PURPLE QUEEN FAIRY READS

Just when I was feeling pleased with myself that I only bought 2 books since early this year, I ended up purchasing 5 books recently. It was a Popular Sales held in Boulevard Mall during the school holidays recently and I was at the mall for an event.  A quick 10 mins visit ended up with the following purchases : Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger - because it's so cheap! Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn - I have been watching the series entitled Sharp Objects which is by this author and I have not read her books so why not...and it's so cheap! Shiver Trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater - just because the price is unbelievable and if I don't purchase, I might regret it.  So, in case you are wondering, my every other statement above ends with 'it's so cheap!' How cheap can it be!  Well, I only paid an amount that equals to USD3.00 for all five books! Yup! how not to buy.  Just for the fun of it, let's convert to other currency....£2...

Clipart image taken from web. Credit to the creator (tap.sf) Yup, I have a gateaway coming up this weekend.  Following   #1 which was to the beach and #2 which was to the capital city, #3 is slightly further away. It's a trip to reward myself after rather hectic month(s) and a motivation for the forthcoming hectic month(s) ahead too. There will be many firsts for this trip which I might share after the trip but then I might not as this isn't really the platform for that. Anyway, you know me, the first thing I would do is to decide on which book or books to bring with me as I do have quite a fair bit of hours to kill in between flights. So, for this trip, the selected title to accompany me is : Beach Music by Pat Conroy.  Actually I have started on this book and I am enjoying it so I know it would be good.  The only set back is that the book is pretty bulky and heavy so that's giving me second thoughts. Anyway, we will see what I decided a...

Like Page 6 August at 11:00 # MALAYSIAMEMBACA : APAKAH 10 BUKU KEGEMARAN ANDA? Saya berhasrat untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebagai negara membaca tahun 2030. Bererti, rakyat Malaysia rakyat paling banyak membaca pada tahun 2030. Kayu ukur kepada pendidikan yang berjaya ialah budaya membaca yang tinggi. Membaca ialah seruan pertama dalam Islam (al-Alaq:1). Saya mengalu-alukan sesiapa sahaja untuk berkongsi 10 buku kegemaran mereka daripada pelbagai genre dengan tagar (hashtag) #MalaysiaMembaca. Saya mulakan dahulu dengan diri saya. 1. "The Alchemist" karya Paulo Coelho. Perjumpaan pertama saya dengan penyelia PhD saya di University of Durham, beliau minta saya pulang dan membaca buku ini. Saya tidak faham kaitan buku dengan tesis saya. Perjumpaan seterusnya beliau minta pandangan saya tentang buku ini. Benar, buku ini tak ada kaitan dengan tesis saya, tapi ia memberikan saya semangat yang kuat untuk terus belajar dan menyiapkan PhD saya. Antara kata-kata dari no...

Synopsis : What would you do if your boyfriend proposed? Say yes, text everyone with the good news or take out a subscription to Brides magazine. Delilah does none of the above Instead she packs up her beloved Tom Jones record collection and heads to London in search of a new life and a new man.  Only she meets two..Charlie, the sexy media mogul and Sam, best friend and confidante. Everything seems perfect. Thrown into a whirlwind of glamorous parties, five-star restaurants and designer penthouses, Delilah couldn't be happier. After all it's a million miles away from her old life. And her old self. Which is exactly what she wanted.  Isn't it? This is what I say : What's New, Pussycat? is quite predictable.  No prizes as to whom she ended up with. It's pretty much the standard recipe for such chic lite. Even then, it was an enjoyable read which kept me company while I waited for the light to turn green. Yes, this is one of my 'traffic light...

Add caption Synopsis : On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome it...