{"id":983,"date":"2010-02-10T06:37:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T20:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/?p=983"},"modified":"2013-10-28T05:49:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T19:49:41","slug":"why-i-prefer-chick-lit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/why-i-prefer-chick-lit\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I prefer Chick-lit"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is related to this no-so-old post of mine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have this strange habit or is it a feeling or is it a happening? I am not sure how to describe it but I somehow get into any book I read. No I do not mean I feel what the heroine or any other character in the book feels because I am involved with the book but instead I get the overall mood of the chapter I am reading. Like if I read a not-so-happy chapter, my mood reflects it. It is something I cannot shake off. I cannot keep the book off me. I cannot view the book as a book and a work of fiction as a work of fiction. Instead, I bring it on to my day-to-day life and in short it depresses me. Anything with a shade of gray makes my day gray. It does not have to be a horror story or a sad ending. It is just anything with a little bit of drama or sadness.<\/p>\n

For example, I am reading the Twilight series now. I really did not want to read it as I knew it would have this effect on me but I saw it at a friend’s place and borrowed it. And the past week I have been battling a mild depression. As you probably know, the Twilight series is not a depressing read. Instead it is just a romantic story with vampires and werewolves thrown in. But it affects me or rather I let it affect me personally and deeply. It makes me sad, weep uncontrollably, and in general a mild depressed state is what I am in right now. The problem is, I know what the book is doing to me but I want to know the end. How crazy am I? I kind of inflict this on myself.<\/p>\n

I realized what books do to me or what I let books to me a few years back. it was quite a startling revelation to me. It was one of those things I did not know about me. I stopped haunting the best seller list and gave up my goals to read fiction best sellers and stick to chick-lit and it made a world of difference. I was happy and life was normal but now it is not so. But I want to finish this book. I am at the last book and I am spending all my time reading it so that I can put it away and with it my depression.<\/p>\n

The depression puts me in unease. It brings to light feelings of guilt, sadness, pain and regret. No human is without them. I know all these feelings are a part and parcel of life but facing all of them at once when your mood is sort of whacky does not help. It has been hellish but I want to complete it.<\/p>\n

btw, I was surprised to find a Wiki page on Chick-lit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is related to this no-so-old post of mine. I have this strange habit or is it a feeling or is it a happening? I am not sure how to describe it but I somehow get into any book I read. No I do not mean I feel what the heroine or any other character in the book feels because I am involved with the book but instead I get the overall mood of the chapter I am reading. Like if I read a not-so-happy chapter, my mood reflects it. It is something I cannot shake off. I cannot keep the book off me. I cannot view the book as a book and a work of fiction as a work of fiction. Instead, I bring it on to my day-to-day life and in short it depresses me. Anything with a shade of gray makes my day gray. It does not have to be a horror story or a sad ending. It is just anything with a little bit of drama or sadness. For example, I am reading the Twilight series now. 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