Tuesday, May 29, 2007 4:47 PM

Just last Saturday, my sis asked me if I could come with her to a mall. A few weeks from now she’d be going back to school so she already had to buy those stuffs needed for her upcoming school activities. I threw no time to waste. As my sis was busy getting supplies that she might need this schoolyear, I grabbed the time I had to browse over the bookstore’s shelves and look for some books that some of my friends commended as a good read. But I already had one book in mind. A book that I am really quite interested to read for I really got moved with the quote that I actually got from it. And I even used that as my intro in my previous post. I could not locate it at first so I still had to go to the customer’s service section of the store just to have the saleslady get if for me. At last, the book that I have always wanted to buy (well, out of curiosity) is already in my hands. It’s entitled by the river piedra I sat down and wept by Paulo Coelho. It really isn’t that thick compared to other famous novels that some of my friends are actually fond of reading. And it also has a reasonable price that would not make me regret if ever I don’t get impressed and satisfied with how the author would have his story go about. Well, it wouldn’t be a bad try, I thought.



I got home at around 6 in the evening already and just right after changing into my house clothes, I grabbed the book, pulled down a chair and decided to start reading it. I could barely understand reading the first pages of the book. I felt that I had no choice but to go through them for they would soon bring me to a more significant part. And when I finally reached the third page, a story of a quite eccentric affair had begun to alight. I really got so engrossed with the novel that I even forgot to eat dinner. And I even promised myself that I won’t sleep ‘till I finally finish reading it. I didn’t feel any hunger or weariness as time ran faster than it usually could. And the farther the pages I get, the more thrilling the story becomes. Then I realized, this book is way better than those themes presented in the soap operas or telenovelas that the masses get usually hooked on. And even if I had too little interest in reading stuffs, this book had really changed my perspective and desire when it comes to reading. God! I am reading novels now. For I once thought that only a nerd would find time to read such stuff.



I finally finished the novel at around 11pm. That was the only time I felt so fatigued. My back ached after hours of sitting so stiff on my seat, my eyes got strained, and then my tummy grumbled. Haha. It was already midnight when I got to eat my dinner.



It was a really good read indeed! I got satisfied intellectually, emotionally and even spiritually. The book may be a fiction but it won’t fail to change thousands and thousand of people on the way they would see things, believe in the power of dreams, love and eventually go through their lives for the best that they could ever be!