I was freaking eighteen years old already and I don't even know why I cried at the God-knows-how-many-times I've re-read Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. I just finished it a minute ago, and here I am, in my dormitory room --oh, yes, a dormitory-- with puffy eyes and silently weeping because my roommate is still awake.

The thing with children book --is Harry Potters series considered as a children book? I thought it was, but the seventh one? Let's just assume that it was too-- I repeat, the thing with children book is, as you grow older, you have seen much more thing than your younger self, and all the problem in the book; the thing, the facts, the inside jokes, the nasty language; you realize that the book is somewhat left you a message, a deep message that maybe the children can not even decipher.

This freaking book, the very last book from Harry Potter series, had taught children how to not behave badly to get what they want. To love people well. To fight the bad side. To fight for the weak.

But then, did the children actually know and understand about the sacrifices, the dark fear that almost everyone had, the secret behind Hermione's fear of being spelled and all of potterhead theories, the true love in loving someone, all the pride, all the hate, all the joy, how Narcissa protect Harry just for seeing her Draco, the marauder's lively friendship, all the mischief, Sirius's twelve years of waiting, how Ron's fury to Harry on the fourth book, all the pain of Snape hiding his love for Lily, all the shame Slughorn held in his head, all of Fudge's fear for Voldemort, all of Voldemort weaknesses...

And don't forget that bitch Umbridge; even we can forgive Snape and the Malfoys, but not Umbridge.

What I mean is, this freaking children book is amazing. Go search Harry Potter text post on tumblr and you will find dozen text about people scrumming down Harry Potter facts and connecting it with actual science; psychology theories and logical thinking about why this character did this, why was this happening, why wasn't that instead --and even though it is part of the fandom's guess, it is still true, and we can actually relate it to the book. That is why this series is amazing --no, that is why literary work is amazing.

Go read this series for the last time, if you want to. I think if we re-read it with different knowledge of the world, we might get the actual meaning of the writer's intention, not mentioning the deep ones. And maybe that is why we always here in the fandom, until the very last time, because we love this book so much, and also the characters, and the story, and of course the world inside it.

And remember your answer if people ask you if you are still re-reading this book after all this time,

"Always."

Labels: rambling, reccomendation, review

Hello.

I want to bring a new topic here, since I only post about negative things lately. So today I want to give a review about my Takarai Rihito's favourite works, Hana no Mizo Shiru, Check it on mangahere or mangago if you like, I just love it so much.

Ah, did I mention it before? Hana no Mizo Shiru is a BL manga :)

cover on Craft

the cover

Well, I'm re-reading it right now (with a warm bowl of instant chicken soup by La Fonte), and I kinda want to give a review about it.
Firstly, you can check by yourself about the character, the storyline, and etc. Just google it. I just want to give my opinion about this and that, and when Misaki this and Youichi that...

Anyway, the seme is the brown haired one, Youichi and the uke is the white haired, Misaki.

When we read chapter 1, we will be greeted by Misaki's necklace.

who sell this anyway? I want this necklace too

Hana no Mizo Shiru, only the flowers know, and Misaki is so cute with the flowers! So Misaki is working on a laboratory, and he's majoring on Agricultural. Then Youichi is accidentaly know him because his friend told him about Misaki aaaaand the continue to know each other since Youichi is helping the lab with Misaki (because the Prof. there is happened to know Youichi, and since the lab needs a help with something (idk I forgot) so Youichi offers himself)

I just can't express how I love Misaki here because HE'S JUST TOO CUTE TO RESIST. Ugh, and WHO DOESN'T LOVE A WHITE HAIRED UKE, HUH???

you should'nt be carrying this much by yourself. WELL YOUICHI HE'S A MAN TOO JUST LIKE YOU

Rihito sensei's artwork is great, a bit weird on the nose part but it's fine. I like how she draws the eye and the hair. And the hand of course, since I can't draw hands that well. I wish I can buy her art book, or her works but, yeah. my parents wont't allow it.

I bought Nakamura Asumiko sensei's Utsubora, and it happened to be rated M manga. I asked my aunt (who is living in Singapore) to buy it for me (since we don't have Kinokuniya here) and the package come with a plastic wrap (which is wrapped three times) and a R18 sticker on it. I was questioned by my parents after the book was coming. What is this book about... where do you know the mangaka... and such. Meh, I couldn't say I knew Asumiko sensei from a yaoi manga she draw!
Utsubora is a rated 18 straight manga. How about I buy a rated 15 yaoi manga? It will be a chaos.

Actually there's a lot of yaoi manga which is having a great moral value as much as straight manga does! But since it's a boy x boy relationship.... /sigh

anyway this is quite cliche - a bump in the train station and their things get swapped

Youichi have a bad sight, he uses lenses because his glasses isn't strong enough. His eyesight is bad enough to not recognize Misaki when they bump into each other, haha! Youichi is a nice and clumsy seme here~

ANYWAY, do I need to review the entire book here? You can read it yourself by the way!

So this is the end of the review! Ha ha ha, sorry for this useless review tho. I just in the mood to write something and re read something. But seriously guys, you need to check this manga because it just great! And check Rihito sensei's other works too! The one which is ongoing is 10 count, and it is nice too! Just check them all, hahah~

Labels: japan, manga, reccomendation, review, yaoi