'One Day' David Nicholls

Brilliant-absolutely brilliant! Not a bad word to say against it really.

Fit every shoe of what a book like this is supposed to be like. Funny, witty-brilliant, quick dialog. So well written! Took me by surprise to be honest-although it has only gotten good reviews.

It never slowed down-keeping a natural flow and a steady pace through out the book. At first my initial reaction was to criticize the back and forth narrative between the characters. Thinking: 'that's not allowed, you have to stay with one character until the end of a paragraph or the end of a chapter.' But he didn't. The characters were practically speaking on top of each other. And it worked so well, such a flow of multiple characters consciousness.

The story line was very good as well and only once did i know what was going to happen, but surprisingly not towards the end. If a book manages to do this to me it makes me very happy.

I liked Emma and Dexter very much as well, they weren't too exaggerated they weren't too much, but simple and very realistic.

At times I got vibes of Bridget Jones Diary, kind of the same-trying to find a partner, trying to find the right career angle.

I wondered if David Nicholls might have portrayed himself more in Emma than in Dexter-or was he possibly a little bit of both? His own life was seen to be a struggle in two different ways and in two different characters. Possibly at two different times of his life?

Same with the other characters in the book -are they portraying real life characters? As he mentions at the end that some of the things which are used in the book actually come from things which his friends have said.

There are not many descriptions, no explanations, and even few metaphors. The scenerey is described through the characters actions and dialog-almost like a screen play....ahah! Of course! It says that he has written loads of screen plays! Of course he's going to have a break through as a Hollywood screen play writer-this book is going to become a movie! I can't believe i didn't see it earlier!! He could have used that in the book, but i guess that would be jinxing it a bit.

I can't do it...

That's such a negative thought.

How is it that we are so different? And why is it that we always want to be like someone else? Why do some people have no difficulty with some things while others will struggle with it their whole lives?

There are people out there who simply glance at a text and they've memorized it and understood it. Me? It takes forever. I need to sit down and take in every word. I won't remember it and I won't understand it. I need to work twice as hard in everything I do. And even then i struggle. I have a tendency to know this about myself, but still it catches me off guard, and sometimes I will use this to give up.

How come yet again everyone is so far ahead of me? I've read everything I can see, listened to everything I've heard of and done everything I can afford to do-and yet I'm so far behind. Although...is this true? Have I? Have I really struggled or am I simply moaning? Things don't come easy. We all have to work hard in achieving what we want. But, is it just me or do some things come easier for others and more difficult for me? I don't like moaning and I don't want to make up excuses. Oh, I'm dyslexic-I can't do that so I'm not going to even try!

I don't understand...again...

If I do have difficulties in understanding and learning things then what CAN I do? Still waiting to find out I guess...

What angers me the most are these people for whom everything is so easy and then they don't do anything with it! They just have to read one thing once or do one thing once or listen to something once and they understand it. Politics, maths, writing, reading, languages-there is so much... But then they don't do anything with it!!!! They simply sit at home or have some dead end job! While I'm here working my ass off to understand the simplest things! Why can I not have some of their talents? I want to know and understand the things which they know and understand.

I just hope, although sometimes I'm not so sure, that maybe they struggle with things in which I'm good at. I don't know what though.