PURPLE QUEEN FAIRY READS

  A basic simple light for a basic simple year The year 2020 will go down in history as an extremely unusual year.  It's a year where almost everything stop..not just locally but globally...all due to something we cannot see with our naked eyes. 2020 will be remembered as year of Covid 19.  I will remember it as a year where I am not able to travel at all.  Who would have thought that the last day trip I made in December last year to Kuala Lumpur would be the last trip I would have for the year.  Who would have thought that the last family trip to Shanghai would be the last trip we took as a family in quite a while.  We were supposed to attend a wedding towards end March 2020, a graduation ceremony in Sept 2020 and I have a couple of places I intend to travel to either solo trip or with friends and family this year.  All 'tak jadi' as the local would say it...not successful. Anyway, it's still a year where I would count my blessings...from good health ...

Taking this time to wish everyone  Merry Christmas 2020 While a lot of folks say that they don't feel the vibes of Christmas,  I hope that you embrace the spirit of Christmas.  May your Christmas be filled with love, peace and joy  that only comes from the Son of Christmas and that is  Christ Himself. May you be blessed this CHRISTmas. Christmas corner in my office room Stay Safe and much love from me

  Synopsis : A mother in New York sneaks her young daughter out of a research hospital. A billionaire philanthropist in Texas fights to save his dying son at all costs. A young traffic-ticket lawyer in Austin named Andy Prescott runs his legal empire out of a tiny office above a tattoo parlor and dreams of being a rich lawyer. Five lives on separate paths—until Andy defends the billionaire's secretary against a speeding ticket. Their lives become fatefully intertwined, destined to intersect—in death. And Andy Prescott learns that a client can be too rich for his lawyer’s own good. This is what I say : Right after reading The Con Law , I quickly picked up The Common Lawyer .  It was the smart thing to do as The Common Lawyer reminds me of why I first like reading titles by Mark Gimenez.  This book reminds me a bit of the old Scott Fenney's title (also by the same author) and it was an exciting read from the first page to the last page.  When a book captivated my atte...

Synopsis : John Bookman—Book to his friends—is a tenured professor at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin. He rides a Harley and wears jeans and cowboy boots and his hair too long to suit the conservative dean. He’s thirty-five, handsome and unmarried but seldom without a female companion. He teaches karate and Con Law, law school vernacular for Constitutional Law. He is a recognized constitutional law expert, debates senators on political talk shows and reduces them to blithering fools, writes scathing op-eds, and is often mentioned as a possible Supreme Court nominee. He is famous for taking on lost causes and winning. Consequently, when he arrives at the law school each Monday morning, hundreds of letters await him, letters from lost causes around the country seeking his help. Some letters are funny, others are sad, most are hopeless. But every now and then, one letter captures his attention. Then, with only his latest law school intern in tow, Professor Bookman takes of...

Synopsis : In the predawn hours, in a distressed American city, hundreds of unemployed men and women line up for the opening of a job fair. They are tired and cold and desperate. Emerging from the fog, invisible until it is too late, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes. Months later, an ex-cop named bill Hodges, still haunted by the unsolved crime, contemplates suicide. When he gets a crazed letter from "the perk," claiming credit for the murders, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, fearing another even more diabolical attack and hell-bent on preventing it. Brady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again. Only Bill Hodges, with a couple of eccentric and mismatched allies, can apprehend the...

  Synopsis : Sophie Kinsella returns to her beloved Shopaholic series with Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) newly arrived in Hollywood and starry-eyed. She and her two-year-old daughter, Minnie, have relocated to L.A. to join Becky’s husband, Luke, who is there to handle PR for famous actress Sage Seymour.  Becky can’t wait to start living the A-list lifestyle, complete with celebrity sightings, yoga retreats, and shopping trips to Rodeo Drive. But she really hopes to become a personal stylist—Sage’s personal stylist—if only Luke would set up an introduction. Then, unexpectedly, Becky is offered the chance to dress Sage’s archrival, and though things become a bit more complicated, it’s a dream come true! Red carpet premieres, velvet ropes, paparazzi clamoring for attention—suddenly Becky has everything she’s ever wanted This is what I say : Becky, Becky, Becky...I really quite dislike you in this title.  I think you are way over in your thinking and actions.  You are ex...

  Synopsis : Becky Bloomwood and a hilarious cast of beloved family and friends (plus one enemy!) set off in a van to find her missing father, last heard from in Las Vegas. Becky’s father Graham and her best friend’s husband, Tarquin, have disappeared from Los Angeles saying simply they have “something to take care of.” But Tarquin’s wife Suze who is Becky’s best friend, and Becky’s mother Jane, are convinced the two men are hiding something and are in danger—their imaginations run wild. They must track them down! Hijinks ensue as husband Luke drives Becky, daughter Minnie, Jane, Suze and other favorite Kinsella characters across country from LA to Las Vegas in search of the missing men. Becky feels deeply guilty about ignoring her father while he was in LA, in addition Becky feels her enemy Alicia is threatening her friendship with Suze. This is what I say : Shopaholic To The Rescue is book number 8 in the Shopaholic Series and no, it's not the final book although a lot of reade...

