1. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
2. The Smart One and the Pretty One by Claire LaZebnik
3. Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
4. A Place Called Hereby Cecelia Ahern
5. If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern
6. Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
7. Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done by David Allen
8. The Amber Room by Steve Berry
9. Doctors by Erich Segal
10. Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
11. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
12. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding
13. Prizes by Erich Segal
I stopped reading Skinny Bitch because I disagreed that you need to be a vegetarian to become healthy. I started reading A Place Called Here in the car while waiting for parking, but the book was pretty good so I ended up taking it out of the car and reading it a few chapters a night for the whole week.
The premise is actually pretty good. When Sandy Shortt was ten years old, a classmate went missing and was never found. This made her obsessed with lost things, literally turning the house upside down in search of a sock or a toothbrush or anything that went missing. She dedicated her adult life to searching for missing persons, until one day, she goes missing herself. She finds herself in a place where all the lost things go-- including some of the
lost people she'd spent years trying to find. There is a whole other life in this place, as people try to go on with their lives, building families and taking on jobs, working together as a community. But Sandy only wants to go home. The question is, how?
I'm thinking I should probably read something lighter now, like maybe Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin. If I do that though, I'll be left with much heavier stuff to tackle. So I dunno, I'll think about it. Maybe I'll pause on the reading for a while and resume watching Pushing Daisies. It's a pretty interesting series about a guy who has the power to bring people back to live for just one minute. After that, he has to touch them again so that they become dead again-- otherwise, something else must die in its place. It sounds morbid, but it's actually got some dry humor. Plus, I love that the colors are very vivid. It actually reminds me of a movie, but I can't quite figure out what. Maybe Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Johnny Depp version)? Everything is so vibrant, and the voiceover adds a fairytale-like quality to it. I only have Season 1, and I heard that the series will end with Season 2, but maybe that's just right. The story might get ruined if they let it drag on too long.
Wow! This marks the first time my blog actually has pictures! Hooray! :) Signing off for now. :)
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Is the Cecilia Ahern book really good? I was supposed to buy that yesterday; I just bought a Murakami book and want to balance that with a lighter story
ReplyDeleteHey Ingrid! A Place Called Here is the next book in my list. The book cover caught my attention before the story did though (how can you say no to red shiny shoes?). I like the way you write too :)
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MICS: I think you need to manage expectations lang. I made the mistake of telling Melbert about the premise "girl who runs a missing persons agency ends up missing herself" before I even got to the part about the Other World, and he ended up thinking it was a thriller. It actually feels almost like a fairytale. :) Mixed reviews: Ro didn't get past the first chapter, but this is Kris' favorite Ahern book of all time. I can't judge coz this is the first one of hers that I've read. :) But safe to say this is lighter than Murakami. :)
ReplyDeleteAIA: Hello, welcome to my blog! :) Thanks for the compliment, dear. If the cover with red shoes attracted you, you might want to get a copy of this edition as soon as you see it. I'm not sure why they renamed this book, but it's now called "There's No Place Like Here" and this is what's usually in the bookstores now. Mass market paperback edition pa. Boo.