Book Mourning
Tuesday, December 16, 2014After many months of this year spent reading, I'm coming to the end of the last instalment of Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instrument series and as an avid reader it the mixture of feelings can only be described a book mourning. I find it only washes over you when I'm reading a saga of books although it can strike if you get very emotionally connected to a single book.
Basically, I don't know whether anyone else gets this but whenever I come to the end of series/saga of books I have a lot of conflicting feelings - I feel quite sad as I know that this is the end of the series of books (yes I can read them again) but for months I've been identifying with these characters and finally the adventures come to an end. However, I feel quite happy because I've finished and can have a fresh start.
It's book series like Twilight can be one of those sagas that you never want to finish. I remember, when I got to the end of Breaking Dawn I left the last chapter for weeks because I didn't want the story to come to an end.
The mourning part is the bit that seems a bit weird...you see after you've finished it's sort of like wallowing, stumbling round contemplating the fact that you've finished the journey with those characters. Then you feel like you've gone through so much, especially if the books' have been emotional; made you cry, laugh, happy, think deeply, yearn for some sort of love. The affection for certain characters (if you think it's not true it is) for example I admit I have certainly fell in love with Edward Cullen. No, it's not strange! I'm sure there's many others except there ultimate fictional could be Harry or Ron. Maybe Augustus Waters? Who knows!
The best way to get over this feeling? Read a contemporary! It could be a soppy romance, about friendship basically just something lighthearted! This isn't true facts to be quite honest, I just define it as this but it's really hard to explain in words.
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