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Resono - Cupar Silo - 21st May 2016

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Resono - 4th June 2016 - St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh

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Review/The Tourist

Just finished reading The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer and no, this is not about the movie with Johnny Depp. This is a spy novel which is something that I seldom read because I simply can't understand what they are talking about. Think The Bourne Supremacy, all the terms used in the book was just too confusing. I don't watched enough American dramas to be informed about the CIA and FBI. (ˇ_ˇ) So back to this book, it started out as a really typical kind of book (well at least for me), the government, scandals and dirty jobs, I was close to giving up at half of the book but since I need to kill time during work, I continued with the book. Luckily, it was a good choice because the book got interesting at the back! Milo Weaver has been framed and had to find the truth and clear his name. Who can he trust? How is he going to get physical evidence? What can he do to prove his innocence to his wife and daughter? With a twist at the people whom he can trust and more uncertainties, it is a good read overall! Talking about books, make me think of the 50 book challenge which I wanted to do at the start of 2013. But I think Ii sort of failed.... SO, I'm back with another 50 Book challenge for 2014 and hopefully I can hit my target! And I will be doing book review for each book that I've done in order to train my writing skills. Haha. So a short post for a book that I've just read and hopefully more post to come in the future. (￣ˇ￣)

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Review/Jane Eyre

I was quite shocked that I actually finished this book! But nonetheless, this is a book not to be missed. (Ok why does it sound like some advert HAHA) I'm never a literature person, because I can't simply understand the language, themes and motifs. Shakespeare is my biggest enemy. Ok maybe Roald Dahl also... I think I kinda failed my literature a few times, opps. Therefore I was a little hesitant to start on "Jane Eyre", but then I saw that there was a movie with the same title so it shouldn't be that bad right? Hence I downloaded the ebook, thinking that I can just read the book when I'm on the train (to kill time instead of playing candy crush). The starting made me really angry at how Jane was treated in her family/relatives but then through there I could see that Jane was a tough girl. She made it through and went to Lowood institution and finally Thornfield hall. And here comes our Mr Rochester! (Think grumpy old man HAHA He's really not the prince charming type manzxzx) I thought that their language was really cute because they were so polite in every way and by that I meant, "Would you lend me your shoulder as a crutch?" and "Are you trying to drown me, Jane Eyre?" I was so amused by their dialogs in the book. We really lack courtesy nowadays sigh. So that's why I'm really drawn to this book and eventually I couldn't resist the temptation but to buy the hard copy book. (And it was for 5bucks only?) And that's a really good choice because I really like this book. I think it shows the strong and independent character of Jane Eyre. She is definitely someone that I want to look up to. I guess there might be similarities between this book and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice? But I haven't read the book yet so I can't say anything about it. But this book opens up my mind to classics and I am willing to consider other classics as my reading option. Talking about that, I still have 3 classics on my bookshelf, oh no. Alice in the wonderland, Sherlock Holmes and the phantom of the opera... This book is really not so much on love even though there were quite a lot of description on Mr Rochester and Jane, but it's actually more on social class, religion, gender relations and feminism. I would totally take my time to read it through again! (That being said, I guess I would aim to clear my unread books before starting on this book again) HAHA and time to watch the movie and the drama online!

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Review/The fault in our stars

Always heard how good was this book by other friends and made me wonder how good can this book be? Couldn't afford to buy this book and hence end up borrowing from my friend.

But oh well, throughout the 3/4 of the book, it felt like a chick lit/teenager book, but then things start to get serious at the back and i guess i have to agree with some of the points made in this book.

The part that struck me most was gus's death and how people started to post on his social media. Because of a recent encounter with such incident (well indirectly) i think i managed to really connect with hazel in the book. So after all, the book was alright? i guess. Perhaps i need to read his other books to really get hold of what John Green is trying to write. (because you need to understand an author via his best book, or his normal books) which often happen to me because i like to give authors many many chances before i really get pissed off and throw their books away(which is not so frequent)

So maybe I'll give a chance to john green again and try to see what kind of surprises he can give me, but all in all, after all the hype about his books, i guess this book didn't score pretty high in my list.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

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Review/白夜行

花了两个月终于把白夜行给看完了，我还真是失败呢〒▽〒

当初在看《嫌疑犯X的献身》时，便想看看东野圭吾的其它作品（话说我有一个习惯，就是如果不是很疯狂地喜欢一个作家，就会去看他最好的几个作品，才做决定。如果真的是很喜欢的话，就会不管三七二十一把全部作品给看完）结果也是等到一年多后才有机会细心阅读这本书。

看完后的那种震撼，也让我感觉到什么是现实的残酷，什么事绝望，什么是爱情。穿越小说的那种后宫戏跟这个比起来逊色多了。在前半部时，会觉得这些人物太多了，也不能明显地看到两个主角的互动，有点觉得是两个故事的短片小说（村上春树的1Q84也是这样，话说花了一年多我还没看完，那三本还在书柜里悠闲着~）

故事慢慢进入精彩的部分，有越多的证据显示唐澤雪穂并不是那么简单，但我却又不想承认她是这样的人。越往后看，我心越纠结，为什么女神是这样的人啊！心寒啊！！我脆弱的心灵有点受不了了。(￣﹏￣)　到最后男主角热烈牺牲了~女主还说不认识他！尼玛！！！！我讨厌她！！！（╯－＿－）╯╧╧

不过看着唐澤雪穂也觉得她已经没有得再回头了，她的生命可真的没有一丝光芒。但是现在的她到底要追求些什么呢？可悲啊~~

我的天空里没有太阳，总是黑夜，但并不暗，因为有东西代替了太阳。虽然没有太阳那么明亮，但对我来说已经足够。凭借着这份光，我便能把黑夜当成白天。我从来就没有太阳，所以不怕失去。

或许东野圭吾不会成为我疯狂追书的作者，但是故事里对感情，对绝望的细腻描写，我还是很欣赏的。希望以后有更多机会阅读他的作品！

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