Reading Foer and books; not because of a silly new year's resolution

I'm currently reading Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, as evindently stated in the title of this post and the photo to your left.

I have a little mini library that I've been building recently. This book was on that bookshelf and now it's coming down. To tell you the truth, I feel like all I've been doing is buy the damn books, not reading them. As guilty as I am, it's never too late to change your ways. So I'm very eager to start reading a whole lot more this year, coincidentally it happens to be January 1st and new year resolutions happen to be popular during this time of the year, but that's not the reason why I'm trying to read more. I just am because I want to, I don't give a damn about time (well calendar time that is), and I think it's utterly frivolous how people wait for new years to make a resolution. If you want to change something about yourself, do it now. Not then, not tomorrow, not later. Most people don't follow through with theirs anyways. Who says I will with mine?

Well, enough with the ranting and digression, on with the book. So far, I'm enjoying this novel very much. It focuses on an intelligent, wide-eyed, nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell who lost his father on the morning of September 11th. To be honest, I don't quite understand what goes on during some parts of the novel, but I think I'm not supposed to understand what's going on. All I can say is, this book is different in style of what I've ever read. It's poetic, and it even has pictures! Well to put it more poetically and not by me, it's "a rare and really impressive example of a text with fully integrated visual elements," said Mark Jones here. It'll really get you thinking and feeling a different way. I guess it makes me feel "profound"; but using it in such quotations, I am obviously mocking it for it's cliché.

Either way, I encourage you to check out this novel and see for yourself what makes it so profound and enjoyable. I love this kid, Oskar Schell. He makes me feel kind of guilty for not being that kind of kid when I was younger. See, I've already created an invisible bond between myself and a character from a novel; goes to show how much I like it.

Again, feel free to voice any criticisms you may have of my writing or digression. It would be much appreciated.