Raison d'Etre

So, I blog about books a lot because that is pretty much what I do. Everyday. So with finishing The Perks of Being a Wallflower, I had to go get a new book. So I bought Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. This book was just recently debuted as a film. I have seen the beginning, but not the end which is okay because I want to find the ending in the book.

I think the latest books I have read I really love because of my fascination with Autism. I find it very interesting for some reason and love learning about it. A couple of years ago I babysat a boy with Autism and got very curious about it. I read the book House Rules by Jodi Picoult about two years ago and that spiked my interest even more. I looked up her research on Autism and was amazed about all the information she learned. Just with reading Perks and starting Extremely I am really loving other authors takes on the issue and how they write first person from a character who suffers with Autism.

I love it. I love reading, because I love writing. It's my Raison d'Etre.

Here is a segment that I really love that I just read:

"What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone's heartbeat, and they could hear yours, sort of like a sonar. One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time. That would be so weird, except that the place in the hospital where babies are born would sound like a crystal chandelier in a houseboat, because the babies wouldn't have had time to match up their heartbeats yet. And at the finish line at the end of the New York City Marathon it would sound like war."