Second Chance

"'Having a shared history is something you just can't create with the new ones. No matter how much you like them, it just isn't the same.'"

I loved it! Liked it a lot better than The Beach House. It was pretty similar in the way that the narrator changes from character to character. But I liked it a lot... I don't know why. I guess it was more chick lit-y or maybe I liked the story line more; five friends who drift apart through time and a sudden death of one of those friends brings them all together again. I'm not exactly sure, but I liked it! I wanna talk about the whole book, each characters' story, but I don't wanna give anything away so you'll just have to read it for yourself. Well now I'm reading Jemima J, also by Jane Green, which my manager at work let me borrow after she saw that I was reading Second Chance, saying that Jemima J is the best. Well I guess we'll find out soon enough. I realized that most of the chick lits I read are written by British people and the characters are usually British as well... well, they write really good chick lits.

The Reader

LOVE LOVE LOVED IT!! I didn't know the movie was originally a book until I saw it at Borders and I kind of wish I read it before watching the movie, because I really believe that I would've loved the movie as well, which is rare since they tend to butcher those movies that are based off of books, because you know, nothing can compare to words in a book. But I guess I'll never really know now, will I?

The book follows the movie almost perfectly, dialogue basically word for word (as translated at least, from German). There are some scenes that weren't in the movie, but they weren't that important or significant to the story line so it was okay to take them out. I applaud the director in this movie... or whoever made these executive decisions (well I mean the directing of the movie was great too). And what I love most about this book is the way that it's written, as a stream of consciousness from the narrator, Michael, which is also what makes it so easy to read, and it's only like 200 pages. So read it!! I highly recommend it and watch the movie as well. I loved both the movie and book!!

(And I just realized... Ralph Fiennes, who plays the older Michael in the movie, is also... Lord Voldemort!! I can totally see it now... I can't believe I didn't notice it before!)

Customers ask stupid questions

Incident at work on Friday, July 31, 2009 (also the last day of July... sad)

Customer: Oh! This is cute. Does it come in any other colors?

Me: No, I think that's the only color it comes in actually.

Customer: Does it come in black?!

Me: (sarcastically)... Oh wait, you know what, now that you asked me twice... yes yes it does come in other colors... maybe even green or yellow... whatever color you want.

... That's what I wanted to say, but lady, I believe I answered your second question with my response to your first question. The answer is still no, you obviously weren't listening to me.

The Big Question...

Something I've been asking myself lately... what am I doing with my life?!