Showing posts with label Book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book. Show all posts

Thursday, 23 December 2010

The Book of Tomorrow

Have you ever read a book, that by the time you finished it, you feel like there's a part of you that has changed? That you finally realized this was the right book for you? Well I have. I just finished it this morning. This book titled The Book of Tomorrow.



"I think that most people go into bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow, the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. It’s as though they already know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time."
This book is about an almost-17 years old girl named Tamara who was used to get everything she ever wanted since his dad was a very successful man. But then her dad died and she had to lose everything. Her mother and she moved to her uncle's house, Arthur in the country. Her uncle's wife, Rosaleen, was a very odd woman who at the end, you'll know that she'd been hiding so many secrets.

Tamara was very bored. She didn't have any friends there. But then she found this book, a locked and old book, from the traveling library. She couldn't open it, until she met Sister Ignatius, a friendly 70 years old nun, who could unlock the key. And what she found on that book, was a diary of 'Tamara of Tomorrow'. The book told her some things that will happen on the day after she read it. And there her world changed.

Not to spoil the ending but that part was very unpredictable. She finally found out the truth about herself and her family.
And she finally realized, that she was actually a lucky girl.
"All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, there are gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be."
This is a highly recommended book about how tomorrow can change today. So now, can you please go to a bookstore near you, take this book, then bring to the cashier and pay it? ;)

Sunday, 21 November 2010

It All (Almost) Ends Here

You studied with Hermione. You stumbled with Ron. You hid creatures with Hagrid. You laughed with Fred and George. You fought with Voldemort. You forgot with Neville. You got caught with the DA. You rebelled against Umbridge and Snape. You cheered on Gryffindor. You kept up the rivalry with Draco Malfoy and the Slytherins. You worked with Dumbledore. You stuck with Harry til the end. Now it's nearly over, and now all you can do is remember, and thank J.K. Rowling for the time of your life.

Someone on tumblr wrote that. And when I read it, I suddenly wanted to cry. I mean, I grew up with this story about a boy who lived, fighting The Dark Lord who must not be named. It's been a part of my life for so long. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was the first novel I read in english, when I was in 6th grade, cause I loved it too much. I remember the excitement of waiting for the next book to comes out and I always feel satisfied everytime I finished reading the book. It's the kind of series that I surely love to read it over and over again.

And the movies... I remember when I was just a kid and I wasn't really an internet-kind-of-girl. But sometimes, I turned my computer and modem on, just to search for Daniel's, Rupert's, Emma's, or Tom Felton's photos.

Gosh I surely am gonna miss this. Thank God the first part of the Harry Potter and the DH movie is so greaaat! It got me laughing and wanted to cry at the same time. Two thumbs up for David Yates! Hope the second part is gonna be as great as this one. Or even better! :D