The Year I Met You | Book Review

This book is a bit different.

It's about Jasmine and Matt who were fired from their jobs.

Jasmine was given gardening leave,

she didn't have to work for 1 year but she's still remaining on the payroll.

Matt had to go through the same situation.

They're neighbours.

Matt was a popular DJ in Ireland but one of his shows

became controversial, so he had to stop working.

Matt had issues with his family, his wife left him, his son hated him.

Jasmine lost her mom when she was 15 because her mom had cancer.

Her sister, Heather had Down Syndrome and her dad remarried Leilah and they had a daughter named Zara.

Jasmine didn't like it when people felt sympathy for her.

She felt like she didn't need people's help and

she constantly felt the need to protect her sister.

Jasmine hated Matt because of one of his shows discussing

Down Syndrom and she felt that

Matt wasn't being respectful.

Slowly, the gardening leave caused them to become closer

and they truly understood each other's situation.

I thought they're gonna fall for each other.

But they're not!

They remained friends and they both managed to solve their problems

as time passed by.

I learned that

we shouldn't rush in this world.

We should consider others' opinion and

think about we act.

We should grab the chances that we're given and 

stop holding back.

When we have problems that we think we can't solve 

or get away from,

we should consider doing something as a distraction.

Find new hobbies, do new stuff and build some amazing interests

and never feel like the world is ending.

When the caterpillar thought that his life

was gonna end, he became a butterfly :)

Eleanor & Park | Book Review

The other book that I read was this book!
It's different than the other two books
as it's more to high school kids' love story.

I felt old reading this.

It's been a long time since I've left those years
lol.

So

But the author had done a great job in making me remember
those sweet memories from high school.

One of the many things that I learned was
we really couldn't judge people from
their appearances.

Also, your foes can be your life savers.

Eleanor was a girl with problematic life.
Her stepfather was never an easy person to deal with
and her mom would always want to have the idea of perfect family
even if she had to dismiss her kids' feelings.

Park had a great family.
When Eleanor was in trouble, his family was there to help her out.

Overall, it's a good book to picturize a life of
a kid from a broken family and how
love can change everything.

After You | Sequel to Me Before You | Book Review

After I read the whole pages of Me Before You,

I discovered that there's a sequel to it.

I was sooo sad because

Qim bought three books for me using his book voucher.

I could have bought this one, but I didn't because I didn't know.

#sadlyfe

We went to Kinokuniya again,

but the book was sold out.

So last week, I went with my mum and

there're only 4 books left!!

But they're the larger copies!

Larger = more expensive!

I had to fork out RM64-ish to buy this book,

instead I could have bought two novels with that.

But did I have any choice?

No!

(I am very impatient to know what would happen next!)

Okay I could really just buy the e-book and save the environment 

but I like the smell of the books and the feeling of flipping the pages.

#dramatic

After You, it was shocking!

I didn't expect Will Traynor to have a daughter that he had never known before.

Lou helped her to get to know her dad and her dad's family.

Will's parents had divorced, yet they're still in good terms.

They was shocked by the news,

so in between the period of knowing the sudden news

and accepting Will's daughter as their grandchild,

the daughter had caused trouble.

A 16-year-old girl, who didn't receive much love

and attention from her family, would cause trouble.

Lou helped Lily in solving her problems.

Lou got an offer to work as carer in NYC,

but she kept deferring the offer to help Lily.

She also faced trouble with her sister who had a son and was still unemployed.

Her mom and her dad kept on arguing over feminist issues.

She kinda had affection for the Ambulance Guy who helped her when she fell from 2nd floor building, but she thought the guy had a son and just played with her feeling, so she decided to keep

her distance from him.

Problems after problems.

I hardly caught my breath reading the book.

Lou was still tied to her love towards Will

and she didn't put herself first.

But I guess, the sacrifice she made,

was really worth it.

Everyone found her/his happiness in the end.

Selfishness is really never the way to live a wonderful life :)

Me Before You | Book vs Movie | Honest Review!

I am clearly not in the mood of taking #flatlay photo, lol.

So all of the images are from Google!

Me Before You, written by Jojo Moyes is now in the cinema!

I am the kind of girl, who will read the book first before I actually go and watch 

the movie.

For example, The Fault In Our Star, Where Rainbow Ends (Love, Rosie) etc.

Most importantly, the trailers play the most significant role'to make me read the book, lol.

A book lover would totally understand the need to imagine

the story, and so I did the same thing.

Me Before You (Book = Movie)

The descriptions in the book were pretty detailed,

which it made me easier to imagine stuff.

Well, I personally like this story because every character changes throughout the plot.

Louisa or Lou,

the heroin of the story was a very chatty person.

She's full of life, she's a happy-go-lucky and cheerful girl.

She tried so hard to cheer Will Traynor,  who had to spend his life on the wheelchair after an accident.

Lou's a selfless girl,

she sacrificed her  bright future for her family

and she sacrificed her time to make the last 6 months that Will had to make them precious.

After so many plannings she made,

they finally went for a vacation,

they really had a good time together

but Lou could never change Will's decision to end his life after that 6 months.

She thought she had given him the life he wanted,

but she was wrong.

Instead, Will had given her so much of new memories in her life.

Will told her to live.

To simply live her life.

The actor and actress had played the role really well.

They just have great chemistry together.

The affection shown in the movie was exactly like how I read it.

Me Before You ( Movie < Book)

In the book, Lou joined online conversation,

in order to help her finding ideas on how to make the best of Will's last 6 months.

In the movie, it skipped that part, but it wasn't that important tho.

When I read the last part of the book, I cried my heart out.

The character that I enjoyed imagining died, I mean, it hurt so badly.

But when I watched the movie,

I guess due to the pre-knowledge that I had,

I didn't cry as bad.

Regardless, 

Jojo Moyes has done a really great job.

She almost beats Cecilia Ahern as my most favourite author.

I have yet to read her other books!

One of the most significant items of the book and movie!

Ramadhan Kareem!

It's Ramadhan here,

and I would like to wish

all of you to have great Ramadhan!

Of many sins I've been comitted,

of many judgments I've made,

of many hearts I've hurt.

of many disappointments I've caused,

of many eyes I've irritated,

of many minds I've poisoned,

of many people I've annoyed,

of many hatreds I've shown,

I am here to repent.

I truly appreciate all of the wonderful thoughts and cares

that people show to me,

and to those who have constantly spreading lies and stories about someone I am not,

I have forgiven you since ever :)

Spread happiness and positive vibes :)