Let me introduce myself first. The name's Aly (trust me, my real name is too hard for you to pronounce and I can not stand mispronunciation of it for one more second let alone every year of my life). I'm 17, on the cusp of adulthood; and yet I still haven't completely and utterly defined who I am. Am I the bubbly, outgoing, no-filter teenager who will do anything if I'm bribed or the quiet, slightly intelligent please-don't-talk-to-me-I'm-trying-to-stop-blushing teacher's pet who begs for just one higher mark? I could easily be both, but describing myself in five words is not something I can muster let alone defining my one personality type. Does that make sense? Most of the time I don't so bare with me while I sort myself out. But let's see what else I can come up with. I'm opinionated to the point of where most people will tune out to my ranting in the first 3 minutes; have a bad habit of walking so loud you can hear me from 100 metres away and will never accept the fact that this is 2014 (almost the end of it) and I have not yet had a boyfriend I can't have a pet pygmy goat. One day, I hope to be a well known journalist in the field of medicine, entertainment or travel. Or you know, all three, but once again my highly-inflated ego is promising something my physical capabilities can not yet comprehend.
And I must let you know in on one more thing: I LOVE BOOKS. The smell of them, the smoothness of the paper, the words inside that can take you to a world you'll never want to leave, the way you feel once you've finished such a good book that surely you can't find one to top it; they change you. I endeavour to attempt all genres, lengths, and time periods;not just for my own pleasure but for yours, to know what's good and what's great and what's downright awful (but of course this is constructive criticism and in my own opinion and will not be affiliated with the actual author at any stage). But for once, to actually have someone who might listen to me and understand and allow me to be myself without thinking of the horrible judgement I'm going to get is something that will definitely be worth it. However I must warn you: with the books comes the reading, and with the reading may potentially come rants, a few spoilers (there will be an enormous warning on this in the title) and fangirling. That's right: fangirling. Urban Dictionary (oh the faithful site that is constantly changing due to irrelevant updates of even more irrelevant words) defines this pop culture term as:
"The reaction a fangirl has to any mention or sighting of the object of her "affection". These reactions include shortness of breath, fainting, highpitched noises, shaking, endless blog posts, etc."Are you already judging me dear reader? So be it. This is inevitably going to happen from time to time, and as much as I shall attempt to quell it (in the most direst of situations I have become so overwhelmed that I have thrown my book at the wall and refused to pick it up for 3 days), there may at times be (as quoted) endless blog posts on characters and quotes and scenes that you may tire from to begin with but I can assure they will soon become just another nonchalant post on your feed. You have been prepared.
Hence why, this is a new beginning. A blog of book reviewing, rants on current events and as mentioned in the title, tea that I'm most likely going to spill on my favourite top again. A blog that hopefully, is going to become the highlight of your day, that reading it will make you smile and forget about your worries or encourage you to read a truly amazing book that you have to read right this second (heads up I also over-exaggerate quite a lot). And what do we know, perhaps it could lead to my own column or talk show or the position of editor at TIME magazine. That, or a life spent wasted online. What's new?
Welcome to the Book Nook.
