Montag, 1. April 2013

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith

What Goodreads says: 

Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?

Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. Having missed her flight, she's stuck at JFK airport and late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley's never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's sitting in her row.

A long night on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. Can fate intervene to bring them together once more?

Quirks of timing play out in this romantic and cinematic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves. Set over a twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver's story will make you believe that true love finds you when you're least expecting it. 


What I say:

 I know of quite a few people who didn't like the book because they thought it was too short or because it only took place in 24 hours. But that's just what I liked about it. I liked that both Hadley and Olivers reasons for flying to London seem to be none of the pleasant kind and how they have to spend so much time so close together. That also made it plausible for me how they find their love within just 24 hours (it is not spoilering to say that they find their love, even goodreads says it.) 
I also liked how in the end it isn't only a cheesy love story anymore but it also gets some depth, but not to much as to make it too deep and destroy the light and warm feeling you get while watching the two of them at the airport and in the plane. 
However, if you want a really profound book with a huge moral that makes you think about its meaning for weeks, this is not the book for you. 
If you want a nice love story where you don't have to get your head in, this definitely IS the book for you.
Plus, you know, I'm a 16-year old girl, of course I enjoy a love story like this one. Especially since Oliver is British and I do have to admit that I might have developed a little crush on him.

YAY first post!

So, I have always admired people with a blog. They seemed so cool and writing made them seem so incredibly intelligent. Besides, I also have the image of me sitting at Starbucks with a large Caramel Latte and my (non-existent) Macbook while writing a new entry in my mind and to be honest I really like the idea. It's all hipster.
There are just a few minor or major problems:
  1. My life is so boring, I basically have nothing to blog about.
  2. English is not my native language so after just reading this first paragraph you will probably be disgusted by my grammatical errors and exit the blog.
  3. I am very lazy so there might not be any posts in a while before I make another one.
  4. I have no idea how to be a good blogger.
  5. I don't have the money or time for daily Starbucks or a Macbook.
But I do have some solutions for these problems. They may or may not solve them but whatever.
  1. I can blog about books. I like books and everything about books and I tend to buy a lot more than I can read. But I don't want to limit myself to books so it might very well happen that I am writing about a movie I saw or a recipe I tried or whatever.
  2. I am quite fond of my skills. I am by far not perfect but I have to practice and where could I do this better than right here, on my very own blog!? I will be able to improve my skills and why do I even care if you read this or not?
  3. Okay, I don't have a solution for this problem. This is just what I am like and maybe I won't read a book in a month (because that happens when school is stressful or I just don't want to read) and then you won't have a post about books or I will forget about the blog for a few weeks but maybe I won't, you never know.
  4. I suppose I will find out once I get started= At least I hope so. Even if not, who says that you have to be a good blogger, as long as you are a blogger at all it should be all good.
  5. IT IS ONLY A STEREOTYPE THAT EVERY BLOGGER SITS AT STARBUCKS AND BLOGS ALL DAY. I can also be a blogger without a macbook and daily Starbucks. Why did I even list this as a problem?