Books Recommendations

Today, I have 4 books to recommend. Trust me, these are really nice books

The first two books are “A Child Called ‘IT’” and “The Lost Boy” by Dave Pelzer.

I borrowed these from my sister who borrowed them from her friends. I put these two books together because they are actually telling the same story but only some parts are not found in another book. Actually, there is another book of the same story by the same author which is called “A Man Named Dave”. But, I could not find it in the library nor has my sister borrowed it from her friend.

Basically, the author himself is the one who has being through everything he had written. If I am not mistaken, ever since about 7 year-old, he was already being abused by his own mother. After reading the second book, I still could not find out the reason for that and what is worse is that his sibling were not being treated in this way. First, his mother did not allow him to eat until he had finished all his task-housework but with good standard. Even so, he might not be allowed to unless he behaved himself well (to his mother's standard). Seriously, he was quite okay as a child and a student. Sometimes, he did not have any food for 2-3 days. There was a time where he did not have any for up to 10days.

His “punishments” were being burned on top of the stove, sat on his hands for quite a number of hours, not allowed to look into the eyes of his mother and siblings when talking, not allowed to talk to them unless necessary, occasionally he was given left over from his siblings, wore the same outfit to school everyday, faced down in a bathtub filled with cold water, being locked in the bathroom having to smell two mixtures of chemicals which are definitely horrid, his mother threw a soiled diapers on his face and forced him to eat the shit (I think he did) and forced to vomit out everyday after school to see if he had stolen any food (At once or even a few times, he had to swallow the vomited food which really sounded totally disgusting)

He did not have any friends in school because he wore the same outfit to school and stink and stole food from his classmates. At 12, he was saved by his teachers and a policeman who ended his terrible life. But, it was not all because he was sent to a home for children like him. Then, later sent to foster home and became foster child. In the houses he stayed at, there lived children whose parents abandoned them. He had 5 foster homes. At that time, people did not really accept foster children for they thought that all the foster children must have done something terribly wrong. Anyway, he went through all the struggles and now is a retired Air Force aircrew member and has a son. Seriously, he is really very brave. I salute to his courage.

I think these two books are good for parents and future parents. I seriously think that no matter how naughty your children are, you should not hit them (Okay. Perhaps only when they are really out of control). By hitting them, they would not know or understand what went wrong and learnt from their mistakes and even scared of you. Slowly, they might start to rebel and the worse is you might find it more difficult to understand them. Each and every child has their own pride like you. You do not have any right to disregard their pride or disrespect them because they are human like you. I believe that when you commit a mistake, you would appreciate that that person talks to you patiently and explains everything.


Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks

Yes, you did not see wrongly, it is by two authors-they are brothers. Basically, this book tells you about the three weeks spent around the world with his brother and his childhood till how he becomes an author. Actually, what attracted me the most is how they went through life and death? Like what I have mentioned before, life and death is part and parcel of life. Be it whether you are brave or not, you still have to face it. It is a sad thing about life. Ha. I do not know about others. My imaginations often run very wild. I even imagined what would happen if my closest kin - my parents and sister when they passed away one day. I will not deny that I actually ended up crying very badly after that. I imagined that for a number of times before but it always ended up the same. Time passes so fast that I fear that I have to reach that very soon.

Anyway, from this book, I came to realise how some of his books came about (as in how he drew his inspiration from)

For “A Walk To Remember”, the main character featured his sister. His sister had passed away due to brain tumor.

For “Message in a Bottle”, he drew his inspiration from his father. His father had a very time getting over the death of mother.

For “The Rescue”, he drew his inspiration from his second son.

For “A bend in the Road”, he drew his inspiration from his brother-in-law-his sister’s husband-a widower at that time.

All in all, you have to read this to know why. =)

I learned something from this book. What you want and what you get are two different things.


Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

This story actually tells me about true love. I do not really know how to summarize this but I would say that the main character sacrificed something to allow the woman he loved most to get real happiness.


I know this entry is very long. Thanks for reading through and your patience. =)

A bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks

This is another recommendation of book. I do not know if it bores others but I seriously love to read so much. My main speaking language is Mandarin; ironically, I do not like to read Chinese books. Despite reading so many English books (reasonably high?), writing all my entries of my blog in proper English and typing proper English on MSN, my English is still so weak. =(

Let me get back to the main topic. I quite like this story because some of the descriptions allowed me to imagine the surrounding and the scenes clearly. There was a part about an accident and there was a description about the victim and trust me, I could imagine it and thought to myself “oh my...this is...scary” Actually, I do not know if I am right to say that the whole book is about the accident (on finding out the murderer). The narrator told his life story and this secret (the accident). He was indirectly the murderer of the victim and his sister and the victim’s husband were later in loved. This is very complicated, right? When I read this part which is the later part of the book, I was so shocked to find out because his sister was already together with the victim’s husband. But, anyway, like most endings, they got together which initially I thought they would not because of the hatred in the victim’s husband. He did not know how to face her.


Someone says “please give me some strength for me to be always strong and independent and not pretentious”
The other person says “please tell me that life is going to get better and lead like a normal person should”
Another person says “please tell me that even when the sky falls, I am not going to fall”
That person says “please tell me that I could enjoy life like what others could”
This person says “please tell me that everything could end at this very second and start a new chapter”
Somebody says “please tell me that there is at least two consecutive days where no unhappiness is on the mind”
It says “please tell me that all these could happen for at least one week.”
Someone asks “Am I asking for too much?”