The Pilot’s Wife—Review

I borrowed this book for the sake of reading. And I was interested about the title, since DL’s first ambition is a pilot. You know.

Well anyway this book, written by, is suffocating. Just…suffocating. It gets worse and worse and when you reach the point where Kathryn, the main character learnt of the truth that was hidden from her all the time, you’ll let go of a breath that you never thought you were holding.

And then the tears came.

Oh God I don’t even know why I picked this book in the first place.

It’s suffocating, and it makes me cry. And it makes me think, are all men that way?

Kathryn is a pilot’s wife, who was devastated when her husband died in a plane crash. She knew he was a good pilot, and it was not merely a pilot’s error. She tries to find out the truth about the crash, while trying to contain her grief, remembering the bittersweet past and moving on in her life with their daughter.

She remembered how he had fallen in love with her at first sight, how their age gap never troubled them, how sweet he had been to her. Some years after they were married, he would leave home for days, come home for a while and then leave again. He started to become busier, missed all of the important occasions, and when he was at home, he’d be fixed on his computer and TV. They got into more and more fights, but she ruled it all down to his fatigue and unpredictable working hours being a pilot.

Once he was gone, she began to find out about him, what he had been doing all along, and unearth some complicated and heart-wrenching issues…

Honestly, this is a tear-jerking novel. ><

Recommendation: 4 Stars

~Yuen~

Beautiful Creatures—Review

Stunning. It’s the only one word that can sum up this whole book. It’s very thick, 500 more pages, just for the first book. It’s the first of the Caster Chronicles series.


Written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, this book is about a mortal (or seem to be) sixteen-year-old boy who lived in a small Southern town called Gaitlin. One day a new girl came and the boy, Ethan, was shocked to find out that she was the girl that has been in his dreams all those time.


The girl, Lena, has a dark secret and superpowers that she’s trying to hide. Ethan who was falling in love with her was determined to find out what it is that’s bugging Lena and found out that he was going to find out more than he bargained for.


This is a deep, dark book that will entertain fans of dark fantasy perfectly. It is detailed and packed, with surprises and new information at every turn of the pages, and keeps one mesmerized until the end. Research prior to writing is obvious, and the authors seem to have excellent knowledge on superstitions and fantasy. History of Lena and Ethan’s families are also well-developed, served to readers at appropriate times.


The only downside is the ending, where it fell a little flat after all the anticipation. But the development of the story is good, and any writer would know that writing the middle part of any story is not easy.


All in all, this is a good-for-value book, with its many pages, interesting characters and original plot.


=) Happy reading, guys!


Recommendation: 5 Stars

~Yuen~

NaNoWriMo is here!! Again!!

And yes, November looms (I know...it's already nearing the end of the second week...)...and tens of thousands of budding writers and novelists are slaving away at their NaNoWriMo goals.
The NaNoWriMo forums are always exploding in November...it's not quite sleepy during other months (especially December when the fun is over), actually, but if you want more help, more ideas, ask in November.

For those who are still in the dark about what I'm saying...NaNoWriMo stands for
National Novel Writing Month.
Although I think they really should change it to International Novel Writing Month. I mean, it's CLEAR that this is a world-wide sensation, annually.

""National Novel Writing Month is an annual event where creative types around the world sit down at their desks on November 1st and try to bang out 50,000 words by the 30th. It began back in 1999 when director Chris Baty and 20 of his friends came up with the idea to write novels for the same reason more rebellious types start bands: they had nothing better to do and wanted to make some noise. Now in it's 11th year, with participants around the world numbering in the hundreds of thousands.""
Quoted from holynerdblog.blogspot.com

Well, it's basically that. There are no qualifications except one: you must be willing to try. There are no rules basically, it's just a fun activity. The goal is simple: Write a novel of at least 50,000 words in the 30days of November (not more, not less) and you will win the activity. Prizes? Nah, this is purely for self-satisfaction.


I'm a very lazy gal so I'm not sure if I'm even going to start another novel....still grieving over my lost data of TWO half-written novels. One of them was actually written in November (I never heard of NaNoWriMo then).


Well...I shall see...:P
Perhaps I could come up with a vague plot and flesh it out somehow. ><
It's HARD TO START A NOVEL FOR GOD'S SAKE.

Hardest Chapter of all...

And I never have enough time to think or write...anyway.
I am in awe of my younger self..who writes using pen and paper...pages and pages....
Now...please, forget it. I can't even find time to type words, let alone making my hand ache for writing??


I still have that passion for writing though...^^
It's what I do best. =)

~Yuen~