Long time no post

One of the books I finished whilst our family stayed in Baguio (just two nights, and one glorious day of sleeping and reading) was Ian McEwan's "On Chesil Beach", and I am beginning to wonder if he's written anything with a happy ending for a change. :) Sa bagay... it's just the second book of his that I've read, the other one being "Atonement."

(Insert story: Talk about being a loser, I'm the only one in the family who didn't watch the film. Like a good girl, I stayed in a coffee shop and reviewed for two exams scheduled the following day while they watched the film without me. *sniff* The things we students are forced to do...)

POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD! Okay, you have been forewarned...

I wanted so badly for the novel to have a happy ending. You see, I identified with the female protagonist straightaway. She was around my age, and a classical musician to boot!

It tells of a young couple's honeymoon, and of the tragic events that followed... tragic in the sense that they could have had such joy, it was already within their grasp! But the man was lacking in trust and patience, and so he let the woman go that fateful night and proceeded to live a lonely, unremarkable life.

Here's an excerpt from the last couple of pages (when the man was reminiscing, near the end of his life):

"... Perhaps if he had stayed with her, he would have been more focused and ambitious about his own life... Now, of course, he saw that her self-effacing proposal was quite irrelevant. All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. Love and patience -- if only he had them both at once -- would surely have seen them both through. And then what unborn children might have had their chances, what young girl might have become his loved familiar? This is how the entire course of a life can be changed -- by doing nothing. On Chesil Beach he could have called out... the sound of his voice would have been a deliverance, and she would have turned back. Instead, he stood in cold and righteous silence..."

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"This is how the entire course of a life can be changed -- by doing nothing..."

The young maiden thinks: "Yes, yes, how right! If I am to do nothing, happiness will not be mine! And so I need to do something drastic, something extraordinary that would reveal the intensity of my feelings for the man that I love!"

But there is another side...

"Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires." Song of Solomon 8:4

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I got this from orgmate TJ. This looks fun!

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Haha. I've missed blogging. :)

Have a blessed Easter Sunday tomorrow!