This book made me cry

"And why not? Why don't you just think about yourself, instead? Why would you sacrifice yourself for a country that doesn't even care about you when you can just walk away?"

 Two weeks ago, I went to  National Bookstore branch to buy BO's latest book (yeah, I haven't read that one yet). But instead, I saw this one and bought it.

And I am glad.

It's really rare for me to come across books that are so beautifully written, like this one.

Yes, the way Ms. Scy Sze had written it may sound like it is a novel from the Creative Corner of candymag.com. But the way she described every emotion Rizal and Valentina felt will either bring you bliss or break your heart. And she took me into a journey to the Calamba and Dapitan of the past, as well as the present Ateneo.

Just how did Ms. Sze conceived the plot of this book? It is so beautiful and well-researched that I actually want it to be a true story. Haha! Anyway, this book may be able to change one's view of our National Hero. Like me, I've always wondered why in the world did Rizal want to learn 20+ different languages? Why did he become the National playboy? Why did he love Ateneo more than UST? If only this novel is a true story, it would have been a plausible explanation to my why's.

I wish this book could be turned into a movie. (Knock, knock, Star Cinema? Regal Films? Indie prods?)


P.S. Rizal's photo at the back part of the book was... uuugh! WHY WASN'T I BORN IN THE 1860's??? He's fricking hoooot!!!

'Coz I'm SAGAN all my love for youuuuuu...

I can't believe it!!!

I just found a copy of Comet at Booksale SM North for only a hundred pesos! Hahaha!

Now, I already have Dragons of Eden, Cosmos, Contact, and this one. Still more Sagan books to go!

My checklist:

• Intelligent Life in the Universe
• The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
• Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
• Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are
• Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
• Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
• The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

I hope I can see copies of these in some Booksale (or any second-hand bookshops). I want to have a collection of books (real ones, not e-books) of Carl Sagan. 4 books as of now? Not bad, considering I only started about two months ago hunting Dr. Sagan's books.

Books again?!?

My original plan to go to SMX yesterday for the Visprint's WIT was kinda demoted to going to SM Fairview by myself. Oh, such a lonely girl I am! (Papa didn't allow me to go to SMX by myself, but he doesn't want to go with me. Most of my friends were busy, if not, they haven't replied to me.)

I really had nothing to do there, I just wanna go out of the house and have time to be lax. So I just brought my laptop and took advantage of the free Wi-Fi. Spammed my other blogspot with some poems, customized this and that's theme, chatted with elementary school friends over Facebook, read some blogs. Until my laptop's battery got drained. Heh.

Since I can't use my laptop anymore, I visited my favorite store in SM: Booksale. (Call me a geek.) After about two hours rummaging through the shelves, I found some interesting books.

All these for less than P200

• Kathleen O'neal Gear & Michael Gear's The Visitant
• "a novel of terrifying power about madness and murder eight hundred years ago."
• Dean Koontz's False Memory
• My first Dean Koontz novel. I've been seeing his works around Booksale since God-knows-when but I haven't picked up a single book of his until now. This one's about the fear of one's own self, or autophobia.
• Sara Hoskinson Frommer's Murder and Sullivan
• About a murder on the opening night of a theater production. A detective investigating this staged death.
• Keith Ablow's Denial
• "A series of grisly murders has forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger on the case of a lifetime and the flight of his life against a brutal killer with a horrific trademark."
• John Lescroart's Nothing But the Truth
• An attorney's hunt for the true killer of his wife's friend, so that he can save his wife from being convicted of protecting an accused killer.
• Willima Coughlin's The Stalking Man
• Two men's hunt for the serial killer of beautiful women.
• Malcom Rose's Traces: Roll Call
• My fourth Malcom Rose novel (though my first two were also a part of the Traces series), and third book of the Traces series. 16-year old Forensic Investigator Luke Harding is hot on the trail of a serial killer who uses weapons that leave no trace behind. The murderer is killing women who have only one thing in common - the same name, Emily Wonder.
• Benjamin Black's The Silver Swan
• The sequel of Christine Falls. (I haven't read Christine Falls yet. I've seen one in Booksale's branch in Robinson's Mall Novaliches but I didn't buy it at the time 'cause I did not have enough money. But I find the story really interesting.)

Why're most of these are in the detective genre? Haha. I'm not a fan of detective stories, eh. But I found them interesting.

I will not be able to start reading any of these, though. For one, I found Frankenstein on my shelf, which I bought some years ago, and I've decided to finish it before the final exams week. Also, I'm kinda busy with school works 'cause the sem's almost over, and professors are piling huge junks of requirements for completion. I will have to wait until the semestral break to start reading these. Or maybe until the Holiday break. Or maybe until the summer break.