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My recent purchase - flea market

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I was at a flea market recently (not the one that I took part in)  and was rather happy to see second books being sold there.  Most of the time, I only see clothes or accessories, etc.  Upon close inspection, these 2 books caught my attention. I bought The Host by Stephenie Meyer for RM7 (about US2) and The Pagan Stone by Nora Roberts for RM5 (about US1.50).  Both are in pretty good condition with Pagan Stone being almost brand new. The Host is currently in cinema and no, I have not seen it and I don't think I will be watching it anytime soon as I would prefer to read the book first. The Pagan Stone is book 3 in the Sign of The Seven Trilogy . I read book 1, Blood Brothers and book 2, The Hollow some time back so it's a good feeling being able to get my hands on the third and final book in the series. :)

Drowning Man by Michael Robotham

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Synopsis : Everyone knows that Mickey Carlyle is dead and a man is in prison for her murder.  Everyone, that is, except DI Vincent Ruiz who cannot stop searching and hoping.  He is discovered one night clinging to a buoy in the River Thames with a bullet in his leg and a bigger hole in his memory.   Under investigation by his colleagues and accused of faking amnesia, Ruiz's only hope of unraveling the puzzle is to trace his steps and relive that night.  But there are further dangers lying in wait and oher ways for a man to drown. This is a psychological thriller by Michael Robotham.  I have never read Michael Robotham but a web search reveals that he has 8 of such psychological thriller under his name. I quite enjoy this book.  The writing wasn't overly descriptive and boring. The plot was rather unique too and as a reader, I was rather keen to find out if Mickey Carlyle really died or maybe something else happened to her?  The author kept the suspense right up to the

Spring Cleaning - Books Sales

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What will you be doing this Sunday (21st April)? If you are in Kuching do drop by Green Heights Mall.  The mall management is organising what they called a 'Bargain Fair'.  It is basically something like a flea market for registered vendors to sell their ware just for the day. Starting at 9 am to 3 pm, it will be held on the 1st floor of the mall. Guess what?  I shall be there as a vendor. The last time I sold my books was last year, also in Green Heights Mall.  That was held in the basement carpark but this time round it's in the mall itself. I nearly took part in a flea market last week but the timing wasn't right. These will be some of the books I'm letting go . So, what will be on offer?  Well, my Jane Green collection ( The Other Woman, Life Swap and Bookends ). some of my Dorothy Koomson collection ( Chocolate Run, The Cupid Effect, Ice Cream for Breakfast ), some of the Christian novels that I got directly from US, etc.  The Princess Pink

Valentine Read revealed

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Remember about my post on what I got from the man during Valentine this year?  Well, I haven't unwrapped them till now cos I know what they are but the time has come to see just exactly what they are all about. Both books are my choice. One is by an author which I enjoyed while the other would very much be a fun read as the author is actually a fictitious character in a hit TV series.  The Woman He Loved Before by Dorothy Koomson is about a husband and wife and how the wife found out out some stuff about the husband's first wife and worried that she would ended up like her.  Intriguing! Head Rises by Richard Castle is the second book by Castle.  What the story is all about is beside the point here as my attraction is the author himself.  For you see, he's also fiction character whom in the hit TV series, Castle, is a best selling author who is shadowing a NYPD detective to get inspiration for his book and this is the result of his 'shadowing' effort!  It

Life Swap by Jane Green

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Synopsis : Amber Winslow has got the kids, hubby, the suburban house in Connecticut, USA - and the feeling that somehow life is passing her by. Vicky Townsley is features editor of Poise! magazine in London - she's single, solvent and seriously successful but she'd ditch it all for marriage, a country house and kids. So when one day, Poise! offers one lucky married reader the chance to life swap for a month with a glamourous, single journalist, Amber puts pen to paper. But neither Amber nor Vicky gets quite what they were expecting and soon they find themselves asking why does the grass only look so much greener from the other side? Well, what do you expect?  Jane Green is pretty much on top of her game in writing chic lite and this is chic lite to the core. I have enjoyed, to a certain degree, some of Jane's writing like Bookends and The Other Woman but I don't like some of her writing too - like Jemina J .  What about Life Swap then, you ask.  Well,

The Angel's Game by Carlos Riz Zafon

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Synopsis : In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels nder a pseudonym.  The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city's underworld.  But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house lie photogaphes and letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner. Like a slow poison, the history of the place seeps into his bones as he struggles with an impossible love. Close to despair, David receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime. He is to write a book with the power to change hearts and minds.  In return, he will receive a fortune, perhaps more.  But as David begins the work, he realises that there is a connection between this haunting book and the shadows that surround h