The Man Who Fell In Love With His Wife

Just finished reading The Man Who Fell In Love With His Wife by Paul Burke.

This book is kinda different from what I usually read (which are Brava type/style of romance books), but it still appeals very much to me: a sweet love story. I'm so glad I came across this book.

I remember the first time I saw this book was at the Times BookShop at Suntec about two years ago (around the time when I was sourcing like mad for nice books to read), the title caught my attention; The Man Who Fell In Love With His Wife. And from this title, I thought the story is going to about an arranged marriage blah blah blah, and in the end the hero falls in love with the wife whom he did not choose blah blah blah & lived happily ever after.

No no, the book is not like that.

Well, whenever I see a interesting book title or pretty cover, I took note of the title and author & store the little info in my handphone, my pretty Nokia N73. (Or N70 which I had then.) That's what I did when I saw The Man Who Fell In Love With His Wife. And after that I just went home and store it in my excel file of books in my life. (Yes I have an excel file detailing when I buy books, how much I buy them, when I read them blah blah blah. I may blog about this someday). The Man Who Fell In Love With His Wife went under the worksheet title "Check Out" (which actually contains an obscenely long list of title I have yet checked out.)

I never really gotten around to reading it for more than a year, until one day I decided to do a search an Amazon for it. Then I realised it's actually about a former Catholic priest, and is a sequel to Father Frank, another book by Paul Burke.

Seeing that it has good reviews saying that the books are quite funny, I finally pick them up from the library.

Father Frank is about a Catholic priest, whose "vows (were put) under incredible strain" when Sarah appeared in his life.

Oh wow Father Frank, how I silently cry for Frank & Sarah sometimes. Even when I knew there's going to be happy ending. But Frank & Sarah did not know their ending at all. Damn how much heartache they must gone through. *sniff*

In The Man Who Fell In Love With His Wife, Frank & Sarah are happily married~ the story didn't make me cry though; I was just happily reading away.

Spoilers spoilers OH I simply LOVE the part where Frank straped his little twin babies at the back of his black cab & took them for a drive around town. It is sooooo heartwarming! This part in the book is short though, but I can imagine the whole journey, it's just simply sweet.

I love reading about sweet moments. I thrive on them.