I love the fact that it has the same size screen but without a keyboard and it’s even thinner and lighter. It’s everything that you could want in a Kindle. I think they’re the bees knees since I first bought one. The ink like writing means no eye-strain nothing, I read it with no problem.

It’s so much easier than hauling a huge amount of books around in your handbag. The best thing about it would have to be the traveling aspect, as a uni student I spent most of my time making my way home and back again. I was able to change my mind about reading something in the middle of my journey, and it weighs nothing.

It saves money as a whole, the books are cheaper and you’d probably save your back, carrying a small Kindle rather than your library in your handbag…

I do find it relevant to point out that you don’t have to be reading the classics and taking strenuous notes, but you should be reading material that is similar to the stuff you want to be writing. There is no point in picking up hints and tips from a book that has no relevance to what you actually need.

I love reading a wide variety of books, but when I’m writing I focus on books that can help me with description or character building. I find that if I’m struggling with a setting then I like to go back to some of my favorite pieces of text for inspiration.

It really depends on what mood I’m in, sometimes I find myself having to write something or read something. I run myself a nice hot bath and can easily get through a whole book without even thinking about it. Writing is a lot harder because it actually takes effort and motivation.

Once you have that motivation, it will be the best thing ever.

Well I do not want to delve into the metaphor side of this statement. This is a blog about books anyway. My point is, it is hypocrisy if we say that we don’t judge the book by it’s cover at all.

The cover is a prerequisite when it comes to buying books. It’s like how advertising works. When you go inside a bookstore, you instantly take a look on books that has nice covers. So it isn’t about not judging the book by its cover at all. And then it turns out, after reading the plot, it’s not promising at all.

You feel fooled after. But really… you think twice before picking a book that does not look interesting at all. I believe that if you are the book illustrator, you will have to think of the target audience, and if you are the reader or the prospect buyer, you would like to know how would you want to see the book in bookshelves so it will be bought.

As I said before, it’s like advertising. You have to know the target audience. Who are the people that these author think would appreciate the book. So again, people, naturally, will judge the book by its cover.

I read this book during my first year of university, and other than that all of the poetry I have read would have been forced upon and made to analyze it to a deadline. But this was lovely, I was able to read it at my own pace and then have an adult conversation about it. Most of the people who’ve I’ve talked to agree that it is one of the best anthologies that they have read as well.

I think the control that he demonstrates is something to be awed. I have never had this experience with a book before, especially with poetry. It left me all warm and tingling inside, as cheesy as that sounds, but it really is one of the best!

You as readers can not have a complete library without this book. Go out and buy it – you won’t be sorry.

But I guess thats procrastination for you, finding anything and everything else to do. I suppose that’s why people always say if you’re going to write then make sure you have time to do so, and you dedicate that whole period of time to do that!

That’s what I want to do with my life, I want to write. I fins myself doubting myself, is this really what I’m meant to do with the rest of my life if I’ve fallen at the first hurdle, but then I was watching tv, debating making food, basically anything but writing

So that’s going to be my plan of attack, sit down and just write nothing else! Everything else has to just disappear, especially if I want to be the best writer that I can be, and especially if I want to get published anytime soon.

Fortunately, a good friend of mine deviate from this kind of style and lets me borrow her books that I could definitely say impress me everytime. One of these books is Millard Fillmore, Mon Amour by John Blumenthal.

Millard Fillmore is the fourteenth president of the United States. He is forgotten but fortunately for him, the protagonist of the story is a kind of his admirers. This is a good book, filled with laughs because of the neurotic side of the protagonist and what seemed to be a rollercoaster ride of his life.

This is a good book for those who wants to be refreshed from all the fantasy young adult novels that are dominating the shelves today. These are also for those who wants to read a light story but seemingly provides wise lessons to all the readers out there.

I started doing a bit of researching when I developed an interest in writing children’s books; why exactly were the two jobs so starkly separated? I suppose I never got the why of the matter, but I found that most publishing companies specifically warn authors that it’s less likely that their book will be published if they are unwilling to publish it without their own illustration.

What?!

That’s insane to me. I mean, short of the author submitting some really terrible art – and I don’t think any author would do that because it would sell the story short – why wouldn’t you give the author input on the visual aspect of the book?

It makes me wonder whether all of those beautiful books that I fell in love with as a child were an actual representation of how the author had envisioned the book? Do you think that Margaret Wise Brown (“Goodnight Moon“) is horrified by the images created by Clement Hurd? That book stands out so starkly in my mind for it’s beautiful pictures, but I can barely recall the exact words. And it’s not because it’s not a beautifully written story; just, to me, the images represented the story so well that my mind dwells upon the visual.

It’s sad to think a book has less of a chance of being published if the author refuses to outsource the illustrations. I hope that there are some publishers out there that understand the important connection between the two and celebrate author/illustrators everywhere.

If you’re looking to be a published author, it can help to seek the wisdom of already-published authors. When you read the work of those who have already gone down that path, you pick up new ways of expressing yourself. That’s not to say you should copy someone’s sentence structure or mimic another author’s style; I’m just saying that reading more can open your eyes to different ways of writing.

Reading fiction is especially important for those like myself who write a lot of non-fiction while still aspiring to write fiction. The differences between the two styles can make it hard to write subtly or set a mood rather than just inform. If you’ve been dedicated yourself to writing and you’re hitting writer’s block, I suggest you pick up a book and begin reading. It can open your eyes to possibilities that you may not have thought of before. And hopefully, it will inspire you to write better.