Book Review: P.S. I Love You

Well, with a title like that, you know it's gonna be a major chick flick, I mean book. Wait a minute...yes this book cover is a picture from the movie. The problem with this book is that it is probably much better as a movie and much cheezier as a book. See, with a chick flick you can take a little bit more cheez, but not with a book. You want some meat, some tapestry threads weaving in an out, some character development, some interesting twists. Not the case with this book, in fact, I am still wondering how the book got to be so long with so many pointless pages. Shouldn't someone have edited it and at least said, cut the crap, develop the characters?! Well, I guess the author, Cecilia Ahern did not learn what we did in High School which was summed up in a couple of famous quotes: "Brevity is the soul of wit."-William Shakespeare and another one which paraphrased sounds like: "The art of good writing is never using two words when one will suffice."-No Clue who said it other than my history teacher.

So what is the deal with the book? Sentimental fluff based on the death of a young girl's hubby from a brain tumor who before he died wrote a series of notes for her to open for 10 months after his death. In each one, she is living for what he is telling her to do, little fun things and big tough things like getting a job. each one she does while life around her is moving ahead especially with her friends. It sounds interesting but really it is too fluffy and things happen to predictably and unrealistically that it just ends up being trite instead of meaningful. That's what I think! But I have heard that the movie is ok, so I might check that out at some point to compare. For now I am no to a more intellectually stimulating book....To Be Continued