From my bookshelf: "There's No Place like HERE"

Since I'm stimulating my brain again by reading, there is no best way to share it to others than write a review and maybe rave and rant....whatever the outcome of my readings would be.

My first on the list is "There's no place like here" by Cecelia Ahern, this author has already had a long list of bestsellers to her name...honestly speaking, I never heard of her til now...I've been out of bookstores too long that when Im in one, I usually have a hard time choosing what book to read and which author to trust. I just bought her book by chance, that's when I couldn't find the series I was looking for, but I don't regret buying Ahern's book...it was worth latenights on my bedsit..

Ahern is not quite the typical writer, she tends to thread more on whats beyond us....when our regard for life, love, loss is limited...she opens a venue for us to think more...and realizations occur just as you never expected it to happen.

Her line of thought is fresh and thought-provoking...every chapter is fast paced, lingering on the main characters' minds... so surprises are always on the next curb..
I am beginning to like Ahern, I know there's more to expect from her..I think I should buy her other books as well...

My favorite lines....

1. On the dark hour: "At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do: 1) break down, lose hope and refuse to go on while lying facedown on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2) laugh."

2. On losing a loved one : "Never easier, but a little less hard, perhaps. It's always at the forefront of my mind, every single waking and sleeping moment. The hurt begins to...not quite disappear, but it's as though it evaporates so that it's always there in the air around me, ready to rain down when I least expect it. Then when the hurt goes, anger takes place; when the anger runs out of steam, loneliness steps in to take over. It's a never-ending circle of emotions, every lost emotion being replaced by another."

3. On matters of the heart: "For a while, I gave up on him too until I became too lonely, too tired, and my heart became too sore from pretending I cared more about a whole series of nothings with nobodies rather than a single episode of something with somebody."

4. On missing someone: "I don't hear that laugh anymore..... It used to fill the house, it used to fill my heart, my head, all day. How can I not hear it anymore?"

5. On philosophical questions: " Why do bad things happen to good people? Within every bad thing I see good, and, likewise, within every good thing I see bad, however impossible it is to understand it or see it at the time. As humans we are the epitome of life; in life there is always balance. Life and death, male and female, good and bad, beautiful and ugly, win and lose, love and hate. Lost and found."

Time to go back to my bedsit....