Love, Rosie

Recently, I just finished reading Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern. This book was first published as Where Rainbows End but then it was adapted into movie entitled Love, Rosie. Some of you probably have already watched it but as usual, the book is way better than the movie. Oh here this guy again complaining about how book version is better than movie blah blah…

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I was actually not into love, romance book but I also couldn’t stand living my life just focusing on serious stuff, letting myself drown in black and white so I supposed this kind of book would help me relieved my stress to some extent, and surprisingly it worked. Love, Rosie has so many humors as I think I have to apologize for people surrounding for chuckling and then immediately pretended like nothing was going on. Don't judge but I think I started to keen on this kind of book material.


One of the unique traits about this book which I think distinguish it with other books (that I read) is how the writer presented the story-line. I love the idea of making the whole story only based on the letter and chat messenger that posted/sent between the characters and it then evolves the story-line. It sort of narrates about one's lifetimes. From how Rosie knew Alex and their childhood, and getting married part, divorced, have sons, daughter and.. oh wait as much as I hate spoiler I think I shouldn't be one for those who haven't read it yet. You're welcome.

This book basically a story about how best friends could change into lovers. Yes, very cliché yet it still happens around us. We do hear or read or being exposed with the myth of being best friends with different gender is not going to work as one of them (or perhaps both) will fall in love with another. I do respect with this perspective but I guess it doesn’t work on everyone?

“You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you’re doing, where you are, who you’re with, and if you’re OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and protect you from your fears. You need someone who will treat you with respect, love every part of you, especially your flaws. You should be with someone who could make you happy, really happy, dancing on air happy.”

The hopes and dreams that you’ve set in the beginning sometimes don’t work like what they supposed to. That’s how the perfect life you expected and you planned turned into misery and everything turned upside down and ruined every single thing. And that’s how you know the only option left is just moving on.

I would like to recommend this book for those who seek for something light, witty and heart-warming read.

Paper Towns

I rarely took so much time to finish a book (in average pages) but swear to god I took around 12 months to finish Paper Towns. Alright simply say a year. I’d tried to balance my studies time, rollicking time with friends and even time for myself. However the term ‘time for myself’ is normally filled up by taking naps in behalf of getting rid of the fatigue caused by full classes, assignments and whatnot so I supposed the so-called ‘time for myself’ does not exist and it’s probably just a delusion. So excuse, denied.

Enough with pointless explanation, here’s a short synopsis about Paper Towns by John Green.

Quentin believes that Margo Roth Spiegelman has run away from home, and is leaving him clues to her whereabouts. With his friends, Ben and Radar, Quentin investigates a paper trail (a Paper Towns paper trail) left by Margo (including her highlighted copy of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman) that leads them to an abandoned mini-mall. When the trail goes cold, Quentin worries that Margo Roth Spiegelman's body has gone cold too. He scared if she committed suicide just like the man they found nine years ago.

I’ll rate this book 8.5 out of 10. It has a nice storyline, some humorous characters which led me to giggle and sometimes burst into laugh, some adventurous parts but I have to say in the middle of the story it’s getting a lil bit bored but no worries, you’ll discover another climax afterwards.

Here are my favourite lines from Paper Towns.

“    I like the strings. I always have. Because that’s how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it is, I think. We’re not as frail as the strings would make us believe. And I like the grass, too. The grass got me to you, helped me to imagine you as an actual person. But we’re not different sprouts from the same plant. I can’t be you. You can’t be me. You can imagine another well- but never quite perfectly, you know?    ”

I’m so blithe finding out Paper Towns is going to be out as a movie soon. I seriously can’t wait for the movie to be out in the cinema so I guess amateur book readers like me have the opportunity to distinguish between the book and the movie version (even though all the based-on-book movies frequently not like what readers expected them to be) but let’s give a chance, shall we?

Looking for Alaska

Here’s a little secret about me. I've been a big fan of novel since I was in primary school. While my other friends at my age at that time were busy with their play station, football and crush, there was me spending my time on novel. Unfortunately, as I grew up, my life as a student restricted me to spend more time on reading. Hate it.

My daily itinerary as a student was completely sucked. Went to school till evening, doing tons of homework at night, went to extra classes on weekend and attended myself to co-curriculum activities. I was basically had no time to do something I'm interested in, excluding taking naps.

So as soon as I finished SPM, I started to read novel back. The Fault in our Stars by John Green, which I bought with my own penny. Yes you can tell how bored I am at that time. Plus, everyone complimented how good that novel is so I resorted to buy and read it and judge it on my own. Just thank god my money worth it. You may already experience the story line through the movie but I swear it’s different when you read it from novel.

After finished tfios, I started to buy another John Green’s which is Looking for Alaska. (I think I want to start making a not-so book review but it’s actually not that too book review but still you can consider it as book review).

What can I say about this novel is it has its own strength and just interesting as tfios in a nutshell. Besides, it has some mysterious element which can make you curious about the plot and the characters as well. Not going to write the details of this novel because you can google it by yourself but here’s a short synopsis about this novel.

Miles Halter or "Pudge" as he is referred to throughout the book is the protagonist, and the book starts with Miles leaving Florida to attend a school in Alabama. He's introduced by his roommates to beautiful, mysterious and emotionally confused Alaska Young, and the story progresses, mostly centred on Miles' life at Culver Creek and his growing attachment to Alaska. There are also essential parts of teenage life thrown in casually and skilfully to the story, such as pranks, bets and disastrous parties.

Here are my favorite lines from Looking for Alaska.

“    When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.    “

I suggest this novel to those who need something different for their reading and imagination for sure.