Booked

Fiction makes up the content of many books for us now, but it was not always like that. For a long time, books were thought of as always being truthful. Most people only saw books in a church, like the Bible. Monks would study books about science and philosophy. So it is no surprise that books were assumed to be telling the truth. When reading fiction, one would usually come into it knowing the book is not genuine. People did not have that mental agreement back then. Books could be fictional in those times, but people may not have always known. There were many fictional tales about Alexander. According to those tales, he could fly in an airplane or go underwater in a glass barrel submarine. These stories were popular in the Middle Ages. They got rewritten so many times, that at some point people realized they are fiction. The first real fiction book may have been King Arthur. Prior books may be fictional, but most people use fiction as when both reader and author know the book is not r...

Horror is one of my all time favorite genres to read, write, watch, and talk about. The main question I always find myself asking is what makes horror so scary to people. In my personal experience I have never found horror to scare me, killer in the woods; I wouldn't be in the woods. Supernatural entities; they don't exist. So I  always wondered why people were so afraid of an either easily avoidable situation or an impossible scenario. Then it occurred to me that people's fears lie within the unknown. What we cannot explain nor understand scares us. We fear things like the dark because we cannot see what lies in the shadows. Movies like It, Us, Truth or Dare, Clown, Paranormal Activity, and Before I Wake are all classified as horror movies. I have seen them all and the main thing I think that the writers and directors capitalized on is people's fear of the unknown. Clown is the perfect example of a movie that leaves your skin crawling solely because of the lack of know...

 The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green, is a well written and captivating book. It follows the story of a teenage girl named Hazel. Years ago she was diagnosed with lung cancer, and she is already past her life expectancy. She has been spending her days sitting at home and watching bad tv, having been taken out of school several years ago. She attends a cancer support group from time to time, where she meets a boy named Augustus Waters. Pretty quickly they fall in love, and experience the ups and downs of life together. This book is great. It's funny, and I think it does a surprisingly good job at portraying the mind of a teenager. It's a good romance novel, and it does a great job at making you feel sympathy for cancer patients, but that isn't all its about, either. It's also a tragedy. It teaches a lesson that a lot happens in life that isn't fair. Suffering is inevitable, a part of life, a side effect. Not everything goes to plan, either, so when you find somethi...