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This is a sticky post from my longest running blogspot, which I also uploaded in my vox account. Hopefully by the end of the week I will be able to come up with a book review of Kate Mosse’s The Sepulchre. Anyhow, here’s one book review I have on one of Nicolas Spark’s novel written back in February 4, 2009.

The Choice

I made a resolution to start reading again and hopefully finish one each month for this year. It has been a long time, 2 years I guess, no make that 3, when I was very religious about reading books. When I became pregnant, I suddenly lost interest in reading books, and sometimes I wonder whether it has something to do with the fact that I gave birth to a boy. I know, it sounds silly but sometimes when you listen to what all the old folks are saying about pregnancy and the difference when you’re having a boy or a girl. Anyway, going back to reading, since I made this pact to go back and rekindle my love affair with reading, in the same way I’m rekindling my love affair with blogs, I decided its high time to finally read one of the books my husband gifted me with for my birthday back in 2007.

When I started reading this novel, somehow I recognized quite a few things that were put together in a novel I’ve read before. Places like Beaufort and South Carolina and the way the author described the laidback lifestyle of the people in the South (of U.S.). Then I realized I was reading a novel by Nicholas Sparks. This is not a review; I’ve yet to finish the book since I still have a number of chapters to finish. Although it could be said that Nicholas Spark’s novels are quite predictable – the plot, the setting and the life style of the characters, I found myself still drawn to this book. I found myself not minding reading past my bed time, promising myself that I’d just finish just one more chapter, only to say that again after I finish the current chapter I initially promised myself to be the last before catching up on some shut eye. While on the MRT earlier, where I was fortunate enough to get a seat during a rush hour, I hurriedly opened the book to where my book mark is and started reading. When I alighted from the train, I was trying to figure out what draws me to this book. And then I realized that it was how Mr. Sparks profiles his lead male character in the story. They’re the kind of men a woman would like to end up with – the kind that could engage a woman in a witty banter, who’d be interested in gazing at the stars on summer nights, who loves children and dogs, and most of all, the kind of man whose love is not dulled by the trivialities of the succeeding years, but is still as alive and exciting as the first days of falling in love – the kind that loves her woman more that her woman could ever reciprocate that love. And yes, that’s what makes me read his novels, knowing that a man wrote the book, means that a man could love that way.

It was a scorching Saturday afternoon and the hubby asked me to go with him at SM Marikina to purchase some things at the ACE Hardware. I said yes since he obliged to go to the wet and dry market prior to heading to the mall. It was rather unplanned. After almost three years of not watching anything in movie theaters, I all of a sudden thought of watching a movie to de-stress. We became so accustomed to downloading movies and watching right at the comfort of our own home in order to make good use of what we pay for our DSL, that we’ve totally abandoned our love for watching movies in the malls. On top of that we don’t have to put up with other movie goers who has a habit of talking out loud amongst themselves when watching a movie. But like what I said, last Saturday was different. I feel so stressed out in the office that I begged my husband to treat me to the movies.

We don’t have time to actually watch tv at home that I don’t know anything about the movies that are shown then. The most that I could do is to look at the movie posters and hope I get a good clue on whether it’s worth watching or not. So I chose one that my husband will get to enjoy too. He was rather surprised when I said I want to watch it because he was probably thinking I’d pick either The Proposal or The Time Traveller’s Wife. But remember I said I wanted to de-stress, and remembering those 2 people in the office that I so would like to blot out from the surface of the earth then and still now, I felt that watching the Joes take on their opponents will at least give me satisfaction, thinking that the cobras were Aling Mila and Nanette. Oh God sorry. I’m being mean.

So we went in early, so we could watch the trailers of upcoming movies. After several trailers, the movie finally started with a flashback. Ooops let me leave it at that, I don’t want to put spoilers in my blog for those of you who haven’t watched it yet, just in case there’s still some of you who haven’t. Anyway, after the flashback came the demonstration of what the Nanotechnology is all about and on to the signed business deal. After which came the fight scenes right away which kept me glued in to watching the story.

The Joes

The Joes rescued the 2 soldiers who survived the encounter with then “unknown enemies” during their attempt to recover the war heads.

The effects and the fight scenes are very impressive, considering the idea of having a gigantic safe house, base, factory, laboratory all rolled into one, in the arctic is rather futuristic and fascinating at the same time. Although with the advancement of technology, it is something that you cannot fully say far fetched.

Scarlet and the black actor (pardon me for being too lazy to google his name) make a pretty good couple in the movie. Scarlet is actually smoking hot and I’m sure a lot of guys out there would definitely agree. Over all, I would say it is a good movie, despite the rumors that the story has been changed. Nonetheless, I like the movie over all, it was a worth the money we paid for it and we will surely troop to the theater again if there will be a sequel to it!