Abandonment, and The Notebook, and a clothing line

Hi,
Remember when I told you about that book I had started reading, called How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone? Well, I think that I'm going to have to send that book back to the library, even though I'm not even halfway through with it yet; the reason being that I just don't find that the book has a specific focus. While it's gotten all this worldwide acclaim, and the writing is really fantastic, for me, the plot just isn't working out. I know that you might say to give this book another chance, but I really have given it many chances, the last page that I read was 85. So, I think that I'm going to have to abandon this book in search for a new one. Maybe I'll come back to it in a few years and find it to be one of the best books that I've ever written, but so far, it hasn't really lived up to the high expectation I had when I picked it up. While I don't usually abandon a book, I once abandoned a book series by Lloyd Alexander that a few years later I found to be one of the best book series I've ever read in my entire life.
So, I think that it's really okay to give up a book. I probably will come back to it in a years' or couple months' time and find it to be amazing, but for now, other books are calling, and I think that I'm going to have to put this one aside for now in search for another one. So, goodbye for now, but hopefully I'll be saying hello to it a little later.
Using my secret online movie database, I watched the movie, The Notebook. A lot of my friends said that they found the movie to be "the saddest movie I've ever seen", but I found it to be really good, and while I did get a tad emotional toward the end (a tear, just a tear) I found it to be a really good movie. But then again, I find many movies, even those that get 1 star in the reviews to be really good, so you shouldn't trust my judgement on that. If you haven't seen the movie, it's about a young man and woman, one from the upper crust of society, the other one a lowly farm worker, who meet and fall in love. However, social and geographical differences soon separate them for many years. But, as in many movies, fate makes them cross paths once again. The actors (Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling) I found to be okay. They could've picked better actors, and each fits his or her part sort of like a shoe that is a tad tight but you love anyway, so you buy it even though you always wear it uncomfortably. Hopefully you get my simile. But overall, it was fairly well done, not on my "best movie ever" list but still up there on my "it-was-a-nice-movie" list. It's worth a watch.
Lastly, I'd like to tell you about a clothing line by a woman named Abigail Lorick. Her line, called Lorick, is sort of a cross between Erin Fetherston and Gap. A weird combination, but one that produces some really interesting and unique clothes. Her website, loricknewyork.com is quite creative, and is worth a look. While I personally prefer her debut collection, the one you can see in very old episodes of Gossip Girl, some of her newer lines are definitely creative and things that I might wear. So, check it out, think about it a bit, and come back to me with your opinions.
Hope you're enjoying the last weeks of summer!

Love always,
Olivia