Showing posts with label friendship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friendship. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

If You Could See Me Now - Cecelia Ahern

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  • Overview
Elizabeth Egan is too busy for friends. As a reluctant mother to her sister Saoirse's young son Luke and her own business to run, every precious moment is made to count. 

But with Saoirse crashing in and out of their lives, leaving both her sister and her son reeling, Luke and Elizabeth are desperately in need of some magic.

Enter Ivan. Wild, spontaneous and always looking for adventure, in no time at all Ivan has changed Elizabeth in ways she could never have imagined. But is Ivan too good to be true? has Elizabeth opened her heart only to risk it being broken again?

As for Ivan, he thought he was there to help Luke, not Elizabeth - or himself....

  • Review
    There's this something about Cecelia's writing that attracts me. The way she writes brings in a very lovely feeling to her books regardless.  As always, I've been encouraged to read this book after reading the "mysterious" brief overview at the back of book, as I began reading through the book, it felt kind of weird because suddenly I did not know what to expect from it. There was no  mention of imaginary friends to myself whatsoever and when Luke met Ivan -or probably the other way round- I remember thinking to myself "What kind of story is this all of a sudden?". I do admit to wanting to put it back on my and go for another book till I have the desire back to finish it off but that's when Ivan's identity began to grow bigger and I thought to myself "What fabulous twist is this?". That was very different and very unexpected to be honest, when Ivan suddenly turned out not to be a six year old, that's when I started to figure his presence all in all for Elizabeth. I felt really bad for her, she was sacrificing so much and not living her life for herself but living it for her family, especially her sister who didn't really care in anyway. That was sad, but once Ivan popped out, I could feel the difference and in Elizabeth and the life coming into Elizabeth's life once again, that was really lovely.

    "Mistake number two: when sliding it onto her wrist, I felt myself give her a little piece of my heart." That shattered me to pieces literally. Poor Ivan, such a great ending though.

    At the end of this book, you get to realise the beauty and innocence of children. It's a wonderful world, that tiny world of theirs, with a lot of giggles, jokes and peace to be honest. This is why one should take that tiny world of their very seriously because their world is what's important. Once they grow out of it, that's when they join in the adult world where life lacks all the innocence, peaceful joy and giggles.  Luke was such a lovely understanding boy for a six year old. So much respect for him really <3 

    Ivan's personality was very outgoing and bubbly, I found myself smiling and laughing at some parts while reading the book because he was portrayed as the best friend you would always want to hang out around because that friend brought out the best of you. He simply teaches you to live your life with not limits, not boring routines, and full of colors and joy. That's the fun of it really because in the end people should simply "Make Believe".


Sunday, April 17, 2016

Only Time Will Tell - Jeffrey Archer

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"Once upon a time, there existed a book thief wandering around the stacked bookshelves of a public library wondering what to read next. The best shelf to look into was the "best-selling" shelf. What a colourful shelf that was indeed, with various genres and captivating titles that made your fingers itch...."

I think that's enough with the dramatic effect, back to business.

    I came across the fourth volume of the Clifton Chronicles at a local book store hoping that it would be as exciting as its brief summary on the back of it. Little did I know that was the fourth book. For some reason I ended up purchasing it was boy wasn't it a hock to find out that it was the "fourth" book, FOURTH BOOK! Woah, that was a shock I couldn't contain. Upon the second visit, I was determined to get myself a copy of the first volume and wasn't I just lucky enough to get it. I have to admit though, this book sat on my shelf for quite some time before I mastered the courage of read it, and when I did, I read the first few chapters before deciding to keep it as a "second-hand" book while I read something else. Little did I know, little did I know indeed. Once the primary book on my list was read, I grabbed "Only Time Will Tell" and continued. Though for the time it remained untouched on my shelf I had this urge to read it, there was something about the story line, the plot, the writing, basically everything about it that got that feeling in me of wanting to read it.


