Log #1

Since Me Before You had been a great hit in both book and movie version, I decided to choose this as my first book for the semester. This book was talking about a girl called Louisa who worked for Will, a paralyzed rich man. At the beginning, they disliked each other a lot and didn’t want to see each other. As time went by, they began to understand that both of them had their own plight and eventually fell in love with one another.

So far from this book, there were two parts that I liked a lot and agree with a lot. After being paralyzed in an accident, Will told his mother that he wanted to end his life after six months of trying to live. It was not difficult to know why Will would have this kind of thought. He used to be so successful, but now he could only live by depending on other people, which made him really shameful and desperate about life. If I were Will, I would make the same decision as him because I didn’t want to become my family’s burden and live so painful.

Another part that I liked a lot was when Louisa and Will went to an orchestra concert together. Having been to a concert for the first time, Louisa was so immersed into the music and said this, “I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went”. I totally understood what Louisa was thinking at that moment. Every time when I was listening to my favorite music, I felt exactly the same way. No matter it was classical music or pop music, listening to them was like watching the stories behind the melody or the lyrics. Music had that super power that could change your mood and it was the best feeling in the world.

Now, I am super excited to see what is going to happen to Will and Louisa in the rest of the book.

Picture from: http://vanillaslumber.blogspot.tw/2016/04/book-review-me-before-you.html