Hello!
One morning, after staying up late the past night, finishing reading my current book, Eragon I realized something. An answer to a thought that's been bothering me for the past weeks. The thought;
"I have no one to talk with about books".
I know other people who like to read, and who read more than me. But I don't really know anyone that likes the same books as me.
Being a very emotional person, I sometimes just get this urge, or craving if you will, to talk with someone. It's not just an urge really, it's a need. I feel like I have so many emotions going on and I just have to share my thoughts with someone else. Currently I just blabber on about characters, environments, languages to anyone who's willing to listen, I don't really care that they don't have a clue what I'm on about I just talk to share some of my feelings.
So, if I'm to get to the point. The thought that occurred to me, is that if I write reviews I can share my feelings and thoughts on the books I read to people that are interested and I won't have to ask people I know to read the same books as me!
Brilliant.
This might seem very obvious to you. but i haven't really written any reviews ever. The thought of me writing book reviews just seemed so.. weird I suppose? I guess it's a scary thought since I'm not very sure of what I'm doing, but I am sure that I want to share my thoughts with others and this just seems like a great way to do it. And so, I'm going to right here, with the book that is freshest in my mind. Eragon, by Christopher Paolini. Please do note that I read this in Swedish, so there's some differences in language and apparently also the cover is done by a different artist.
My initial thought when I opened up the book was "this is going to be good" when I saw the map. I don't think I've ever read a book with a map with the beginning that hasn't been good. You are free to prove me wrong, but I'm going to stick with this map theory for as long as I can! Anyways, throughout the first chapters I had a really cozy feeling. Especially the environments are beautifully written and I could easily imagine the world where Eragon took place.
Now, I'm going to try to share my thoughts with you without actually spoiling any of the story. For the most part of the book, Eragon, (the character, not the book) bothered me a bit. The way he made decisions and his thoughts often seemed oblivious to me and I felt like I couldn't understand him . But then something changed. I think I realized that Eragon meant well in the things he did, but he was simply not used to his new life and therefore sometimes couldn't make the right decisions. At the later part of the book you can sense that something in Eragon has changed, he's more mature, smarter and stronger. And when I realized that, I also realized that Eragon after all was just a normal boy who went on a journey and I got to be a part of his journey, both in a sense of journey as in adventure and as in a journey of maturing. And I am glad I got to be a part of it, even if I didn't realize it at first. I often caught myself sighing over Eragons decisions and even if I got annoyed sometimes I still couldn't quite bring myself to putting the book down. There was still something very special about Eragon.
Even though I've established that I grew fond of Eragon throughout the book, I still had a feeling that this book was mainly targeted for teenage male readers, which probably was why I couldn't relate as much to Eragon as I maybe would've wanted. But I don't think that has to be something bad, I enjoyed the book so I'm guessing that if you're a male teenager reading Eragon you'd enjoy it even more. I also think that it might have something to do with the fact that the author actually was a male teenager when he wrote the book, which, I think, could really emphasize the chance of young male readers relating even more to Eragon. This is of course just a thought.
Before wrapping things up, I'd like to say that I very much enjoyed the languages featured in Eragon. I especially enjoyed 'the old language' because, I might be wrong here, but I do think that it has some inspiration in the nordic languages. There's some words that are quite similar to words in Swedish and I thought it was neat. But then again, I might be wrong. However, to summarize things, I did enjoy Eragon even though we had some rough times. The languages and environments are impressive to me and to think how young the author was when he wrote this is even more impressive. I'd like to say more things about the environments but I only know what they're called in Swedish and I'm a very awkward translator and will not embarrass myself right now.
It felt pretty good to write about my reading experience and I do hope that I will keep this up. Does this mean that I am not blogging about clothing anymore? No. I actually have a post planned, but I just can't seem to get the light right in my photos (a rhyme!). It is a work in progress however and I do hope that it will be posted soon.
Best wishes,
Melly
