I had to bookmark The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty to give my head a bit of ease and picked up a new book. I've only started (literally like 2 hours ago) reading Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell  and it's already getting me hooked.

On Chapter 2 when Cath (our fanfic-writing heroine) attends her class in Intro to Fiction-writing, her professor asked this question:

WHY DO WE WRITE FICTION?

and the answers everyone responded was everything i would have answered if someone had asked me. Please note that the bold ones are Cath's thoughts she didnt say out loud.

"To express ourselves."

"Because we like the sound of our own voice."

"To explore new worlds."

"To explore old ones."

"To be somewhere else."   

"To set ourselves free."

"To get free of ourselves."

"To show people what it's like to be inside our heads."

"To make people laugh."

"To get attention."

"To stop hearing the voices in our head."

"To stop. To stop being anything or anywhere at all."

"To leave our mark. To create something that will outlive us."

"To share something true."

"To disappear."

The book piqued my interest ever since it was endorsed by Fully Booked on my twitter timeline, i had to order it the next day (yes, it's a reservation-only book as of right now since it's getting sold out from Fully Booked, though i found them in National Bookstore too.) I am not yet done with the book and i'm already in love with Rainbow Rowell, because i think she was following me around when she started writing this book. She stalked me enough to actually get inside my head and live there then wrote a book.

i'm buying Eleanor & Park next, and maybe Attachments, too. I've never had a single favorite author unlike my friends who are big fans of Haruki Murakami or my sister who had an obsession for Paolo Coelho but i think i've found her.

Rainbow Rowell is literally my rainbow in the sky.