Source: Bought
Book Summary
Graham Larking and Ellie O'neill meet - albeit virtually- when graham accidentally sends Ellie an e-mail about his peg Wilbur. The two seventeen-year-olds strike up an email relationship, even thought they don't know each other's first name.
In a witty and unforgettable;e correspondence, Graham and Ellie share details about their lives, hopes, and fears. But they don't tell each other everything: Graham doesn't know the secret hidden in Ellie's family tree, and Ellie is unaware of Graham's life in the spotlight.
When Graham seizes and opportunity to spend in Ellie's tiny hometown of Henley, Maine, he takes their relationship from online to person. But can two people from such different worlds be together despite the odds stacked against them? (Source : Jennifer Smith)
Cee's Musings and Reflections
Happiness. Such a very broad yet beautiful notion to chew over, but does it really have its own face? If so, that leaves me wondering if how handsome he might be. Kidding around. ^_^ But then, it really got me questioning how does it look like?
How does happy look like?
Seems like a tough question to answer, right? So for the meantime, I'd like to leave that for you to mull over as to how does it looks like to you.
Let's first try to get into the minute, if they seem to be, details I noticed as I did lavish the book page by page:
a. the book starts with an email, a wrong-sent email of which I found it quite appealing as it as it seems to be the same spell cast to the readers by
Christian Grey and
Anastasia Steele;
b. and so the first two chapters become so enticing and page-turner;
c. the Male main character, Graham, stalks the female main character just like Christian Grey, himself, again;
d. the main characters have been exchanging their emails without them knowing their names;
e. Ellie sees right through Graham's eye just as how Anastasia to Christian's and
Allyson to Willem's;
f. having a novel being anchored to classical novels becomes a mainstream, this to has been anchored to a novel written by Herman Melville, Moby Dick;
g. "freckles on her nose" phrase has been used more than three times;
h. the -teen chapters took my feeling of giddiness, probably because they no longer exchange emails, which right away made me think it'll end in just a plain-vanilla way;
i. when the story has regained its spark, i right away thought to myself how wrong I was of saying it's a bit boring
j. for me, the ending is satisfactory, and I like the way it ended
So going back with how does really happy look like. If I were to associate "happy" or "happiness" into a person, I may say it would surely be a multi-faced individual. The rationale is as simple as this, my version of happiness may not be the same version or your happiness so is yours to mine. However, it comes in varied means. Sometimes happiness comes in a pack of candy, in a bunch of books, in a bouquet of flowers, in a simple "I love you", in the warmest hug, in the sincerest apology, by watching a movie or a sunset or even just waking up each day.
It is indeed not a difficult question however when answered the list can go from one specific place to the farthest one. Yes! not a difficult question but requires a thorough thinking as to what one's own happiness is/are.
Albeit there are so many grandiose ways that can make one happy, simple and little things can also paint happiness to a lot. And so I'd like you to take a glimpse of what really happy looks like for me with my all-the-time buddy. :)
So to us What Happy Looks Like. . .
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| . . .being together since 2007 |
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| . . . church vsiting |
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| . . . first flight together |
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| . . . first flight together |
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| . . . Boracay first-timers |
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| . . . fish-feeding |
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| . . . snorkeling |
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| . . . exploring this one among the many islands of Boracay |
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| . . . preparing for the Island hoping |
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| . . . beach bumming |
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| . . . geeting giddy for the night parties |
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| . . . pasalubong-buying :) |
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| . . . taking-off for a zipline adventure |
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| . . . pedalling in the aquatic bike |
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| . . . kayak-riding |
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| . . . infinity pool + sunset |
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| . . . infinity pool swimming |
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| . . . pirate adventure |
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| . . . Rome-visit "kuno" |
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| . . . eye-to-eye looking |
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| . . . above anything else, i think one among the many spices that can greatly make "happiness" happy is LOVE. :) |
Remarkable Lines from the Book
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| . . . a very witty and unique introduction of a story :) |
"There were places in the world where a movie shoot was nothing more than a nuisance, a bothersome interruption of real life."
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"Maybe there was something safe in not knowing, something that made it feel like all mundane questions you were usually required to ask were not all that important after all."
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| ". . . you could tell a lot about someone by the way they carried a secret - by how safe they kept it, how soon they told, the way they acted when they were trying to keep it from spilling out." |
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| "Being famous was like carrying around some kind of magic key; you could say something stupid or boring or you could say nothing at all, and all the girls still liked you." |
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| "Looks like the wrong kind of bait can get the right kind of fish." - Graham's Dad |
". . . it seemed impossible to work up to the big kiss when none of the preceedingly moments had been explored yet."
". . . chemistry wasn't something you could just create anyway." - Graham
"Childhood memories were like airplane luggage; no matter how far you were traveling or how long you needed them to last, you were only ever allowed two bags. And while those bags might hols a few hazy recollections - a diner with a jukebox at the table, being pushed on a swing set, the way it felt to be picked up and spun around -
it didn't seem enough to last a whole lifetime."
"Secrets never stay secret for very long."
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| "How are you supposed to find out what you're looking for if you're not convinced it's even out there?" |
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| "Most fortunes don't ever come true." |
Graham:
"How can you know it makes you happy if you've never experienced it?"
Ellie:
"There are different kinds of happy. Some kinds don't need any proof."
"Aren't movie stars supposed to be reckless and irresponsible?"
"The circus probably never thinks the towns where they stop are boring either."
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| . . . and here goes their corny joke. hahahah! |
"The geography of the thing wasn't the point; it didn't matter where they were:there was still too much space between them."
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| "No matter how long it's been or how far you've drifted, no matter how unknowable you might be, there were at least two people in the world whose job it was to see you, to find you, to recognize you and reel you back in. No matter what. |
". . . growing up was really nothing more than growing away: from your old life, from your old self, from all those thingsthat kept you tethered to your past."
". . . that was the thing about best friends; all the petty grievances and minor complaints were left behind as soon as something more important came along."
"There will be no miracles." - Ellie's Mom
"There was a miracle. We just didn't know it yet. The miracle was you." - Ellie's Mom
"Even in that diner, there must have been a sense of possibility. You just had to know where to look. Even a dirty window or stale apple pie could be a kind of miracle."
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| "I might not have a white horse, but I do have a portly pig." - Graham |
Thank you for the time you've spent going over this blog post! Keep updated for more of Jennifer Smith's books will soon be reviewed. *_*
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