PURPLE QUEEN FAIRY READS

A week long holiday is coming up and the family is heading to the beach for a few days! Hippeedeehip! What joy! this is where we are going A holiday without books is not a holiday. I must pack some that I classified as ‘beach novels’. Few days ago, I went through my collection to identify which books to pack. I think I must have changed my mind a thousand times. Initially, I wanted to bring Birthright by Nora Roberts.  Have you read it? Is it good? Then, I changed my mind and decided to bring these two, Pretend I'm Not Here by Chris Gavaler is about a weekend for reality show contestant in a beach resort. It promises sun, sand, romance and murder! Goody! Citizen Girl by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin, bestselling authors of The Nanny Dairies. Two books so that I can read the other if I'm tired of one.  To be very honest, I am still pretty undecided.   You never know. I might change my mind at the very last minute. You would know wh...

Synopsis : A terrible truth has been revealed to one man: the entire human race has been drained of every emotion except one-- fear. To bring life back to the world, Rom must embark on a journey that will end either in his own demise or a re-awakening of humanity. But to bring love and passion back into existence will also threaten the powers of the world with the revolution and anarchy that had nearly destroyed them previously. After happening upon a journal through strange circumstance, Rom's world is shattered. He learns that humanity long ago ceased to "live," that it exists today in a living death of emotions. In a terrible risk, Rom exposes himself to the vial of blood folded into the old leather of the journal. His change is fearful and fraught with mind-bending emotion. A once-pious observer of the Order's passionless statues, he is filled with uncontrollable impulses. He is filled with love. This is a new book by Ted Dekker and it rocks! Not particula...

Further to my posts on Tombstones & Banana Trees here and here , you might be interested to know more about Medad through the interview provided by B&B Media . Q: Can you tell us a little about how you came up with the title Tombstones and Banana Trees ? I was born under a banana tree. Mother had to hide there when she went into labor as my father would not pay for her to go to the hospital. He wanted my birth to be quickly followed by my death as he was full of hatred and anger. Much of my early life was marked by tombstones. I felt like life was over when my father abandoned me, my mother, sisters and brothers. And when my sister was murdered, I became a raging civil war—full of death and thoughts of revenge. But, just like Lazarus, I found out that tombstones are not what they seem. When Jesus arrested me, he challenged me to forgive others—even though they had wounded me so badly that I had wanted to kill them. This type of revolutionary forgiveness has changed not ju...

Synopsis : After spending many years in a foreign country, Lucy returns to her family’s rambling lakeside house. There she finds herself haunted by the curious circumstances of her father’s death 10 years ago. Sleepless one night, and pacing the moonlit hallways of the house, she makes a momentous discovery – locked in a window seat, she finds a collection of what at first appear to be idle curiosities. But each of these objects holds a secret. As Lucy begins to piece together her family’s true history – from an heirloom tapestry and old political tracts, to a web of allusions depicted in a stained glass – she realises that the story she has always believed were a fiction. And then, adding to her confusion, there is Keegan Fall, a local glass artist who was once her passionate first love, who stirs up old longings and who will lead Lucy to unexpected places. On the cover, it was stated that in year 2007, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter captivated over 6 million readers worldwide....

Synopsis : Grace Brookstein is young, beautiful and the wife of billionaire Lenny Brookstein when the US stock market goes into a terrifying freefall. Oblivious and seemingly unscathed, Grace continues her charmed life, until the death of her husband in a tragic sailing ‘accident’ forces her to face reality. Was it possible that Lenny had conned thousands of people out of millions of dollars to live like a king, and how much did Grace know? Untangling a spiralling web of vicious lies and well-planned deceit, Grace soon puts her own life in danger in an attempt to prove her innocence. Grace Brookstein is your typical Sidney Sheldon’s heroine. Young, gentle and beautiful, her life was turned upside down after her husband’s death. She lost everything from material possessions to those whom she thought were her family and friends. Grace was convicted and imprisoned and life in jail sounded very familiar with another of Sidney Sheldon's heroine, Tracy Whitney from If Tomorrow Co...

