Photography skills: 8/10 (words are not focused enough as it is blurry)
Editing Skills: 9.5/10 (You WILL notice)
If you look closely, you'd notice a tiny bit of blueish smudge on the bottom right of the note (where her name used to be). I did my best in blurring it out since she wanted to be anonymous when I told her I'm going to post this. (It's not like anyone's gonna read this blog anyway T~T but yes, I respect her decision)
This was given to me by my friend. Let's call her Jane, since the name "Jane" is quite common and it could belong to anybody. Actually, the black notebook was originally given to me on my birthday. She only get to give this fabulous novel about four months after my birthday.
It was really sweet of her to slip in a little note inside the novel. To me, it made the birthday gift much more meaningful. It definitely shows that this gift is sincerely from the bottom of Jane's heart and I really appreciate the effort, the time, and the money she took to do something like this.
According to the note, I think Jane is trying to say that "Cash as a birthday gift is not appropriate (in her opinion) and instead, spending money to buy something for the people we love and care about is much more acceptable". She mentioned the "money as a birthday gift" thing because I mentioned to her before that if you don't know what to buy for someone as a birthday present, just give them cash because everybody loves cash." Hahaha... I guess she didn't take the hint but that's alright, because I LOVE reading books.
And she chose EXACTLY the right kind of book for me too! A few weeks back, while we were playing RebirthRO online, she was telling me about a movie she saw and it was based on the Miss Peregrine book. So she got me this book. It was the third novel so it was a little bit confusing to me when I first read it because the plot is kind of in the middle already and I have no idea what happened before that. Still, Ransom Riggs' writing style is definitely my type of thing to read so i enjoyed reading it.
Ahh, Jane just knows the right things to get for me as a birthday present. I am so, SO blessed to have a friend like her. I have to mention it here, she can be REALLY hilarious at times. And adorable too, especially in the online game I forced invited her to play. She is the type of friend you DREAM you would have because it's really rare for you to find people as honest, loyal and understanding as Jane.
It's going to take me a few more days to finish the book since I am going through a phase which I would call "The Hibernation Week" because I feel more sleepy and weak and tired (I suffer from mild to moderate anemia) since it's "that time of the month again" and I want it to be over as soon as possible.
I should stop here.
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