PURPLE QUEEN FAIRY READS

Synopsis : Which books would be on your book club wish list? Join Will and his mother Mary Anne in a very special two-member book club, as they read life-changing books from Suite Francaise, Brooklyn an dThe Elegance of the Hedgebog to discoveries like Crosing to Safety and People of the Book.  As Mary Anne's life comes to a close their exploration of books brings them even closer together. A profoundly moving testament to a life lived to the fullest and the power and comfort of reading in our lives. What are you reading now? I really wasn't sure what to expect from this book.  I wasn't really keen to read it but it kinda put itself right in my face and forced me to take a second look.  I thought I just give it a chance since I was between read at that point of time. After I read t he end of your life book club , I went to google Will Schwalbe and when it came to the google tools options, I choose image.  And it was there that I saw the photo of Mary An...

Synopsis : The Liddiard family are well known in the Gloucestershire village of Honeycote - and now there is to be a big wedding.  But will everything go according to plan?  Lucy Liddiard knows her husband is no saint, but isn't prepared for his latest confession. Bride-to-be Mandy has no idea what joining the Liddiards really means.  And local girl Mayday, wild child, rebel and free spirit, is thinking the unthinkable - with unimaginable consequences. Just a Family Affair is a glorious, all-consuming story about finding out the truth, finding a husband, or perhaps just finding yourself. The only way I can think of to describe this book is that it's a rather modern version of Downton Abbey but with a bit less sizz. Set in a small English village, Just a Family Affair focused on the Liddiard family with Lucy Liddiard being the mother and a rather saintly one, father Mickey being the devilish rascal who is rather good at letting others take the rap for his mist...

Synopsis : The selling of the president is an assignment that could salvage TV producer Ryan Bolt's damaged life and career, But Bolt doesn't know whom he truly serves. And by the time he finds out, it may be already too late...for one nation under siege. The title isn't very imaginative. Neither is the cover but that's call you can say about this novel because the story and plot is imaginative enough for it to be a captivating and an engrossing read. While the focus is on Ryan Bolt, the storyline wasn't about him but more about the system and how it's being manipulated and probably how easy it is to manipulate it when there's the right person placed at the right place with the right price. If you are a fan of thriller with a side dish of politics, you would probably find this book engrossing and entertaining.  Others might find it an airport read but even so what's wrong with that if that's all you need?

Synopsis : Nina is a thirty year old English lecturer in Delhi, living with her widowed mother.  When an arranged marriage is proposed with Ananda, a family acquaintance living in Canada, Nina is uncertain : can she really give up her home and career to build a new life in Canada with a husband she barely knows? The consequences of her marriage are far greater than she ever could have imagined.  From what she eats to what she wears, Nina's whole world is thrown into question.  As certain truths unfold about Ananda and their relationship, she realises that establishing a new life will cost more than she expected - and that some things can  never be left behind. Here we go again, anther Asian related book which, at times, I really want to stay far away from.  Nothing really wrong with them but they just tends to be fixated on the theme of family, being filial and for even grown up kids to be still under the thumb of their family. The Immigrant does hav...

Synopsis : Though the two-year-old survives the brutal attack by his drunken father, his older sister Kaitlyn is convinced it's all her fault.  Christopher is taken into care and never returns to the family home on the notorious Roxford estate in South London.  But the bond between the siblings remains strong, and as Kaitlyn gets older she dreams of a new life away from the violence of the estate and her mother's dangerous addictions.  But most of all, she dreams of being reunited with her little brother. Will Kaitlyn's dreams ever come true? and if they do, could they turn into a nightmare? I nearly missed out on reading this book as I have put it out for sale at the recent flea market.  While there, I kinda took it off the market as I thought it might be interesting and surprising and luckily, it was not too bad. Kaitlyn , as the title goes, is about this girl who grew up in the wrong side of town.  Having lost her brother to the system due to their ...

Synopsis : Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic Hamm Sparks and the two women who love him as differently as night and day. Then there is Tot Whooten; Beatrice Woods, the Little Blind Songbird; Cecil Figgs, the Funeral King; and the fabulous Minnie Oatman. The time is 1946 until the present. The town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future. I am actually taken by surprised by Standing in the Rainbow.  I thought it would be boring as it's story focused on places and people in small town America where nothing really happen...