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Belle and Sebastian - Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John

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Travel south until your skin turns, woman

Travel south until your skin turns brown

Put a language in your head and get on a train

And then come back to the one you love

Yeah, you're great, you're just part

Of this lifetime of dreaming

That extends to the heart

Of this long summer feeling

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The best place in the world is in the center of God's will. Find yourself there and MAKE ME PROUD.

                                                           J.Cruz

JUST BEFORE THIS LONG, ODD SUMMER ENDS

I stumbled upon Jenny Han's Summer series once upon a sappy night.
And with utter desperation, I tried to settle with quotes from the book, for the mean time, so I hope.

In the wishlist:

The Summer I Turned Pretty

• "For me, it was almost Winter didn't count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in Summers."
• "Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog."
• "Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?"

It's Not Summer Without You

• "I will never look at you the same way ever again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back everytime you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway."
• "I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will."
• "How do you regret on of the best nights of your entire life? You don't. You remember every word, every look. Even when it hurts, you still remember."

We'll Always Have Summer

• "Firsts were important."
• "But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing. Those feelings, they've been there all along. All the time. I had to face it. He was part of my DNA."
• "I knew I had to be careful. I had to keep my distance. If she knew how much I still cared, it was all over. I wouldn't be able to walk away again. The first time was hard enough."
• "I'd stayed away for two years. I had to. I knew I shouldn't even be at the Summer house,... it was dangerous."

I know these books carry a pocketful of risks, just because. Let me have them, anyway. 

CURRENTLY

Watching The Simpsons like a boss! :-D

APRIL'S READ: NICK HORNBY'S JULIET, NAKED

A graduation gift from a v. good friend,  Frauleine. :-)

What do you do if you think you've wasted fifteen years of your life? 

This is a story of two people who have reached the end of the road after quite realising that they have spent more than a decade of their lives by the wasteland instead of wonderland and being brought together by an album of crappy songs.

Simply trying to account someone's days, wondering where they had all gone and what have been missed.

Well, for Tucker Crowe and Annie Platt, that's the rub. 

This book's one that will fit under the Pop Culture shelf. An iPod Lit to be exact. If you happen to know the background of the author, Nick Hornby, you'll probably know the themes of his works: Music. Pop Culture. Messy relationships. So this book goes with all of the contents above. 

Here are some of the notes that I've written as I was reading:

• The mystery of Tucker, his MIA years and Annie's sense of reality.
• Tucker Crowe is a monumental figure of speech till he was resurrected on Chapter 4
• The redeeming and mending power of music.
• The growing catch of how Tucker would prove his identity to someone while for how many years he's been physically detached to his fans and all that. Sadly, he had let other people speak in his behalf without him attesting or denying a single statement-- these things put him in danger.
• Funny logical conversations about someone's death with a kid.
• Annie's question of Tucker's experience sparked or challenged him to prove his existence is the same as telling your boyrfriend, "You don't love me, do you?" Just to let him prove that he loves you. A typical reverse psych. 
• Internet myths and crepes courtesy of WIKIPEDIA. Haha! This, I find funny. 
• Ways on how to get your partner out of your life and many other questionable love disasters

There's actually another main character here, Duncan (Annie's long-time partner and an obsessed Tucker Crowe freak) but I'm such a prejudice that I don't want to focus on him cos he's boring. 

Anyway, the whole plot is about the reality of things that we never want to be or happen. This is life at its complexed measure that we try to untangle. Oh yes, this is the naked truth. 

Score:    

P.S.

One of the sweetest dedications ever:

Erika,
May this book enlighten you as you have enlightened me.
May this book teach you as you have taught me.
May you love this book as you have loved me.

This may not be one of the books that I would like to give you but at least I know you want it.
And that's the point, right?
Let me give you your first Hornby book. Enjoy!

Congratulations and thank you.
Let's not end everything at PICC.
I love you!
-Frau Villanueva"

#and there goes the BIG smile on my siopao face. :-)

MASTER, THE TEMPEST IS RAGING

And You said, 

"I know that this will hurt but if I don’t break your heart, things will just get worse."

THE ART OF LETTING IT OUT

I came here for a need-- something that circles around my throat.
I came here for one reason and a hundred more.
I came here to tell You that I am weak.
Just to admit my weakness, You promised me strength.
Just to show you my heart opened to Your will, You promised me Your everlasting love.
Lead me, show me Thy way.
Guide my faltering steps, for without You, I'll go astray.
Show me Your hands of mercy and abound me with Your grace.

Here and always, I come as I am.