PS, I Love You

Holly and Gerry met through mutual friends while still in junior high school. They became sweethearts as both recognized that they had met their soul mate. Eventually they married. Gary promised Holly that if he ever left her, he would leave her with a list. Two months later Gerry is dead. After fifteen plus years from when they first met, thirty years old Gerry was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

A few months after Gerry's death an almost thirty Holly remains grieving unable to leave her home. Her mom calls to tell her that she has a package addressed to Holly with the word List above her name. A stunned Holly realizes somehow Gerry marshaled his energy to give her ten months of lists to help regain her equilibrium because he loved her so much he wanted her to live. Now Holly begins to follow Gerry's list with one envelop opened per month as he reaches from beyond the grave to help his beloved return to the living. Title aside even if it is the salutation of each of Gerry's notes, PS, I LOVE YOU is a powerful character study that focuses on grieving and healing. Holly is a fantastic protagonist who begins to mend through the solace provided by Gerry.

Her weird family and her best friends provide sympathy, but cannot help her overcome her dread of life without Gerry. The hero is incredible as he knew when he will die and planned accordingly for what he could do to get his cherished Holly out of her depression and mourning and into the light of life. Cecelia Ahern provides a powerful drama that will leave no one dry-eyed.

Even though this book it very sad it will also leave you laughting and feeling happy at the end. Another must read.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

This morning i stumbled accross an old book i read about a year.

Writing his first novel from the point of view of an autistic 15-year-old, Mark Haddon takes the reader into the chaos of autism and creates a character of such empathy that many readers will begin to feel for the first time what it is like to live a life in which there are no filters to eliminate or order the millions of pieces of information that come to us through our senses every instant of the day. For the autistic person, most stimuli register with equal impact, and because these little pieces of information cannot usually be processed effectively, life becomes a very confusing mess of constantly competing signals.

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. Routine, order and predictability shelter him from the messy, wider world. Then, at fifteen, Christopher's carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbor's dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing.Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer and turns to his favorite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents' marriage. As he tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, we are drawn into the workings of Christopher's mind.And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon's choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotion. The effect is dazzling, making for a novel that is deeply funny, poignant, and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing is a mind that perceives the world literally.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is one of the freshest debuts in years: a comedy, a heartbreaker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read.

This is a must have read. Anyone who has not read it is missing out. So all you book lovers rush out and get it now!

Torn City

So, I've been playing this game for 46 days now. I really didn't think i would like it when a friend pointed me towards the site, but now I'm secretly embarrassed about how many times a day i log on just to play. Even worse is that I've set my alarm to go off in the middle of the night before because i know my energy bar will have reached its maximum,I'd be able to go to the gym and earn some great stats. The basic gist is that you have to go out, commit crimes, sell drugs and work out so that you can attack random people. Its a text based game with loads of stuff you can get into. My task at the moment is to unlock my dogs so that they can earn me some cash when they have been trained to fight. Anyway if you want to see what the fuss is about click on the link below and sign up. it might take a little while to understand what you do but i guarantee it will get you hooked.

http://www.torncity.com/register.php?XID=433109

Why oh why?

So i was searching on the net for an appropriate image to use on my blog. Considering the fact that my blog is called Little Princess Piggy i thought it would be a great idea to use a picture of Miss Piggy herself, so i search on Google images and what do i get? Perversion that's what. Look at what some cruel person has done to this innocent character. None other than having given her a Janet Jackson moment. I mean, why oh why do people have to do this to. Type in most cartoon characters and search for images and you can guarantee that you will find something awful! Tell me if you to have found any awful images when having done such an innocent search...