When it comes to me and reading it’s one of those things I
wish I did more. All through middle school and most of high school I
was a pretty avid reader. Especially during the summer months. It wouldn’t be a
shock to go through a book a week. But as I grew up and went off to college the
only reading I did was from a text book and to be honest I probably have read
maybe half of two different books in the last 6 years…how sad. I was determined
to pick up a couple books for this trip. And being unsure if I would have
internet or not I figured I better have something fall back on. Aka: reading.
I started the trip with The Happiness Project. A non-fiction
book that I really enjoyed but that’s another post. Today is about the book
that I started Saturday afternoon and finished Monday afternoon… One Day by
David Nicholls. It’s very possible I would have stayed up all Sunday night reading but with two other
really sleepy people in my room the lights had to go out. It was recently made into a movie and I believe it just came out on DVD. No idea if it’s good but I vaguely
remember hearing about what it was about and figured I would read the book
before watching the movie…which is what I wanted to do with The Help but failed
when my roomies were watching it and I couldn’t resist either.
The book is a love story that is more like a cursed love
story of two people who are too prideful to admit they want to be with the
other. And with life and other boyfriends and girlfriends, the timing was just
never right. Each chapter is dated July 15th with whatever year it is, and
talks about where each of them are in their personal lives and in their life
together. It was a book that after the first chapter I was immediately addicted
to. One of those books where you just know they are bound to end up together
and I’m not going to lie, they do. However, I didn’t see the end result of the
book happening. I literally gasped out loud at the end of one of the
chapters..haha.. silly but I must say it was a great light read. A perfect
vacation or beach read. I’m a little sad I read the whole thing in 3 days…I could
have drawn out the almost 500 pages over the next week. But with nothing better
to do and annoyed with my internet I read.
Anyways totally recommend it for all you ladies out there…now
im almost hoping that this movie is one of the options on our flight back to
the states…ugh..i really don’t want to think about the 14 hour flight…let’s
hope I can pull some sympathy about losing our precious luggage and get an
upgrade or a good discount on some upgraded seats ;) A girl can dream can’t she?
Have a simply lovely day :)
PS: just checked the movies on the flight home and One Day
is totally playing…lets hope that it somewhat lives up to the amazingness of
the book…probably not but here’s to hoping :)
