Every Day by David Levithan - A Review

Every Day by David Levithan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I'll go with the safe rating, 4/5.

I liked the book, yes. But it's driving me crazy. I still can't figure out how he was born that way, living and waking up as another person since birth. How was he even born? I mean, seriously? And the lives of these people he's been borrowing for a day.... won't everything be just screwed up for them for all the missed quizzes, and everything? (hahaha I'm sorry that was lame, but still.... their lives aren't A's and every time he changes their routine, isn't that a way of ruining their lives and relationships w/ other people as well? )

Anyway...

Most/some of us know how it is to be in a relationship, or how to be in love with someone at least. And whether we admit it or not, these persons will never be the same, every day. And so are we. But we love them. We still do love them. Maybe sometimes it's hard to figure out if we're staying just because of fear of being alone, fear of disrupting the arrangement of our current life, fear of uncertainty or just simply because there's a glint of hope within us that tomorrow things will be better. But we know that for this moment, we are willing to accept and this person even if we know that tomorrow, s/he could be a different person. I couldn't really get straight to the point but this book has just made me realize that despite the complications and uncertainties that our future may hold and our past have held, if our love is true, we'd be willing to take risks, whether it means letting go of something or holding on to it.

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- E. 

The Giver by Lois Lowry - A review

The Giver by Lois Lowry

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Not everything under control is perfect. And every single thing could never be under anyone's control.

A society telling us what we must become, a society deciding what's best for us, a society trying to maintain balance in everything, a society which tells us what to hold on to and what we must let go of. We aren't living in this kind of society, or are we?

Are we prisoners of other people's choices for us? Do we really think that if we make other choices (other than those they've already planned for us), we'd be making the wrong one, and we'd be taking the wrong path?

Are we trapped in this kind of world as well? Do we still feel, see, and hear things beyond what our senses can grasp? Or do we simply no longer care about these things?

I find it hard to comment about this book because I feel like the way I've understood the story was quite too shallow compared to the actual message the author was trying to impose.

But I liked the book, I liked the way I understood it (uhh, maybe), even though the ending wasn't quite clear for me. What happened to the community he has left? Was their mission successful or what? The world that holds their future and past, what does it really imply? I don't know, I can't really tell. I'm still on the process of comprehending it further. Maybe I have yet to discover what's beyond the sentences that I've read, the pages that I've turned, the experiences of the characters that I've gone through. Maybe there's still more...

Of course, there will always be something more.

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- E. 

Message in a Bottle - A Short Review

*Spoiler alert*

Message in a Bottle is a story about. . . Well, I suggest that you read its summary somewhere else. The blogger is too stubborn to give you a glimpse of the whole novel. But here's a short review:

Like any other Nicholas Sparks novel, it has these several "predictable" scenes. Maybe it has something to do with his style of writing or maybe it has just something to do with the way I foresee the events happening in the characters' lives. 

But I'm glad that despite this "little" disappointment I felt as I was reading the novel, I've got to learn and realize something about love. 

Garrett, despite his grief and great love for Catherine, was able to move on after years and began to love again. Theresa, despite her sadness and heartbreak after Garrett had died, was able to realize after some time that she, too, would be capable of having something beautiful too in the future. It wouldn't be easy, it would take time, but Garrett has given her hope...

We can really never live competing and comparing ourselves with the people that our "boy/girlfriends/husbands/wives" have loved before. At one point in their lives, they have let go of and moved on from them. What matters is that they love us now, and we have the hope that in the future, they still will. Both people involved in the relationship have to make it work, because the moment one has stopped trying, we'll never know when it'll be all to late... Just like what happened to Garrett and Theresa. They've taken too much time when they could have worked it out...

- E.

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Gotta Keep Reading (I Gotta Feeling)

I got my book!

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Maybe in Spain?

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