Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas – A Love Story by James Patterson

astina

Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas is a love story written by the author of numerous bestsellers James Patterson. Yep, you heard me right, a love story by the famous thriller writer.

Katie is an editor with a New York publisher. She believes in true love and romance and is well known by her friends for not sleeping around. She fell in love with poet Matt almost at the first sight. So much in love was she that she even gave up her birth control. When she was about to tell Matt the exciting news of her pregnancy , the man ran away, leaving her only a diary written by a woman called Suzanne.

Suzanne was obviously a new mom and she addressed the diary to her baby Nicholas. In the diary she recorded how she escaped from big city to small town after a bad heart attack and an unhappy relationship, how she met Nicky’s father, how they fell in love with each other, how happy they were together and how lucky she felt she was to find her true love in life….. Most importantly, she pointed out that there are five balls in life, namely family, friends, health, integrity and work. While each of us has to juggle around the five balls, we got to remember that work is a rubber ball. You let it go and it will bounce back sometime later. All the other four are glass balls. You let anyone of them go and it would be broken and shattered.

It turned out that Nicholas’ father is Matt, the one Katie is in love with. So why on earth did the man with such a wonderful wife and baby start the relationship with Katie? Why did he run away leaving Katie the diary? It was most painful for Katie to read the story of another woman who at least used to be, probably still is, Matt’s heart and soul. She could only take a little bit every day. However, on the other hand, she couldn’t help reading on, wondering what happened to Suzanne, to her family. Neither could the readers.

Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas was partially based on true experience of the author. It was especially written for those who have loved, lost and loved again.  In this book with simple yet beautiful English, the author has managed to convince us how much love can do to one’s life and how different life could be with or without love. Whilst we may never truly recover from losing beloved ones, life should still move on, with hope and love ahead. Being a renowned thriller writer, James Patterson reveals something total unimaginable towards the end of the book which is not only shocking but also adds heavily to the points he tries to make throughout the whole story.

I was initially attracted to JP by Honeymoon and Beach Road, his hot hits of 2005 & 2006 respectively. Both are such terrific stories that I found it hard to put the book down, wondering what is the unknown ahead. However I am overwhelmingly impressed and moved by Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas. Life could be fragile and cruel and what excuse is there not to treasure every moment spent with the loved ones? Do remember that health, family, friends and integrity are all glass balls. Take care of them as well as you can for once you let it go, it would be broken and shattered.

I highly recommend this book Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas, whether you are a fan of James Patterson or not.

astina

上班时间连篇累牍打中文不方便，所以凑合写了英文

bulaohu

这英文可不是谁都能凑合出来的

bffbffbff

原帖由 bulaohu 于 2008-12-30 15:05 发表
这英文可不是谁都能凑合出来的

也就你了，我们只有看的分

孔武

AS 写得很好，我也想看着这本书了
很喜欢那句话：we got to remember that work is a rubber ball. You let it go and it will bounce back sometime later. All the other four are glass balls. You let anyone of them go and it would be broken and shattered.
说得太对了
另:JP真是个多面手，最新上榜的一本关于medical practice的书也是他写的（请见我的NY书榜贴）
还有老早我介绍的Sunday at Tiffany's ,也是个感人的中篇故事，有兴趣的同学可以找来看看。

bulaohu

原帖由 bffbffbff 于 2008-12-30 15:10 发表


也就你了，我们只有看的分

where, where. 我现在只看UFC之类的暴力，或者failblog.org之类的白痴娱乐网站，这样有深度的东西是永远也写不出来的

astina

我觉得honeymoon这类书，就是悬念一直抓着你，包袱抖了，故事也就结束了。

而这本书,却是如此的哀婉和动人，让你掩卷之余，还是感到荡气回肠。生活有时可以非常残酷，它残酷的夺走我们所爱的人，可是它有时那么仁慈，给于我们希望和再爱的能力。

孔武

准备看Beach Road 和Honeymoon.

joaquin

啊，你还没看那？
俺强烈推的2本哈～～～

这本，怎么说，Sunday at Tiffany's 俺看过了，感觉不大好，这本就免了吧……

astina

我估计你就是不爱看love story来着的

joaquin

嘿嘿

孔武

我现在正准备读2本关于圣诞节的小说呢（就是在我Wish you a Merry Christmas里提到的第一和第三本），明年1月份有JG最新小说，然后想读JP的Cross Country，然后就是这两本书了，嘿嘿。

zmzhu

原帖由 孔武 于 2008-12-30 23:37 发表
我现在正准备读2本关于圣诞节的小说呢（就是在我Wish you a Merry Christmas里提到的第一和第三本），明年1月份有JG最新小说，然后想读JP的Cross Country，然后就是这两本书了，嘿嘿。

这几天买了4本JG的经典，正好在打折。

孔武

哪4本？

zmzhu

原帖由 孔武 于 2008-12-30 23:45 发表
哪4本？

the firm
the pelican brief

还有2合1的the client和the street lawyer这个才$6.95