Hot Stuff
There is never a dull moment in any of Elaine Fox’s novels and this includes HOT STUFF. This is a fun book and it has certainly made me laugh. After many failed romances, the thirty-something Laurel who is a writer for DC Scene decides that enough is enough and so gives up on falling in love. She thinks that “arranging” her own marriage would be a better idea. Her thinking is fueled by the book her demanding editor, Rulinda insists that she reads. The book is entitled Love Is Not the Answer.
The male protagonist in this book is Joe who is a witty, good looking guy. He owns a coffee cart outside of Laurel’s office.
Coraline
CORALINE by Neil Gaiman is a story for children but it is a rather dark one. I loved it.
Coraline is a little girl who lives with her parents in a huge old house together with other people who share the same house. Those other people are two old former actresses named Miss Spink and Miss Forcible who own three dogs, and an old man Coraline calls ‘the crazy old man’.
She loves to explore her surroundings.
Fahrenheit 451
FAHRENHEIT 451 is a classic written by Ray Bradbury. The novel is originally a short story entitled “The Fireman” published in the Galaxy Science Fiction in 1951 and two years later expanded into Fahrenheit 451. It’s a story about books and it’s not a happy one, because you see, it’s a crime to possess books and if anyone is found to keep them in their houses or read them, they will be reported and everything will be burned to ashes—the books, the house, and sometimes even the owners. Why? Because books give readers ideas of unhappiness, pain, suffering—they are evil.
Normally firemen put out fire but in Bradbury’s story, they don’t. Instead, the firemen start them in order to burn books. As indicated by the title Fahrenheit 451, the numbers 451 is the identification of a particular fireman in the story […]
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.