I read The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb. The book is about this guy, Caelum Quirk, and his wife, Maureen, moving from Connecticut to Colorado to work in Columbine High School, and when Caelum goes back to Connecticut to attend to some family emergency, his wife was stuck in the library during the Columbine High School Massacre. Maureen then suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and she took this Xanax drug to calm herself down and soon she got addicted. When she was high on her drug, she killed this kid while driving and she got jailed…

The story itself is pretty long and naggy at times, and there are tons of characters and their names to remember. But the author will attempt to refresh your memory and most of the time it works for me (: The book is quite interesting in the sense that the author uses the real names of the victims and killers of the massacre but other than that all the other stuffs are fictitious. So it’s actually a mix of fiction and non-fiction.

I would say that it is quite a worthwhile book to read other than the ending which I feel is quite abrupt such that the impact you are supposed to feel (I think) doesn’t get felt. But other than that it’s a nice book but it’s a bit too long.

Oh, if you like animals, you should read jz’s A Friend Like Henry. The dog is so cute! :D

BY VIVIEN