Read: Jan to Mar 2011

1. Moonlight Road - Robyn Carr
2. A Place of Secrets - Rachel Hore
3. Vintage Singapore: Souvenirs from the recent past *NF
4. Safe Haven - Nicholas Sparks
5. In the woods - Tana French (x)
6. New Tricks - David Rosenfelt
7. Lessons from Stanley the cat - Jennifer Freed *NF
8. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
9. The Search - Nora Roberts (C)
10. Birds in the Garden City: A compendum of photographic works by Lee Tian Khee with text by Lim Kim Chuah *NF
11. Fractured - Karin Slaughter (C)
12. Undone - Karin Slaughter (C)
13. A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart - Maria A Vettese & Stephanie C Barnes *NF
14. Broken - Karin Slaughter (C)
15. The Wild Zone - Joy Fielding (C)
16. Deeper than the dead - Tami Hoag (C)
17. Please Forgive Me - Melissa Hills
18. Summer at Willow Lake - Susan Wiggs
19. Secrets to the Grave - Tami Hoag (C)


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Wondrous Words: paraprosdokian

I read this on Margot's blog
http://joyfullyretired.com/2011/03/16/wondrous-words-105/

"A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax. Here are some examples:

•We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
•Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
•The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
•Dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish.
•Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
•War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
•A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a workstation.
•Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.
•You’re never too old to learn something stupid.
•Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine."

It made me chuckle.

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The (not so) wild zone- Joy Fielding

Product Description
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. The Wild Zone, a South Beach (Miami Beach, Fla.) bar filled with lusty men—specifically, charismatic personal trainer Jeff Rydell; his cute visiting half-brother, Will, a Princeton graduate student; and Jeff's married best friend, Tom Whitman, a dishonorably discharged Afghanistan war veteran with some serious problems—provides the starting point for bestseller Fielding's nonstop thrill ride. A sexy bar patron, Suzy Bigelow, inspires the trio to make a wager on who can bed her first, and they even ask Jeff's live-in girlfriend, a Wild Zone bartender, for help. Suzy chooses Will for a platonic date, which has some distinctly unpleasant repercussions that involve not only wide-eyed Will but desperate, gun-loving Tom, whose wife takes their children and files for divorce. Fielding (Still Life) combines a fast-paced plot with top-notch character development to create an atmosphere of brooding unease that explodes in a wonderfully wild resolution. (Feb.)
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++++

This is the worst book ever written by Joy Fielding. The 3 male characters are arrogant and shelfish and I couldn't continue reading and had to skip to the end to read the ending.

Unfortunately this paragraphs irks me terribly.

"You have anyone from Singapore?" Tom had heard about how strict they were in Singapore, where they throw you in jail for jaywalking and doled out hundred of lashes for just spitting on the street. Shit, hadn't they almost execute some poor American kid for scribbling harmless graffiti on a wall? You had to figure their women would be pretty submissive."
~ page 319

Urgh. Typical stereotyping and demeaning to our women.




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Karin Slaughter

I first spotted "Broken" at page one in vivocity. The back excerpt looks interesting and I proceed to search Amazon and NIL catalogue for books availabilty.

I was surprised to find out that she written almost 10 books! Hoping to get hooked on her books ala Karen Rose and Lisa Gardner, I decided to pick "Fractured" to get a feel of her writing and I'm hooked!


Fractured


Undone


Broken

Featuring Will Trent, Faith Mitchell and Sara Linton from her first Grant County series.
So many books to read so little time!

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Book Love: Immersing myself in books

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Now reading: The search by Nora Roberts

Product Description from Amazon:

"The #1 New York Times-bestselling author presents a riveting novel where a canine search and rescue volunteer fights danger and finds love in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.

To most people, Fiona Bristow seems to have an idyllic life-a quaint house on an island off Seattle's coast, a thriving dog-training school, and a challenging volunteer job performing canine search and rescues. Not to mention her three intensely loyal Labs. But Fiona got to this point by surviving a nightmare...

Several years ago, Fiona was the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer, who shot and killed Fiona's cop fiancé and his K-9 partner.

On Orcas Island, Fiona found the peace and solitude she needed to rebuild her life. But all that changes on the day Simon Doyle barrels up her drive, desperate for her help. He's the reluctant owner of an out-of-control puppy, foisted upon him by his mother. Jaws has eaten through Simon's house, and he's at his wit's end.

To Fiona, Jaws is nothing she can't handle. Simon, however, is another matter. A newcomer to Orcas, he's a rugged and in-tensely private artist, known for the exquisite furniture he creates from wood. Simon never wanted a puppy-and he most definitely doesn't want a woman. Besides, the lanky redhead is not his type. But tell that to his hormones.

As Fiona embarks on training Jaws, and Simon begins to appreciate both dog and trainer, the past tears back into Fiona's life. A copycat killer has emerged out of the shadows, a man whose bloodlust has been channeled by a master with one motive: to reclaim the woman who slipped out of his hands..."

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Dance movie: Step Up 3

Love watching dance movie. How they managed to dance so effortlessly yet with so much "oomph"!

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