the chocolate run...

its been a veryyy long time since i felt this way about a book. the last time that i couldnt put a book down was with "his n hers". i bought it in london heathrow on my way back to malaysia last summer. the thing with me is, i was never patient to wait for the ending. i usually read the book either by read the ending halfway through the book or i just skip lots of pages so that i can reached the ending sooner. and when i had known the ending i start reading it once again line by line, word by word, without skipping a single page. even with a very good book as his n hers i have to rush it. and it had been the best book i ever read up until now, up until the chocolate run. his n hers by mike gayle is the most romantic book ever, if only the 1/4 of the last part of the book havent been boring and if only the ending havent been so shite. why mike why? why mr gayle why do u have to ruin the perfect book by writing something like that as the ending?

ok ok forget about his n hers, focus on the chocolate run. let me tell u why i bought the book. its because of the author. i first read the book by dorothy koomson few years ago, entitled "my best friend's girl". that was actually her third novel. the book was good, really good in fact. n then last year in the summer, i saw her new book; "marshmallows for breakfast". that one was also brilliant, as expected from her. i like her writing, its haunting, its the type of story that lingered around your head for a few days after reading it. then come out her first novel (they're republishing it i supposed), well that one is a bit boring, to be honest i havent finished reading it yet. haha i will after this, maybe on my spring break. that was her first novel so i guess i can forgived her. few weeks before, i went to eason and i saw the chocolate run on the shelf, but i restrained myself from buying it, with what i have two other books that i havent finished reading at home. but yesterday i was at tesco and wtf? the book was super cheap, only 5.95 so i bought it without any expectation or without any plan on reading it anytime soon. just to complete my collection. (yay! i got all her novels now)

why i start reading it when i said i dont have any plan to do that anytime soon? because its saturday and the weather is so beautiful outside, n because i dont want the sunny morning to be a waste, i figured that i should do my old time abandoned-for-so-long-time hobby, involving me reading a book with a cup of coffee by my side and every few minutes glancing at the window, admiring the weather. n then the book shows me its magical side, i just cant simply put it down. n this time i was patient. real patient. i was reading the book word by word, line by line, page by page. n damn! the book is so magical that i actually have a very good time reading it, i laughed, giggled as if i was spending time with an imaginary boyfriend (i used the word imaginary since i have never ever have a boyfriend. but i reckoned maybe this is the feeling that i would get if i get to spend time with ___ boyfriend. <my/a/your/her/the neighbour's/my friend's; filled the spaces with whatever word u think appropriate> i'm actually comparing reading a book with spending time with boyfriend??? pathetic!) but seriously dorothy koomson is a fucking genius. i thought only mike gayle can be as observant and as funny. but dorothy, being a girl/woman get my double respect for able to write such a total enjoyable book. her jokes is very very funny. her words, comparing love and life to chocolate, is very true! like for example, she said: true strength is being able to eat a bar of chocolate without feeling guilty. hah! take that! its like a slap on the face! nowadays i used to feel guilty almost every time i eat. dem! its only a matter of time i'll be a bulimic or anorexic. (ok, anybody who know me would know that was a total lie. was it?? :P) n she picture the guy in the book being madly deeply in love with the girl that he actually cried a few times, makes me believe that not all guy are bastards. (but the guy is a bastard at first, then he become very2 sweet) n the insecurity of we girl have, and all the weird things that we girl obsessed about, freaked about, insanely think about, is very well put and described. that bit i like the most, it makes me feel like i'm not a paranoid after all. i'm not going to write a synopsis about the book in my post. i'm too lazy to do that.

p/s: i actually had stop reading love story after i read dorothy's work but this is an exception. (i dont even know its a love story before buying it, judging from her more recent work it was very far from love story, so i just assumed that its not) besides she wrote it before i read the previous two!