The Imfamous Book Hangover

According the http://geekeryandbooks.com a book hangover is defined as:
 A book hangover is that feeling that you get once you finish reading a great book. A book that has lead you through an emotional roller coaster ride or, has challenged you or the way you think. The next 24 hours after this amazing experience you are obsessive wondering why did these characters have to say that or make those decisions. 

Any bookgeek, bookworm, or avid read for that matter knows exactly what that feels like! You turn the last page of the story close the book and want to scream. It a scream to express the utter frustration of not having morning time with the characters. The book hangover usual comes to people who are deeply involved in the life of the characters they are reading about.

I have to say a book hangover maybe one of my greatest weaknesses! I am constantly identifying with the characters I read about. This is one of my greatest admiration's of authors, how they can pull me in, make me laugh, cry, judge, even defend people in books. I remember reading a book at the same time as a fellow book junkie, we totally saw the main character in two different ways and I actually got defensive about it! It made me realize how true this quote is, "No two persons ever read the same book" Edmund Wilson. But I digress....

Where was I... oh right... the book hangover. I swear this is the hardest part of reading for me. To know that its over, to know that these friends are just gone... no more story. I know thats what suppose to happen but its not always the easist thing to deal with! You start to get really invested in people and they are just gone :( This is why I prefer series books I guess... more pages to get through before you have to experence the hangover.

So how do I get over it? I guess I dont. I try to by pass the hang over by quickly picking up the next book and start diving myself into the next world. Does it work? Yes and no... I mean I still long for my old friends and I remember I can revisit them. However, I do still get that remorseful feeling once a book has ended. 

Do you have a way to get over book hangovers?? Please do tell....

A Promising Man (and About Time, Too) by Elizabeth Young

I really like Elizabeth Young. A few years back I read her book, Asking for Trouble. It was later turned into the movie Wedding Date. I just love the voice she gives to the characters and the situations they find themselves in.

A Promising Man is no different. Harriet, the main character, is living in a house in London with a couple of her friends. One night while Harry, as her friends affectionately call her, is out Christmas shopping she meets a man, John, who quite tickles her fancy! There seems to be a draw back though, John, is seeing an old schoolmates of Harriet's. Harry, at first, isn't about to risk her heart or create drama in her life, but after John keeps turning up so Harriet went for it. From there the story takes a fun fun roller coaster ride through who said what, and who was with whom....

I will admit, it was a little rough going in the start. But once it picked up I really started to enjoy it. Harriet had a tendency to over analyze this which made this book a riot! The supporting characters added so much of their own to the story that while it's focus was on Harriet and John I really couldn't wait to see what unfolded in the side-lines.

Be warned: after I read this book, I was talking to people like I just gotten back from a 6 month holiday in London. Claiming theses were Sod's law, and wishing I had a true bloke of my own.

It makes perfect sense...

It really does if you think about it. You have this girl who loves books, I mean would usually rather read than do anything else, but after the books are read the story just sits inside her head with no were else to go. No one really knows her thoughts or opinions because while she loves her friends, they don't really share her passion for fictional characters. So what not start a blog to get out great stories and discuss literately things and give reviews. Now I know what you are thinking, Stephanie, Its been done before. There are blogs and blogs and blogs about books and with reader reviews. I know! I'm not saying this is going anywhere, I'm not even saying anyone but me will read it. I am just taking pleasure in being able to do more of what I love.


So with out further a do.... my first review