The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

read this book, guys
i love it
why?
yes it's a brilliant story
yes it tells of the troubles of someone else, so it takes your mind of yours
but the reason that this book stands out among others (the MANY others i have read)
is because it makes you think
and it has those little sentences that inspir eyou
no matter who you are, no matter what the sentence is, they seem to have a way of inspiring you and mkaing you think
this is why is LOVE markus zusak
because he chooses his words so carefully and adequately
i could only ever drea mabuot being able to do so
you want an example?
yeah i thought so =)

here you are:

page 92
"all of this resulted in at least some form or contentment and would soon be built up to approach the concept of Being Happy."

it just shows how important the Being Happy is. i mean, just by capitalising those words, he puts across the message that it is something important, and something that should be...i dunno respected. like...it's something that should be worked towards, because it's such a great concept.
i dunno, i was just so...lifted up by this sentence, maybe because it seems to me that there ARE people out there who have to work towards Being Happy. seems to me that the world is not some freakishly weird (omg i'm using andy's words..O_O) place where everyone is perfectly happy with everything. or where everyone is pathetically derpessed.

another:

page 93
"She was a girl with a mountain to climb."

and she was damn right determined to do so!
yeah that's my kinda girl
in a way, every single one of us have a mountain to climb. some, if not all, have various mountains to climb. maybe noone else thinks of them like i do, but eveyron has them. think abuot it. every challenge that you face in life, is likea mountain.
and maybe those little challenges are little teeny tiny hills =)
but those big massive challenges that you must face in life (maybe life itself could be counted as a mountain) are those mountains of which i speak.
my biggest moutain at the moment woul dhave to be the IB
i'm going to kill them
and that's the mountain that i am determined to overcome
i'm climbing that one
with all my strenght
because i have a goal
and that goal is going to be reached
no matter what

get the idea?
so now, you think about your life
and all the moutains that you have in YOUR life; all of the challenges that you are opposed with either in the long run, or just something that's happened or been happening in the past few days. or something that's coming up.
then think about how you could defeat them
how you can overcome them
because no matter what, you have to keep fighting.
=)

it's a nice philosophical thought to be pondering...
i like philosophical thoughts...