Monday, May 30, 2011

Resolution to read more and 2 reviews



I'm having a little reading slump and trying to clear the stack of library books that I have borrowed frantically a month ago.

I completed Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins and I  love it! It's so fun and an easy read and so romantic in the YA way. Brought back memories of first love and crushes when I was 18. Heh.
4.5 stars
Currently reading The moment between by Nicole Baart. It's an emotional read and I feel so sad and touched and conflicted. I'm halfway through and it's good for a new author I chanced upon.

From Publishers Weekly

Baart (Summer Snow) writes an emotionally intense tale of two sisters. Past and present alternate as the history of their family unfolds in order to explain their present circumstances. The present is largely set in a winery in British Columbia, where one of the sisters, Abigail Bennett, pursues Tyler Kamp, her sister Hailey's boyfriend. The vineyard offers opportunity for beautiful description and resonant imagery as the narrative unspools. Abigail is presented in painful, almost claustrophobic, detail as she deals with the central puzzle of her family and history. But some of the supporting characters, while intriguing, are slightly off-pitch. Hailey's boyfriend Tyler isn't presented fully enough, and winemaker Eli Dixon occasionally becomes more of a symbol than a character with a compelling back story. But Baart has exactly right the members and dynamics of the Bennett family, locked in the manic dance of mental illness. She tells a poignant and gripping story. (May) 
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Sunday, May 1, 2011

Library Loot: 30 Apr 2011

I admit. I have gone book crazy this week. I blame it on the newly opened library 2 weeks ago. Every book is new and it feels so crisp and I get all excited!

Here's my loot:



A reserved book.
1. A discovery of witches - Deborah Harkness.




2. Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt- Beth Hoffman

3. Indelible - Karin Slaughter
4. Triptych - Karin Slaughter
5. Heart of the night - Barbara Delinsky
6. Garden spells - Sarah Addison Allen
7. The sugar queen - Sarah Addison Allen
8. The moment between - Nicole Bart
9. Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins




10. Baby Blues: aren't Yeats and still in diapers


11. The authoritative Calvin and Hobbes

Oh my! That's alot! I had to use my mum's card too. And you know what? When I got home last night and tried to keep the books in my TBR box, I found myself getting upset because I "should have gotten another book".

Don't you love new books?




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Books read: Jan to Apr 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)

++++

Apr 2011

20. Ross Dobson's wholefood kitchen : delicious recipes with beans, lentils, grains and other natural foods / Ross Dobson ; photography by Peter Cassidy. *NF (F)
21. Blindsighted - Karin Slaughter (C)
22. Never Let you go - Kazuo Ishiguro
23. My first New York: early adventures in the big city *NF
24. Kisscut - Karin Slaughter (C)
25. Every last one - Anna Quindlen.
26. The stopping place - Helen Slavin


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