 Yes I most certainly must I have not been reading  regularly as I did in years before For this, today is my confession to you For the past few months, I have been seduced by k-drama Yes, I am now very much a certified k-drama fan for almost a year Ask me about Crash Landing, Goblin, Flower of Evil, Hotel Del Luna And we can have long conversations on the plot, actors, actresses, and even IU's dresses in HDL. Ask me simple Korean like anyeong haseayo, sarang heo, bangasupninda and I can answer you But if you ask me about what I have read recently, I would have no answer for you Such is the dilemma I face now as I really want to pick up reading again But the look from Hyun Bin, Lee Joong Gi, Kim Soo Hyun is *sigh* Dont forget reality show like 2D1N, Salty Tour, Master in in House I love them too...Lee Seung Gi, Kim Jun Ho, Kim Jong Min They made me laugh and brought me to places in Korea That I would not have a chance to go (especially now) So how do I say good by to k-drama an...

  Synopsis : The fireman is coming. Stay cool. No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it’s Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies—before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe. Harper Grayson, a compassionate, dedicated nurse as pragmatic as Mary Poppins, treated hundreds of infected patients before her hospital burned to the ground. Now she’s discovered the telltale gold-flecked marks on her skin. When the outbreak first began, she and her husband, Jakob, had made a pact: they would take matters into their own hands if they became infected. To Jakob’s dismay, Harper wants to live—at least until the fetus she is...

Hello again. I seems to be doing quite a fair bit of purchase of books recently.  These were bought towards end of September 2020. I was a a charity shop in town to drop off some clothes (as in donated the clothes to the charity shop) and when I was there, I just want to browse around a bit.  I was surprised to see a rather good collection of donated books with titles that I would like. I kinda zero in on Cecelia Ahern for no other reason than I have not read these two and I won't mind supporting the charity shop by making a purchase (konon-nya...if you understand what I mean! haha). Anyway, long story short, purchase number four was for 2 copies of Cecellia Ahern titles are Thank you for the Memories and The Year I met You . This would make my purchase for the year to be 8 books in total...so far....I hope that's all for the year!   

  Book purchase number three are actually the four copies of Harry Porter titles in order for me to complete the series under my collection. I have been wanting to collect the whole series for quite a while...and the reason it's been taking me quite a while is because I have certain conditions :      1. The books must be under bloomsbury publication with the classic cover      2. They must be pre-loved copies      3. They must be reasonable priced. The story of my collection goes like this : I started with one copy in my collection. Harry Porter and Order of the Pheonix .  I can't remember where I bought it.  It was quite a few years ago. Subsequently I managed to get hold of Prisoner of Akzeban and the Deathly Hallow and since then, my purchases has been stagnant for a couple of years. Recently someone from my church wanted to sell her entire collection.  With the exception of one title, the rest are what I have been lo...

  Synopsis : Celebrate Christmas with the ultimate Shopaholic! The brilliant laugh-out-loud festive novel from the Number One bestselling author. Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) adores Christmas. It's always the same – Mum and Dad hosting, carols playing, Mum pretending she made the Christmas pudding, and the next-door neighbours coming round for sherry in their terrible festive jumpers. And now it's even easier with online bargain-shopping sites – if you spend enough you even get free delivery. Sorted! But this year looks set to be different. Unable to resist the draw of craft beer and smashed avocado, Becky's parents are moving to ultra-trendy Shoreditch and have asked Becky if she'll host Christmas this year. What could possibly go wrong? With sister Jess demanding a vegan turkey, husband Luke determined that he just wants aftershave again, and little Minnie insisting on a very specific picnic hamper – surely Becky can manage all this, as well as the surprise appearanc...

  S ynopsis : Catch a professional assassin: top priority. Find a failure-to-appear and collect big bucks: top score. How she’ll pull it all off: top secret. Trenton, New Jersey’s favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was caught selling a lot more than used cars out of his dealerships. Now he’s out on bail and has missed his date in court, and bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is looking to bring him in. Leads are quickly turning into dead ends, and all too frequently into dead bodies. Even Joe Morelli, the city’s hottest cop, is struggling to find a clue to the suspected killer’s whereabouts. These are desperate times, and they call for desperate measures. So Stephanie is going to have to do something she really doesn’t want to do: protect former hospital security guard and general pain in her behind Randy Briggs. Briggs was picking up quick cash as Poletti’s bookkeeper and knows all his boss’s dirty secrets. Now Briggs is next on Poletti’s list of people to put six feet under. To t...

  Hello.... I bought a book recently.  Actually, I bought more than a book but I shall just be sharing one of my purchases here. Be Careful What You Wish For is part of a series of novels that I am curating. If you refer to my post from Feb 2019, I posted about this series and how I am two books short to have a complete set. With the purchase of Be Careful What You Wish For, I am just missing the last book This Was the Man. I hope I am able to get hold of this title soon. For record purposes, I shall consider this my second purchase for the year with this being the first. I will share about my other purchases another time.

I will be taking time off from posting for a few weeks due to personal reason.   Hope to be back here real soon. In the meantime, stay safe.

Synopsis : Susan Thorton awakens in a hospital, after a near-fatal car crash, to see four men lurking outside her door--men who exactly resemble those who killed her boyfriend years before. Can these be the same men? As she tries to uncover the identities of those stalking her, Susan enters a terrifying nightmare--one from which she may never escape. Previously published by Pocket under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols (1982). This is what I say : I used to dig titles by Dean Koontz...I would say it was more than twenty years ago that I was an avid reader of what he wrote. I used to be a poor student and unable to afford buying novels so I would rent them from the local rental shop that charges like RM3 per copy for a week or so rental (that's about less than US1).   It was affordable for a student who loved to read.  There were no such things as internet or e-book.  In fact, to get internet, one had to dial it up.... Anyway, along the years I guess my reading interest ch...