Throwback Books

It’s raining mercilessly and I love it. There’s something about the rain that makes me feel so calm and contented. Anyway, it’s not the rain that I want to talk about, but a particular memory from long ago that happened while it was raining so hard.

Book hunting.

It sounds a bit insane, I know. I could’ve just stayed at home and enjoyed cups of coffee as I sat by the window sill of my room watching the rain while That’s What She Said by the Backstreet Boys is playing in the background. But no. I went out, with my Converse sneakers and hoodie and searched for books. It was unusually raining in April, and I went to buy the books as a gift for myself on my birthday.

I won’t be talking about how many bookstores I went into just to find what I was looking for. I’ll just go straight into talking about the novels I bought.

Eleanor Rigby

Probably one of my all-time favorite books. My life used to be like Liz Dunn’s (the story’s main character). Loneliness is everywhere. But it was beyond overwhelming that happiness in the future was actually coming from the past that you tried so hard to forget. As Liz tried to live her life in solitude, an unexpected person from her past enters the scene. I wanted this book because it wasn’t just a good story or was relatable to my past life, but it was also one of my favorite Beatles songs.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The only novel I’ve read by Mark Haddon. It is about this boy with special needs, who also happens to be a math wiz! I am no expert in psychology, but I sure have read somewhere that children with special needs somehow end up prodigies. Anyway, this novel is written in the first person narrative, which was the boy name Christopher, and tells a story about his own investigation as to who killed their neighbor’s dog and why. And as he digs deeper into the case, he discovers a secret that his dad has tried to protect from him. The book shows that children like Christopher are not like what most of us think. They are incredibly witty and logical, in a simple way. After I finished it, I had a very good and improved idea about children with special needs.

These are just two books among the many others on my bookshelf that I can read over and over again. I am still wondering ’til now if I should make a review of all the books I’ve read. What do you think? 🙂