Loubaba Aljayi

"You don't want to end your life, you want yo end your pain that I'm sure you wake up with and go to bed at night with. Maybe no one around understands that, but I do, believe me. But you don't want to end it all the time, do you? Just sometimes it passes through your mind, probably more often lately than before. It's like a habit, trying to think of different ways to end it all. But it passes, doesn't it." - How to Fall in Love    Summary by : Harper Collins A thoughtful, captivating and ultimately uplifting novel from this uniquely talented author She has just two weeks. Two weeks to teach him how to fall in love – with his own life. Adam Basil and Christine Rose are thrown together late one night, when Christine is crossing the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin. Adam is there, poised, threatening to jump. Adam is desperate – but Christine makes a crazy deal with him. His 35th birthday is looming and she bets him that before then she ...

"You know when you can feel someone with you? And even though not everyone believes in that person, you know they're there?" - If you Could See me Now Captivating!  As everything Cecelia Ahern touches, just a few pages in it turns into gold. I'm always amazed by how she manages to add the exactly right amounts of magic, mystery, love and humanness to make for a perfect story. Elizabeth adopted her nephew after her sister started showing signs of becoming just like their mother, who abandoned them when they were young. Elizabeth, after having to grow up too fast raising her younger sister and now her nephew, only feels secure when her world is deeply based in reality. She's not one for fun or imagination, and believes that hard work is the best way to stay relatively sane. Out of the blue one day her nephew, Luke, has an imaginary friend, Ivan. Elizabeth starts to worry that his mind is going much like his mother's and does everything s...

"I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting a stranger or a friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives."     Cecelia Ahern never disappoints me. What she writes can not be easily categorized into any existing genre. She writes fairy-tale romance, so different from the mainline books. She thinks out of the box and comes up with one winner after the other.     And while PS, I Love You may not have the polished and smooth style of her later If You Could See Me Now , it does strike a chord with a lot of readers.   For me the book is all about having ...

Un bruissement léger, presque imperceptible, qui dans le silence, résonnait avec force. Je fermais les yeux, les ombres dansaient devant mes paupières. Comme paralysée, je demeurais étendue, immobile. Le chaos de mes pensées complétait parfaitement mon apparente tranquillité. J’étais seule. Au loin des rires d’enfants faisaient écho à la chute vaporeuse de la neige. Des familles, heureuses. Et moi seule dans cette pièce, seule dans mon cœur. Une main crispée sur ma poitrine, je tentais vainement de me préserver de la douleur du temps qui passe. Du temps qui tue. Je songeais aux choses dites, aux choses tues. A l’existence, au néant. Et surtout au fait que je voulais faire quelque chose de ma vie. Je voulais aider, donner, offrir. Créer, inventer. Animée des meilleures intentions, j’étais décidée à changer les choses. Moi, volontaire et décidée. Moi, immobile dans mes draps défaits. Puis un jour, je me suis levée. J’ai attrapé ma veste, mes bottes, et je suis sortie. Dehors, t...

Just turned nineteen on the 1st March, supposed to be super cool right? It is bittersweet growing up, so everybody don't complain about being young! its frigging awesome being young! Anyhow, a year went by way too fast. The days go by so quick that you don’t even realize when you’re turning to your next age. Another year closer to being an official adult Ha Ha. But I will never stop being young.  18 was the year I had to think about growing up a bit more but still live my life acting young. and it’s also the age where I had learned to face this depression I was battling in the last th ree weeks. I definitely think every huge step I took to get where I am and how I felt at this point (I’m on a high in life!) is from going through the pain and in return, be treated with happiness. Alhamdoulillah! Yesterday, I woke up to text messages from my dear friends, and a beautiful voice from my 4 years old sister singing to me happy birthday songs... Thank you all for be...