Friday, June 14, 2013

Two AMAZING books.

In the last couple of months I had been finding it hard to find a book that I really enjoyed and wanted to put my nose into before falling asleep. After doing a little bit of research, I found these two amazing books.

I first read the Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion. He is a first time Australian author, although he has made a number of short films. The Rosie Project was originally a Screenplay and it won  the Australian Writers Guild / Inscription Award for Best Romantic Comedy Script in 2010. While he was waiting for The Rosie Project to be produced, he turned it into a novel which in June 2012 won the Victorian Premier’s award for an unpublished fiction manuscript.

The book is about a character, Don Tillman, who is trying to find his wife. Don is a genetics Professor and is extremely strict and structured in many parts of his life. To be thorough and not waste time with women that would not suit him, he designed a 16-page questionnaire to find this incredibly perfect woman. On the road to finding this wife he becomes entangled with  an incompatible woman, Rosie, who uses Don to help her find her father.

It is a great read. Very witty, hilarious and full of great moments! 




 The second book I found to read was The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce. This book was beautiful in so many ways.

Harold Fry is a retired man who receives a letter from a sick friend, dying of cancer. When going to send his reply to that letter he decides to keep walking so that she may live. He took only his boat shoes and wallet with him.

This story is challenged me to think of life in a different way and how important friends, family and marriage is.  I am finding it so difficult to describe because of just how powerful the messages are in the book.