Friday, June 21, 2013

Books | Cecelia Ahern - Girl in the Mirror / The Memory Maker (short stories) (2010)

           Book consists of two short stories.
        The first is "The Girl in the Mirror." This story about old woman without eyes who lives in a big dark house where all the mirrors covered with black sheets. She had a granddaughter Lila, which she ordered to never look in the mirror. Lila always obeyed and did not violate her requests. Then the story transported on for many years, on the day of the wedding of Lila. Lila goes to her grandmother's house disguised in a wedding dress and violates her promise, opens the mirror and this moment changed her life forever. Mirror takes her back, and in return for what she gets out of it and asks her to give eyes then she realizes that the grandmother was without eyes, because when she was young mirror took them away and she was curtain off all the mirrors.
         The second story "The Memory Maker". This story about a man who has created a machine which creates memories. People come to him tell the story and it creates a memory. The main character has a flashback about his love Judith, who died in the accident. He finds a woman who was also named Judith and takes her to his work.
         These two stories are full of fantasy, I can't say that I really like this book. She is very well written, but footages are weird. The first story, which I was read was clear, but the second story I was didn't understand a bit.