The Book : One Day : David Nicholls : Review

One Day by David Nicholls : Book Review

Here is a book that has men openly crying in public, a book of romance and love. Who says that men don't have a romantic side to them. The big open secret is that men are really big softies at heart.

Two people meet at university and then the book describes one day of the year at the same time throughout the progress of their lives. It has a comic feel to it, but there is an underlying theme of the realities of life. How people start off all hopeful and full of dreams but over time we find the initial simplicity overrun with disillusionment's and frustrations. So its not a wishy washy romance but a book rooted in real life.


Some ordinary people reviews from Amazon.co.uk
"I've never been moved to write a review of any book before but this was simply wonderful. David Nicholls has managed to conjure characters so full of depth that in finishing the book I felt almost bereft at their parting"

"There`s no sloppy romanticism here either, no sex scenes described in elaborate euphemisms. This book is about realistic characters feeling the sort of emotions we have all felt. All human life is here in this novel and it`s utterly compelling"

Interesting Links for David Nicholls and his books

David Nicholls (writer) from Wikipedia

David Nicholls: why he made the headlines in 2010 from the Guardian Newspaper

David Nicholls from his own website

Keep calm and eat a cupcake mini poster

Here is a great mini poster to calm you in your moments of stress and anxiety

You can get this mini poster on keeping calm by clicking this link from Amazon.co.uk

Precison walking - marching - from Japan

This video shows precision walking, marching at it's best. The amount of time, energy, practice, dedication, self and group discipline, most of which us ordinary folk lack, is phenomenal.

Mobile Phone - Classical Music Fun

Classical music can be serious, it can beautiful, it can be sad, it can express for us the most deepest of feelings, but for here and this video it can be just for fun. !

By the comedy cabaret string quartet MozART GROUP from Poland

100000 toothpicks sculpture of San Francisco

Yes this guy built this model of San Francisco using over 100000 tootpicks and apparently it took him 35 years to do it. A nice long time obession to keep the mind in occupation in those moments of idleness. The model even has various tours of the city by using ping pong balls that is shown on a video of the working model. Excellent ! Worth a see.

One man, 100,000 toothpicks, and 35 years: An incredible kinetic sculpture of San Francisco

Wrist Computer

This web page talks about computers that are so portable they will be on our wrists by 2020. There is no need for a computer screen as images can be thrown on any suitable flat surface by holographic projection. The design of this computer by Sony is very imaginative and clever. Portability, compact and a lot of lateral thinking have gone into this device.

Computer on your wrist by 2020 ?

Plastic Bottle Recycling Videos

Yep there is a lot of plastic in the world that just gets thrown away, much of it ending up damaging the land and the oceans. Here is a video at least that shows how to make further use of plastic bottles.


Heres a video on how to used plastic bottles to make a solar light, its virtually free to make and has zero running costs.
If you know of other ways of making better use of plastic bottles let us know in the comment box below.