How I and most of the people in the book community feel about spoilers

     NO. I don't know about you guys but I don't like knowing the ending of the book. I rarely get angry but when someone spoils a book to me or tells me something about it, I flip out completely. I mean, why would you do that? Why would you tell me what happened in the book? I'm reading the book so that means I like to find out what will happen myself so why would you spoil me? I especially hate it when they tell me the biggest spoiler you could ever imagine like Tris died. I didn't talk to the person who told me that for a long time. We, readers (especially us crazy ones who treats books like children), want to develop a attachment or a relationship with the characters, the universe and everything about the book but how can we do that if someone told you already what is going to happen and what happens is that I can't concentrate anymore because I'm just waiting for the thing which I know is going to happen. That sucks a lot. If I want spoilers, I'll ask you what happens in the book and not read it but if you see me reading and you spoil me, our friendship is going to be destructed (not really but I will not talk to you for quite sometime). Hopefully, you will think twice whenever you feel the need to spoil someone and if you do and that person decided to get back at you, do not get angry at them because it is you who started it.

That is all I have to say for today.

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Borrowing Books from Me

     Now this had been a pressing problem with me and one of my friends for the past 3 years. I have this friend who also likes to read but the problem is, everything she have read has been borrowed from me. I'm not mean or anything but when she borrows books she doesn't take care of them at all. I have a rule that when people borrow my books, they should treat it very very gently and not throw it around like this particular friend does. What I don't understand is why she can't buy her own books since we are not exactly studying in a school with the cheapest tuition fee. I really spend all of my money on books because I love them and I treat my books like my babies. When asked about this particular matter, she told me that it's not worth it because, in her own words, "What would you do with them after you finish reading them?". I don't buy books for the purpose of showing off. I buy books because of the joy it brings me and because I love reading. In my opinion, it's worth it to buy books because they're like tiny worlds that you can bring everywhere and experience everything while reading them. I don't have anything against people borrowing my books or me borrowing books from other people because I sometimes do that too. What bothers me is that some people give them back to me with some kind of deformity that's not there before I gave it to them to borrow. I HATE THAT. What's worse is that when I asked them what happened, they would deny it. DON'T DENY IT. I will not make them pay if they actually were the reason/s why this book has a folded page or something. The problem is, when I lend them books, I'm not fully happy with my decision because I hate it when people borrow my books because I feel like they're borrowing something personal. That's how I really love my books. I'm really possessive of my books so if you're going to borrow one make sure to treat it like a queen.

I'm not mean though don't worry.

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The Fault In Our Stars movie review

     Hello there reader! This is my first blog post and just to be clear, please do not expect my posts to be about books only because I will be posting blogs about book-to-movie adaptations too, events happening in the "book world" and other things but don't worry as they will be related to books one way or another.

     So my best friend (who is also a reader or a bookworm like me) and I decided to see "The Fault In Our Stars" the day before the real release of it at a exclusive block screening. "The Night Before Our Stars" in the Philippines if you will. So the movie started and we thought it's not going to be that good because movies adapted from books are always missing a lot of the thing that had been shown in the books but this one is different. Of course, there are the occasional slip-ups. Nothings perfect after all but I felt everything I was supposed to feel while watching the movie. I laughed at their (Augustus,Hazel and Isaac's) shenanigans, I felt butterflies in my stomach on the romantic parts and then, the worst feeling of all, the sadness and the feeling that you just lost something very precious when Gus died. I've been crying since before they went to Amsterdam. I may have cried. I thought I'm not going to cry in the movie because I've read the book and I feel like I've survived the worst because the book is already pretty harsh with my feelings. NEVER HAVE I BEEN SO WRONG IN MY WHOLE LIFE. The tears started to make its way (more like pouring) out of my eyes since the part before Amsterdam where Hazel got brought to the hospital because her lungs had a problem and they told her that she wasn't allowed to go there anymore and she looked so crestfallen I wanted to take her place just to see her happy again. So they went to Amsterdam, the inappropriate (I like it though) kiss at the Anne Frank museum happened and they did...things. When they went back, the bad things started to happen. The eulogy, the part where he vomited all over himself and the call. That's where it felt like someone (John Green, I'm looking at you) ripped my heart out, shredded it into pieces and then stomped on it until it has been refined into dust. Yes, its that sad. It doesn't help that the actors who portrayed the character are so great mixed with the artists who recorded the soundtracks which also added to the effect of the movie to the watched.

     All in all, I'm going to say that they movie was great, still is, and of course, they can't copy everything in the book but it's a masterpiece and also heartbreaking as it should. If somehow they see this, I would like to thank John Green for this incredible book for which without him there would be no movie at all, for Ansel Elgort for being everything I hoped Gus would be and more, for Shailene Woodley for being such an amazing Hazel, for Nat Wolff who added even more life into the lively Isaac, who despite his blindness, didn't fail to make me laugh with his jokes and the things he does and to everyone who helped make the movie, thank you all very much.

     Watching The Fault In Our Stars has been a very great experience, one that I would never forget.


That's the end of my first blog post! I hope you bookworms, movie people and/or general people liked it.

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