Foot and Fire

Love and other foreign words Erin McCahan Speak, 2014 This young adult novel came to my hands when I ordered online for the autobio of Jackie Chan. Of course, I love the title.  Anything about words capture me. And the author did not fail me in grabbing her book though the age-appropriateness (or mental or emotional appropriateness) of this book is just so far behind me.  I enjoyed the book though I got the ending early on because as I said, I am far ahead for this kind.  There are finest points in the book dissecting  "language of all sorts" that only a teenager like Josie can come up with which I wanted to quote here but I rather not because they are the icing to this piece.  Coming-of-age, over-thinking, experiencing love and lost friendships, STYX (No, I'm more of Bread person). This is a warm read for a day. 

The Time Traveler’s Wife By Audrey Niffenegger 2003, debut novel I saw this movie (2009) a long time ago and wanted to read the book right away. The story line is so compelling that I wanted to deeply connect with the book from which the movie was based. It appears that this was the debut novel of the author, and I admired her writing more for a very good start. I have not yet checked whether she has other titles under her name. I am so drunken by the no-fuss storytelling of a raw love story tested by instability, time and faith. I love how the author used the storytelling through the eyes of the two main characters, Clare and Henry. It was a complete love story from childhood up to old age of Clare. I love the poems sprinkled along the way as I read. I love how science was used in order not to make this one a magical realism. I love the rawness of the language employed by the author. She made me feel that these two people are in love like other humans, only challenged b...

To give some continuity to the last romantic post I had about love letters, I am posting here a recent attempt on my part at romantic theme in my poem entitled, As I see it . Enjoy... Ours started with me taking a glance of you, which you paid with a gaze, I know. I could not take another glimpse of you but my third eye says you continued to stare. Ours continued when you remained staring and I could not repay equally. So, I batted another fleeting look which you magnetted and locked with your fixed glare. Ours all started with that glance, I know but you want me to see it all started with that magnetic glare. Perhaps,  I say. June 9, 2013 4:04PM Copyright Gerlie M. Uy *Photo is taken at the foot of Mt. Tapyas in Coron, Palawan.