Acting Adult-like

It is amazing how time changes so many things and yet, deep inside I feel fundamentally unchanged. I am still that same person I was 7 years ago - naive, angsty, confused, dependent and directionless. 

And I used to think that adults automatically know things. Now that I am legally an adult, I still don't know a lot of things. Perhaps adults are just tiny little children hiding themselves in grown-up skin. We walk with swagger and speak in a loud voice. But we are actually pretenders, who tiptoe across this face of earth, hoping that no one discovers our mask. 

Books/Manga/Films/Anime that I really love

• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• The Boy in the World by Niall Williams
• The Boy with the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
• Nodame Cantabile by Ninomiya Tomoko
• Seirei no Moribito by Uehashi Nahoko (both the anime and the book)
• Whisper of the Heart (Studio Ghibli production)
• Howl's Moving Castle (Another Studio Ghibli production) (love the film more than the book...)
• The Third Eye by Lois Duncan
• Seraphina by Rachel Hartman 
• When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
• First Light by Rebecca Stead
• Shuukatsu! Kimi ni Naitei by Yoshino Aki
• Hakuji by Morie Satoshi
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Lord Calthorpe's Promise by Sylvia Andrew (Harlequin manga version)
• The Maid of Fairbourne Hall by Julie Klassen
• Immortal Rain by Kaori Ozaki
• Fullmetal Alchemist by Arakawa Hiromu
• The Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
• When I Was a Kid by Boey
• 20th Century Boys by Urasawa Naoki
• Monster by Urasawa Naoki
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery