PURPLE QUEEN FAIRY READS

The month of July is just round the corner and once we welcome July, it would also mean that we are saying good bye to the first six months of the year.  Pretty scary thoughts but I guess we will just have to make the best of our time. Speaking of time, it's time again to preview my next sales which is taking place this coming weekend, 4 - 5 July. I do have quite a lot of books to let go off as I have been doing some serious books shopping recently and I really need the space on my shelf so I did some major clearing as well. So, what can you find at my flea market this weekend? First, my double copy of Last Night At Chateau Marmont by Lauren Weisberger.  I didn't know I have one copy at home and went and buy another copy recently, so one has to go. All these have to go... The House at Harcourt by Anita Burgh, The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant, Stardust by Joseph Kanon. Love Letters by Katie Fforde which I read recently, The end of your life boo...

Synopsis : Sixteen year old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true.  Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown asks her to burn a bundle of secret letters.  Bu when Grace's drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers the letters reveal the grim truth behind a murder. Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, this astonishing novel weaves romance, history and a murder mystery into something moving, real and wholly original. A Northern Light is classified as a young adult book.  Because it's classified as such, I wasn't quite keen to read it at first until I kinda chide myself to stop being so choosy as I was rejecting books left right and centre without really much good valid reason.  I kinda felt it might have something to deliver and I am glad to share that I was absolutely correct in this case. A Northern Light is...

Synopsis : With the bookshop where she works about to close, hopeless romantic Laura Horsley, in a moment of uncharacteristic recklessness, finds herself agreeing to help organize a literary festival deep in the heart of the English countryside. But her initial excitement is rapidly followed by a mounting sense of panic when reality sinks in and she realizes just how much work is involved - especially when an innocent mistake leads the festival committee to mistakenly believe that Laura is a personal friend of the author at the top of their wish-list. Laura might have been secretly infatuated with the infamous Dermot Flynn ever since she studied him at university, but travelling to Ireland to persuade the notorious recluse to come out of hiding is another matter. Determined to rise to the challenge she sets off to meet her literary hero. But all too soon she's confronted with more than she bargained for - Dermot. The man is maddening, temperamental and up to his ...

 Synopsis : Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name is extended by an old-school titan of Swedish industry. The catch—and there's always a catch—is that Blomkvist must first spend a year researching a mysterious disappearance that has remained unsolved for nearly four decades.  With few other options, he accepts and enlists the help of investigator Lisbeth Salander, a misunderstood genius with a cache of authority issues. Little is as it seems in Larsson's novel, but there is at least one constant: you really don't want to mess with the girl with the dragon tattoo. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is the first of three books by the late Stieg Larsson.   The other two are The Girl Who Play With Fire and The Girl Who Kick the Hornet's Nes t.  I will leave the other two books alone for ...

Synopsis : Orange Prize winner and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008, Linda Grant has created an enchanting portrait of a woman who, having endured unbearable loss, finds solace in the family secrets her estranged uncle reveals. In vivid and supple prose, Grant subtly constructs a powerful story of family, love, and the hold the past has on the present. Vivien Kovacs, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from the world by her timid Hungarian refugee parents, who conceal the details of their history and shy away from any encounter with the outside world. She learns how to navigate British society from an eccentric cast of neighbors -- including a fading ballerina, a cartoonist, and a sad woman who wanders the city and teaches Vivien to be beautiful. She loses herself in books and reinvents herself according to her favorite characters, but it is through clothes that she ultimately defines herself. Against her father's wishes, she forges a relation...

It's been ages since I went to a Popular book sales.  I used to go quite regularly whenever they had a sales but I kinda stopped after a while after I wasn't able to find what I wanted. However, during this recent weekend holiday break, since we neither went for any holidays, whether inbound or outbound, we basically just chill in the house.  On one of the days, we decided to check out the sales at the mall and the above are what we came home with. The following titles are my share of the loot : 1) Last Night At Chateau Marmont by Lauren Weisberger - ops....I already have a copy of this at home which I kinda forgot. 2) Nanny Returns by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus - I know this is not a new title but I haven't read it yet wor.... 3) The Priest's Graveyard by Ted Dekker - I love the spooky cover. I hope the story's good too. The rest belongs to the princess.  She collects Geronimo Stilton's Fantasy Series and The Enchanted Charms is the s...