172. Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Ayelet Waldman

This book is SO rich! It explores issues on love, marriage breakdown, love affairs, adultery, paternal love with obsessive daughter, edgy step mother - step son relationship, impossible friendships, longings, pregnancy, death, forgiveness, and many more. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book, and wish they made a movie out of it. (ohhhh... just googled it and found out they did!!! just last year!! starring lisa kudrow and natalie portman! yay!)

This book also underlines how complicated life is... and in reality, there's so so so many shades of greys between black and white. And majority if not, all of us falls into these greys area.

171. A Pergectly Good Family, Lionel Shriver

The same author who wrote 'We Need to Talk About Kevin".

She's a very talented writer.. she explored every deep thoughts, undisclosed feelings and thinking process of her main characters. The in-depth exploration made readers (me) feel i've been intrusive. All decisions and actions have underlined meanings and motives. It made me question my everyday actions too, which i didnt give second thoughts previously.

The book itself is about the dynamic relationship of three siblings who were fighting for parents' inheritence. The characters remind me of my family members, it's scary. Most part of the book is pretty depressing. But it has quite a sweet ending.