Rereading

I’m obsessed!

Started reading The Shell Seekers again. I looked at the YouTube link that Pete sent me about the movie adaptation and it is still clear but I couldn’t understand the dialogue/conversations much. I will watch it again as soon as I am done with rereading the book.  It has been years.

Last night, I enjoyed the short stories featured in A Place Like Home. Wonderful short stories. Set aside the other books I have started…haha!  My TBR list is quite long  now – some books by David Baldacci,  Anita Diamant, Paulo Coelho, Fredrik Backman, Emilie Hart, Gwen Bristow, William Kent Krueger, Leon Uris, Ken Follett, Viola Shipman and other some new authors. I loved Bristow’s Tomorrow is Forever which I read wayback in college. It was my first taste of historical fiction. One of these days, I will do all those reread about the books I enjoyed fifty years ago.

Goodreads says I have read 1,959 books since I started my virtual library there back in 2011 when shelfari.com closed. Those books borrowed  by Dad from the UST High School Library were not included in that list. When we got flooded in 2009, we lost so many lovely books that Nissa, Josef and I have accumulated over the years including our three Thomasian yearbooks and even their grad pictures. We have slowly replaced them with new books and new authors.

I can’t forget what Stephen King said on his lovely book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. And I quote, ‘books are a uniquely portable magic’.

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A Must Reread….One Day In December

Call me a little crazy rereading a book for the 3rd time. Although I don’t usually read romances, this is one of those books that hit me hard so here I am….reading it again. And since I am into reading Christmas stories, I opted to start it again. Woke up early to see Josef feeding our dogs. They eat twice a day. He is on leave for a week so I am not much bothered by time. I could always go back to sleep when I need to. Meantime, there’s a hot cup of coffee on my night table.

October 28, 2018 by arlene

“You tread lightly through life, but you leave deep footprints that are hard for other people to fill.”

A tale of love, loss and friendship. One of those books that you can hardly put down. It’s that good.  Is there love at first sight?

She saw him through a misted-up bus window. She was on the bus and he was sitting at the bus stop. Their eyes met and  they smiled at each other. No communication, no physical contact except that brief eye encounter with a stranger. Then the bus drives away.

For a year together with her best friend, the girl looked for him in each coffee corner and bus stop to no avail. Then one day, the best friend introduces her boyfriend. She was tongue-tied and speechless, the boy of her dreams is  right before her eyes but he belongs to the best friend. She never told the best friend that he is the guy she was looking for.

Such is the start of this beautiful love story One Day In December and it is also my first book of Josie Silver. I think this is also her first book  publication.

She didn’t want to be the third wheel in what she sees as a lovely relationship. The boy denied that they have met before but they became friends eventually. The girl even managed to get married to a guy she met later. As for the rest of the story, it is for you to find it if you ever find a copy of this lovely book. A feel good story spanning a decade of friendship for the three characters.

Sometimes you find a light read like this and you are thrilled. Sometimes you are touched by the message it conveys. Sometimes you just enjoy it and you wish the story would go on. But there is always an ending no matter how good the story is.

And fate sometimes has other plans.

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