Book : One Day by David Nicholls

book cover courtesy of goodreads

*Originally posted on my good reads account.* 

I cannot force myself to read this book anymore. At page 75, I'm already done with this. This is one of those English novels that I find so boring even from the very beginning. I cannot connect with the characters and I don't even think the characters have connection with each other. Oh, my God. I couldn't even understand why our heroine here, Emma, is pining for a jerk, douche, an asshole, a sorry excuse for a man like Dexter over the years. Like seriously?  And both characters are pathetic. I cannot even root for either of them.
 
The author, David Nicholls deceived me! I was sold at the teaser and the premise of the book and the comments that came from some of the notable authors in the world. And what the hell did I get from this book? I just ended up frustrated, annoyed and everything else. I hate this book so much. That's too harsh but that's all I can say.

What I got on Valentine's Day

I was so freakin' happy when I finally received the package from Ate Yumi, one of my favorite Pinay writers and  I've been friends with her since 2009 and she's one of my earliest on-line buddy.  She sent me the latest novel of Mr. John Grisham, The Racketeer. And take note, hardbound s'ya! I didn't expect it. Sakto na kasi saken kahit paperback edition siya. At may kasama pa na first book niya sa PHR, kaya I'm really so happy, kasi wala akong copy nung first novel ni Ate Yumi or mas kilala sa PHR as Mandie Lee.

I'm really so grateful for the books she sent me. I feel so ashamed, kasi yung copy lang ng book ko yung binigay ko sa kanya :( Hopefully makabawi ako sa kanya next time. 

Anyway, I'm really happy upon receiving this on Valentine's day. Kahit walang nagbigay saken ng flowers ( di ako bitter) mas gusto ko talaga ang book at mas ma-appreciate ko yun :)

Thanks Ate Yumi Sagara / Mandie Lee!!!

Currently Reading: The Rainmaker by John Grisham

I'm currently reading this but I stopped even before I get to the climax of the story.  I've heard lots of good praises of this book but I don't know... just got suddenly bored reading this. Maybe because after reading the casts of the movie version, I found out that Claire Danes was one of them. I don't have a personal hate towards Miss Danes, I just...  dislike her. Anyway, I still want to finish this book since a friend of mine said it is good.

It's December...

yep.

Time flies really so fast! It's December again and we're about to end the year 2012. Pero sa lahat yata ng December or Christmas season na narasan ko in my 26 years of existence, ito na yata ang December na pang-summer ang klima. It's supposed to be cold and chilly already, pero ang init-init pa rin!

Anyways, since it's December na nga, let's make way of December! It's the time of Christmas parties, gift-givings, reunions and whatnot. And this time of the year, ngayon lang punong-puno ang weekends schedules ko. Imagine, para na akong celebrity sa dami ng rampa ko for this month! XD

What's so good about this season? Siyempre ang walang katapusang chibugan (mapigilan ko sana ang self ko) and of course ang matatanggap na regalo! I've already told my friends of my wishlist so I'm just waiting for the day of the gift-giving :D .

I've so many things to accomplish for this month. I'd already posted this from my previous blog entry but here they are again:

1. Finish watching The Tudors.
2. The Vampire Diaries and Sherlock marathon.
3. Read tons of books.
4. Watch Henry Cavill, Christian Bale, Ben Barnes and Tom Hiddleston (my new Brit crush) movies.
5. I want to write again.... but that depends on my mood and my willingness to write Curtis's story. I need to plot and outline his story para hindi ako maligaw. I tried writing a chapter for his story when I had an overnight writing session with my friend last weekend but I find it #EpicFail. Hindi ako natuwa sa sinulat ko. It's not what I wanted to happen, eh. So yeah, I'll erase my chapter one and make a new one. Iyong ikakatuwa ko. LOL.

I hope I could do all the things listed here. GANBARIMASU!

-Yaney-

Addicted to John Grisham's books!

After submitting my revision of Shinji's story last week, I decided to read the book I borrowed from my friend, it was "The Firm" by John Grisham.

At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best in America. He made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage and hired him a decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what his brother Ray — doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail — already knew. You never get nothing for nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch’s firm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between a rock and a hard place, with no choice — if he wants to live.

Reading the first pages of the book got me hooked on it already! and I instantly fell in love with the main protagonist, Mitchell Y. McDeere. I love his character so much, a 25 year-old guy with a degree of accounting and is a CPA and top 3 in his class in Law school! aside from those credentials, he is really good-looking!!! whoa! isn't he made of every girls' dreams & fantasies? and I also love the fact that he's happily married to his wife Abby McDeere :D

Well, it wasn't only because of how handsome and how hotshot of a lawyer and how almost perfect Mitch was why I got hooked on The Firm, it's also because of the story. I really admire how John Grisham wrote this masterpiece. He's a great story-teller; it was like I'm watching a movie when I'm actually reading the book. I don't know how to say this, but I really really love the story so much, that I keep talking about it, about Mitch, and how it affected me. You know, when I read a book and it's really good and I love the characters, their behaviors, thoughts, feelings, actions, etc etc, affects me in so many ways that I even felt as if they truly exists. There was this chapter/scene in which Mitch cheated on Abby by having a sexual affair with some local girl in Cayman Island and I was so pissed off with him! How could he cheat on his perfect beautiful wife Abby????!!!! Howww??!!!! Damn. I was glad that Mitch repented on his carelessness and he felt sick of himself cheating on Abby. And I was also glad that he didn't admit this to Abby, because you know, if I were Abby, I'm not sure if I'm ever to forgive Mitch for cheating on me. LOL

It's this book that when you turn the page, your heart is beating so fast anticipating for every scenes, for what's going to happen next, especially on the part where Mitch and Abby were running away from the firm, the mafia and the FBI. I just love how the characters were presented as if they were really existing people. You know, they were not perfect in the sense that, Mitch has this selfish attitude (I don't know how to say/explain this, you'll know when you the read the book).

I got to finish this book in 4 days, and 'til now I'm still on the 'Mitch' high. I so love the novel, that I downloaded the movie adaptation. Last Tuesday, i got to watch the movie, Tom Cruise as Mitch McDeere (I was actually imagining Tom Cruise as Mitch while I was reading the book. minus the height of course! LOL. Mitch in the novel is six-two and we all know how tall Mr. Cruise is :p). I'd say that the movie wasn't a bad adaptation, it's good but I really prefer the novel much much more. There were a lot of things to compare from the movie to the original story in the book. The movie didn't go far from the novel but there were things that were changed and I'd like to say I wasn't really satisfied. It was... uhm, Okay. They say, usually movie adaptations of stories from the books are not 100 percent similar to the original. So yeah, I can forgive that, after all Tom Cruise as Mitch McDeere was great in the movie. I wasn't just satisfied of how the ending turned out to be.

If anyone hasn't read it, I'm encouraging you to read The Firm by John Grisham. It's really a good read! I said, I'm addicted to John Grisham's books, I'm currently reading "The Runaway Jury" (which I bought at the bookstore last January but wasn't able to read until last Monday.) and when I'm done with this one, I'll read "The Rainmaker" (this is recommended by my lawyer friend) next.