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After You By Jojo Moyes

After You by Jojo Moyes After You (Me Before You #2) Author : Jojo Moyes Year      : 2015 Publisher : Penguins Language : English *** “You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. But I hope you feel a bit exhilarated too. Live boldly. Push yourself. Don’t settle. Just live well. Just live. Love, Will.” How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can’t help but feel she’s right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. T...

What I talk about When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

Murakami on Sunday Morning Reading Murakami's is like a home where my soul should be. Moreover, when it is a memoir of the author his self, then it is a wonderland, (for me it is) the happiest place on earth. What I talk about When I Talk About Running is definitely not kinda book I expected to be. It is not collections of short stories but a memoir-or rather I say shorter than that. For avid fans of Murakami, surely this is like the A-book to expertise Murakami's brain work-okay i am exaggerating,to put expertise is overachieving. Just like Murakami's said in afterword: " I see this book as kind if memoir. Not something as grand as personal history "-p.176 Just like its title,  this book is about Murakami's muse on running and Triathlon. Murakami is trying to introduce us a perspective from a runner whom in the same time author. He started his running activities when he started to writing novel in order to balance his soul. Which means later on his ...