Day 13. My Favorite Book(s)

I was confused of the theme: Favorite Book (singular) when in fact I have some remarkable favorite books. When it comes to favorite book series, I love almost Sophie Kinsella's books. Most of them depict the other side of woman: woman can be clumsy, insecure, indecisive, lost, not sure about what she wants in life, and having quarter life crisis. Kinsella writes them so damn well, woman as human being with flaws, not utopian image of Beauty Queen whatsoever.

Then there are three more candidates on my list: The Life of a Useless Man (Pecundang) by Maxim Gorky, Snow by Orhan Pamuk, and The Hours by Michael Cunningham. Finally my choice went to The Hours. The three books have sad ending, which is my favorite, but it is The Hours whose plot I remember the most because I watched its motion picture adaptation as well. 

You may say that The Hours is simply a follow-up of Virginia Woolf's work. But I love the way Cunningham knitted three different stories with quite unexpected ending. To be honest, I haven't read any Woolf's book. I want to, but I'm not that into classics. Maybe someday.

I highly recommend The Hours for you because the story is beautifully gloomy, but at the same time liberating. Something like that.