full time dreamers: Books

Maudy Ayunda saat membeli buku

Maudy Ayunda hobi baca buku sejak umur 3 tahun. Hobi membaca buku rupanya sudah cukup lama dijalani oleh Maudy Ayunda. Hal ini bermula sejak usia 3 tahun di mana Maudy Ayunda sudah bisa membaca buku. Tidak ada ruginya jika kita memiliki hobi membaca buku. Inilah yang dirasakan maudy Ayunda dengan kesukaan dirinya membaca buku. Selain banyak ilmu yang didapatkan, Maudy juga memiliki wawasan yang luas dari buku-buku yang sudah ia baca.

beberapa alasan agar anda juga giat membaca buku

1. Menghilangkan kebosanan

Setiap kali saya merasa bosan, pasti saya akan mencari buku dengan jalan cerita menarik atau dari penulis favorit untuk dibaca. Cerita yang seru, gaya menulis yang menarik, karakter yang lovable, bisa membuat kita dengan cepat melupakan bahwa kita sedang mengalami kebosanan.

2. Melepaskan stres

Membaca buku bisa membantu melepaskan stres, karena buku—terutama buku fiksi, menawarkan quick escape dari dunia nyata untuk sementara. Kita bisa melupakan (walaupun hanya sementara, sih) jalanan macet, kereta commuter yang superpenuh, atau bos di kantor yang membuat hidup kita tersiksa. Kita bisa dengan cepat tenggelam dalam cerita dan plot yang ada sehingga bisa membuat pikiran lebih rileks.

3. Memperbanyak kosakata

Dengan membaca buku, kita akan menemukan banyak kosakata baru yang mungkin belum pernah kita tahu sebelumnya. Apalagi kalau kita membaca buku bahasa Inggris atau bahasa lain selain Indonesia, selain kosakata, kita juga bisa belajar ejaan dan struktur kalimat. Buat yang memang pekerjaannya banyak berhubungan dengan menulis pasti akan sangat terbantu dengan banyak membaca.

Cover by John Jude Palencar, featuring the blue dragon Saphira

Eragon is the first book in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, who began writing at the age of 15. After writing the first draft for a year, he spent a second year rewriting it and fleshing out the story and characters. Paolini's parents saw the final manuscript and decided to self-publish Eragon. Paolini spent a year traveling around the United States promoting the novel. By chance, the book was discovered by Carl Hiaasen, who got it re-published by Alfred A. Knopf. The re-published version was released on August 26, 2003.

The book tells the story of a young farm boy named Eragon, who finds a mysterious stone in the mountains. A dragon he later names Saphira hatches from the stone, which was really an egg. When the evil King Galbatorix finds out about Eragon and his dragon, he sends his servants, the Ra'zac, after them in an effort to capture them. Eragon and Saphira are forced to flee from their hometown, and decide to search for the Varden, a group of rebels who want to see the downfall of Galbatorix.

Critiques of Eragon often pointed out the similarities to other works such as Earthsea and Dragonlance. Reviews also called the book a notable achievement for such a young author as Paolini. Eragon was the third-best-selling children's hardback book of 2003, and the second-best-selling paperback of 2005. It placed on the New York Times Children's Books Best Seller list for 121 weeks. Eragon was adapted into a feature film of the same name that was released on December 15, 2006.

Origins and publication

Christopher Paolini started reading fantasy books when he was ten years old. At the age of fourteen, as a hobby, Paolini started writing the first novel in a series of four books, but he could not get beyond a few pages because he had "no idea" where he was going. He began reading everything he could about the "art of writing", and then plotted the whole Inheritance Cycle book series. After a month of planning out the series, he started writing the draft of Eragon by hand. It was finished a year later, and Paolini began writing the "real" version of the book. After another year of editing, Paolini's parents saw the final manuscript.

They immediately saw its potential and decided to publish the book through their small, home-based publishing company, Paolini International. Paolini created the cover art for this edition of Eragon, which featured Saphira's eye on the cover. He also drew the maps inside the book.

Paolini and his family toured across the United States to promote the book. Over 135 talks were given at bookshops, libraries, and schools, many with Paolini dressed up in a medieval costume; but the book did not receive much attention. Paolini said he "would stand behind a table in my costume talking all day without a break – and would sell maybe forty books in eight hours if I did really well. It was a very stressful experience. I couldn't have gone on for very much longer." In the summer of 2002, American novelist Carl Hiaasen was on vacation in one of the cities that Paolini gave a talk in. While there, his stepson bought a copy of Eragon that he "immediately loved". He showed it to his stepfather, who brought the book to the attention of the publishing house Alfred A. Knopf. Michelle Frey, executive editor at Knopf, contacted Paolini and his family to ask if they were interested in having Knopf publish Eragon. The answer was yes, and after another round of editing, Knopf published Eragon in August 2003. It also led to a new cover, drawn by John Jude Palencar.

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