted.

Does that even make any sense?

I’m not making sense.

Yeah, sounds like something I would do.

So anyway, I’m trying to remember what I was saying in the beginning. Oh, yeah, book reviews. So yeah, I’m really wanting to review LoTR because I actually have stuff to say about it, rather than always saying, “I liked the plot” every single time. (Though I did like the plot on every single book that I said that.)

My book reviews are trash. At least they’re better than my first few ones in third grade, which were basically book reports until my mom and my teacher finally pointed it out in fourth or fifth grade.

Oh, last thing–even though I probably will be doing book reviews again after I finish LoTR and after WC 101 ends in forever, I might not continue blogging because, I’m miserable at it, if you cared to read through my entire paragraph on my history of obsessions above.