    This was the very first book I read by Jeffrey Archer and to my surprise his books were all over the libraries I've been to and I couldn't help but ask myself "How come I've never heard of you?" and things like "What is it with your writing that makes you pop out everywhere?". At this moment, I understand why. There are a lot of writers out there that make your heart ache for a few chapters then you simply get sick of that and just feel it got too drifted away. Others will make you feel anxious and excited to know what's to happen next, but as things get taken too seriously and dramatically you simply stop reading the book. Jeffrey Archer is a whole lot different. I have to admit though, despite my intensive reading habit that's getting a little out of control now that I'm interning, I have never came across a mind gripping novel as this one. Literally, just literally from page one to that very last page of the book, I was simply living in an endless loop of excitement, anxiety, sadness, anger, worry, and shock literally! How can someone make you feel gripped till that last page of the book, how? Goodness this was simply beyond the best adjective in the entire dictionary that would fit in to describe this novel. What made it the best of the best is how the story line was carried out from all the main-character's perspectives, and that was smoothly done. Some writers focus on the perspective of one of the characters or two and fail to keep that goodness for the other character's perspective.  I fit weren't for the different perspectives approach, I would've lived the story from Harry's point of view only and that would've bored me to death. But Archer did not, he took the story from Harry's point, Old Jack's point and even Hugo's point of view and did so so very perfectly I could cry from the magnificence it brought to life. You get to taste the ultimate feelings of friendship, sacrifice, loyalty and unexpectedly hatred and power-abuse it's not joke.

    I do have to mention the fact that I couldn't wait to finish reading this book and start "The Alchemist". I remember half-way through the book I felt like I've got the entire basic idea of the Clifton Chronicles and decided to mark this as the last book I read and not continue with the entire series, but when I came to read the very last chapter of the book I was in complete I shock I simply lost  control on my thoughts, and most importantly my mental state. It was the most unexpected and most unanticipated twist in the entire book! How can I not read the second volume? Now that would simply be intense torture to my soul.  I don't want to get started with how magnificent the book cover by itself make me delighted to carry around, I haven't got the chance to carry a red book with an abundance of goodness to read.

    Now I know why Archer is all over the place, and he sure deserves it for the master piece he's created. This book is not like any other book with a story line told from all the main character's perspective it does not even give you a moment to doubt any of the characters for yourself it's pure grandness. That's the main reason I've without a doubt given this book a 5/5 stars without a single hesitation because it was more than that <3 



Thursday, December 19, 2013

Friendship

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"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend "  - Albert Camus

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It was  7:59AM when it actually began.

That early in the morning, as I worked on refreshing the webpage , all the action began at 7:59AM and I do not really know why was I involved.

We began running to the offices, and I wondered this is rebelling in my own terms.
Quite funny, she was just babbling and trembling, all at once. I couldn't help but laugh really. It wasn't the time to laugh, no matter how hard I tried to suppress it..it just came out.

"You can't laugh NOW!" she yelled!

I couldn't really help it!

She was always far behind me, she always said my steps were too big..but this time she started to literally run in the hall way towards his advisers office!

Running early in the morning, considering the fact that we actually had a Lab at 8:00AM, that was rebelling really. Good things we were given 15 minutes to ourselves, thank you lab prof for that! It came in handy at that time. I walked into the office and the adviser looked quite stunned at me " o.o' ". It was like I read his thoughts : " Who is it running in the hallways with it being 8AM" . I have to admit, his expression was priceless! As soon as she marched into the office a few seconds after i did, she vented and started to spill it all out. Poor man, he got really nervous he didn't know how to react quickly. We just followed him to the advising unit as he tried to calm her down but she just talked absent mindlessly. Poor thing , I was just smiling and internally laughing.

It was solved within minutes and the process was done. Our hearts rested in peace thank you dear God.

Ah, our 8:00AM - 8:15 - lab, we rushed for it. Oh yes we did. :)
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