I just finished reading my copy of Life is an Open Secret – You, Me and We. And like a mad woman immediately rush to the laptop to blog about it while the experience is still fresh in my mind.
I am among a few earlier ones to read the book simply because I was there at the launch yesterday! (a different story for a different entry 
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I bought Sis Zabrina’s first book, Life is an Open Secret – Think About It a year ago. The book changed my life in more ways than one. I eagerly wait for the second book.
Just imagine my excitement holding my very own, second book yesterday. As soon as I reach home after the book launch, I dove right in. Losing myself in her magical story-telling. Tugging my heart, gently persuading my mind, and replenishing my soul her stories did. Pages quickly turned, the husband from time to time coming to the bedroom to check on me exclaimed ‘How fast you read, it’s nearly half the book already!’, only to be met by ’shuushh’ from me.
Different from her first book, her second book delved more into the everyday human connections. From story about loving your own family, how to deal with envy, smiling – she tells is so intriguingly, so passionately, so unpredictably – it is like being on a ride really, reading her stories.
Foreworded by Yvonne Ridley, she mentioned that Sis Zabrina’s style of writing is ‘an acquired taste’. Referring to it as ‘groovy introduction to Islam!’ and carries a mixture between Marry Poppins, Shirley Temple and Aesops Fables.
As for me personally, I found it some sort like Like Tim Burton’s movies, Marmite, sushi, dark chocolate or drinking Dr. Pepper’s experience - it’ something a bit our of ordinary, but once you got the hang of it, it left you wanting more!. With this second book, she has proven that she has carved her own niche, her own style. Thus, she creates for herself her own league, her own market. Her very own Blue Ocean (those who is not into business reading, I am taking about Blue Ocean strategy).
I woke up today and immediately continued reading from where I left of from last night. I cried reading the last story, and eagerly turned the pages for more stories. I didn’t even realise that I am reading the last one! I couldn’t believe it’s the end of the book.
Like a great movie, a great show, or a great experience – you just want it to go on and on and on forever. That’s exactly how I feel.
However, I am soothed, because I know I can always read the second book again, and again, and again. And put it on my bedside table, with the Life is An Open Secret, the first book.
