The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME is Mark Haddon’s debut novel and it’s beautifully written in the first-person narration. The story is about a fifteen-year-old autistic boy named Christopher John Francis Boone who is mathematically gifted but socially hopeless. He is superbly logical and sees everything literally based on patterns, rules and diagrams. You’ll be able to observe this by the way the book is being written.
One night, Christopher sees his neighbor’s poodle, Wellington, lying on the grass. He takes a look and finds the poor pooch killed by a garden fork. […]
April 23: Administrative Professionals Day
I wish all my colleagues and friends who are administrative professionals (personal assistants, executive assistants, secretaries, administrator, office managers, clerks, and everyone who is an admin in one way or another):
HAPPY ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS DAY!
Dingo
This is the first time I’m reading the work of Charles de Lint and am happy to say I’m not disappointed. DINGO holds my attention from the beginning to the end, and it speaks to me throughout like a friend.
Seventeen-year-old Miguel Schreiber meets an unusual new-girl-in-town named Lainey and her large dog named Em. Lainey is pretty with red-gold hair and so is the fur of her dog. […]
Neverwhere
NEVERWHERE by Neil Gaiman is an interesting read. When Richard Mayhew saves a young girl from a London sidewalk, his life changes from normal to literally, abnormal. The young girl, whose name is Door, comes from “London Below” where she escapes from two hired killers. The two killers are known as Mr Croup and Mr Vandemar, and they’d killed everybody in Door’s family.
Following the good deed, Richard’s fiancée chucks him, he lost his wonderful job at a securities firm, he lost his apartment; he very nearly loses his mind too.
Beware of Doug
BEWARE OF DOUG by Elaine Fox is a funny read and totally enjoyable. The book is one of the many chick-flicks my sister brought back from Sydney and is now mine.
Lily Tyler is the landlord and neighbor to the sexy private jet pilot Brady Cole. On Brady’s first day in the neighborhood, a crazy but beautiful woman named Tricia whom Brady knows shows up in her BMW and gives him hell. So you see, Lily and Brady’s first meeting was quite dramatic.
Blood Brothers (Book 1)
BLOOD BROTHERS by Nora Roberts is the first book of the Sign of Seven Trilogy. I’ve been looking forward to her latest work and this is my wish come true. Being able to finally read her again is satisfying. I’ve read four of her trilogies with short intervals in between, I have to say this is not her best work but then it’s too early to tell. Blood Brothers is still a good read but I’m not breaking out in songs over this one.
Usually, each book in the NR trilogies is filled with romance that makes you beam and radiate happiness. This one, though, has less of that. Instead, it focuses more on the background of evil that has befallen Hawkins Hollow […]
Eragon
ERAGON (503 pages) by the young Christopher Paolini will take you on an exhilarating, dangerous, and magical journey—a journey that will unveil his destiny as a Dragon Rider. This is Book 1 of the Inheritance Trilogy and it’s highly readable. When I discovered that Paolini was only fifteen when he started writing the book, I was even more amazed. I loved what he has done with the characters and how each event unfolds.
Readers will be able to see Eragon’s progression from a brash young fifteen-year-old farm boy to a more mature sixteen-year-old warrior when the time comes for him to face the battle.