PURPLE QUEEN FAIRY READS

Synopsis : Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apartment floor. Overhearing the commotion, Yasuko’s next door neighbor, middle-aged high school mathematics teacher Ishigami, offers his help, disposing not only of the body but plotting the cover-up step-by-step. When the body turns up and is identified, Detective Kusanagi draws the case and Yasuko comes under suspicion. Kusanagi is unable to find any obvious holes in Yasuko’s manufactured alibi and yet is still sure that there’s something wrong. Kusanagi brings in Dr. Manabu Yukawa, a physicist and college friend who frequently consults with the police. Yukawa, known to the police by the nickname Professor Galileo, went to college with Ishigami. After meeting up with him agai...

If you have read my post here and here , you would have known that I have been searching for this title for quite a while and 'quite a while' here is defined as years. Being a title which I just seems to be unable to get my hands on, it was such a surprise to have it landed on my lap about a month ago.  However, it was in a rather huge box together with just about 30 other titles so I wasn't aware if it's existence. It was only today that I had time to sort out the box and imagine my surprise to fish this out of the box. Yes, I guess you can say it's my Easter Present :) More story about the other titles from the box another time. For now I am just so happy to have this whole set in my collection. p.s. I have not been reading for a while.  Will attempt to catch up soon.  In the meantime... H A P P Y E A S T E R !

The Big Bad Wolf is coming to  town... again. Let's hope it's better this year  compared to last year .

Photo taken from  Tripadvisor. Credit to the photographer (Manon M) Actually, I went to The Junk Bookstore many years ago and this post has been on draft for many years.  I thought it's about time I just get it posted and out of the way. Many years ago, while on a trip to the capital city, I was super excited to come across a bookstore that sells secondhand books.  They claimed in their FB that they are the biggest secondhand book store but never specify how they are the biggest.  In my opinion, they should claim to be the most expensive bookstore too! Situated in Jalan Tun H.S Lee and within walking distance from Masjid Jamek LRT Station, The Junk Bookstore is not difficult to locate and if you love books, you can't help but to feel excited to enter this treasure trove. Indeed they have a large collection of novels, magazines and other printed materials.  However, the place felt very clustered and books were not shelved but placed in piles throughout...