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I just read Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas. God, that's the saddest book I've ever read. I finished it at the bell and I walked into the hall crying like a kid. It is just a book after all, isn't it? Though it's a painfully realistic one, and the mere idea of someone having to go through the loss of his father, wife and son in this way, described this way, is just too horrible to consider. Yet it has been put into words, and I have read these words, and I can feel the message in knots. Knots in my stomach, knots inside me that twist and tighten, making me feel as if life is hopeless, as if nothing can lift me out. These feelings fade, of course, like most things do.
I suppose I should explain the book, it's no fair if I talk about it like this without you knowing what I'm talking about, but I'm afraid that if I do I'll spoil it for somebody. The book's by Jame's Patterson, and despite my extreme sissy crying, I still think you people should read it.