A Revolution of Forgiveness Medad Birungi's body is scarred with abuse - poverty, rejection, abandonment. Growing up with a violent father in Uganda in the 1960’s, Medad faced pain that few can imagine. Yet today he speaks of forgiveness that all can experience. Once a boy who begged to die by the side of the road, once a teenager angry enough to kill, once a man broken and searching, today Medad is a testimony to God’s transforming power. Through his story of healing, Medad calls you to find healing for your own emotional scars. As Medad reminds us, when we forgive others, we are doing something truly radical that changes relationships, communities and countries. We are welcoming God into the corners of the human souls, where revolutions begin. Reverend Medad Birungi is a Bible teacher, lecturer, pastor, and founder of World Shines Ministries, an organization that evangelises, disciples and intercedes in prayer in Uganda and around the world. Medad and his wife, Connie have...

Synopsis : In tiny Cottage Cover, on the coast of Maine, Wren Evans is raising her gifted son, Charlie. A single mom, she’s fought hard to give Charlie a stable, secure home life. What Wren doesn’t know is that Charlie has been praying for her. And the answer to her son’s prayers will change both of their lives. Wren’s grandmother, Ruth arrives unannounced, with an outlandish request. Ruth wants her family gathered together one last time, at the summer house where, years before, an accident shattered Wren’s peaceful childhood. In the tumult, Wren finds a friend in handsome, kind-hearted local, Paul Callahan. When the family gathers in Cottage Cover, old wounds will be healed, now love will blossom, and the innocent prayers of a child will be answered in a most unexpected way. The story started with Ruth’s arrival in Wren’s house in the first chapter. From there we learned more about Wren and her relationship with her family, focusing primarily on her relationship or lack of it ...

I thought it might not be fair not to share with you my experiences at the recent book fair after telling you about it here . So, here goes.... 1st visit The book fair was held in the foyer of a shopping mall as well at one of the empty units. Books for adults (novels, romances, hardcovers, business, health, etc) are all in the empty unit whereas the foyer housed books for children. There weren’t really a lot of book at the time I went which was the 1st weekend. The only word I can use to describe my 1st visit was ‘boring’. For some reason, nothing interested me at all. I walked around having a look here and a peep there. The usual gang was there. I said hello to James Patterson, had a bit of chat with Dean Koontz. I didn’t say hi to Danielle Steele since I was not keen on what she has to offer. Some older folks like Lawrence Sanders whom I have not met for a long time was there too.  So was David Baldacci.  I saw John Grisham and Marian Keyes which was a surprised. I m...

Synopsis : Dr. Ellie Sullivan has just completed her residency at a large urban hospital. While jogging in a park nearby, she witnesses the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted criminals, a couple identified as the Landrys. The only person to see the shooter's face, Ellie is suddenly at the center of a criminal investigation. Agent Max Daniels takes over the Landry case. A no-nonsense lawman, he's definitely not the ideal man that Ellie has always imagined, yet she's attracted to him in a way she can't explain. Ellie heads home to Winston Falls, South Carolina, to attend her sister's wedding. Shortly after she arrives, though, she receives a surprise visitor: Max Daniels. The Landrys have been captured, and she'll be called to testify. But they've been captured before, and each time the witnesses are scared into silence-or disappear before they can take the stand. Max vows to be Ellie's shadow until the trial, and it isn't long before sp...

Tulip farm in Holland. Nothing to do with this post. It's just so pretty, I want to go and see it one of these days. 2nd August 2010 marks a milestone for this blog. It's the date that I re-activate it and since then, a steady streams of book reviews, authors interviews, etc has been continuously posted.  I am really enjoying this new hobby of mine but I didn't know that maintaining a blog can be stressful but fun and satisfying at the same time.  I am now thinking of ways of how to expand it.  In months to come, I will attempt to share reviews of public libraries, promote local bookstores, book fairs and exhibitions and other relevant and related stories. Should this date be the official anniversary date of this blog?  If so, Happy 1st Anniversary.... :)