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Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
5.0

It is very interesting that I'm reading this book for the first time when I'm 25 years old. When I was younger, I enjoyed in a picture book and cartoon Peter Pan, also later in movies like Finding Neverland, but to read an original book written by J.M. Barrie, I started the week ago. And I really didn't want to finish her.
Book has that sort of magic, that we lost when we grew up, or just forget about it. The writer is guiding us through adventures of Peter, and there is always feeling that it is like we are writers, because of the comments that author brings, including many of them on how the stage is looking alike, because Peter Pan is a piece written like the theater play.
While I was reading it, in my head, I could remember scenes from a cartoon, but like in almost every ecranisation of the book, many important dialogues arent include. If we accept that magic and imagination that this book can give us, we can also find many real-life answers that are important to us. Things like love, mutual understanding, friendship, motherhood, the importance of growing up in the healthy family, and many other things, on which we didn`t focus when we were younger.
Also, for me to get this book now in my life, made me think about how old I`m or am I really old? About what society expects of you when you are 25, and what do I expect of myself?
It helped me to go back to my childishness and to accept it even if that isn't something that grown-ups do today.
So, book in your hand and by the route "Second to the right, and straight on till morning." Neverland really exists. <3