In My Hands Today…

Posted on November 12, 2019 by memoriesandsuch

The Hamilton Case – Michelle de Kretser

A flamboyant beauty who once partied with the Prince of Wales and who now, in her seventh decade, has “gone native” in a Ceylonese jungle.

A proud, Oxford-educated lawyer who unwittingly seals his own professional fate when he dares to solve the sensational Hamilton murder case that has rocked the upper echelons of local society.

A young woman who retreats from her family and the world after her infant brother is found suffocated in his crib.

These are among the linked lives compellingly portrayed in a novel everywhere hailed for its dazzling grace and savage wit – a spellbinding tale of family and duty, of legacy and identity, a novel that brilliantly probes the ultimate mystery of what makes us who we are.

2019 Week 46 Update

Posted on November 11, 2019 by memoriesandsuch

This was such a hectic week that I am hurting all over.

I had an event which was supposed to end around 8:30 pm and at 10 pm there were still some guests in the room refusing to leave. We managed to get them to leave and then left the place.

The O levels are winding down and we are all getting into holiday mode. S leaves for his pilgrimage at the end of the week so we are also packing for his trip this week.

This week will be a more chill week and then it’s party time!

Have a wonderful week folks!!

2019 Secondary 4 Week 46 Update

Posted on November 10, 2019 by memoriesandsuch

For the past two years the O levels is all that the children have heard, both from school and home. Now we’re down to the last exams and finally the journey is coming to an end.

The exams this week were a mixed bag for both of them, but we are trying not to dwell on exams which are over and prefer to focus on the ones that need to be studied for.

After the exams, both GG & BB will start preparing for their farewell prom which they have been anticipating. It’s a chance to let down their hair and have some fun before we fly off for our holiday.

Happy Sunday folks!

In My Hands Today…

Posted on November 9, 2019 by memoriesandsuch

Bitter Almonds – Laurence Cossé

Edith can hardly believe it when she learns that Fadila, her sixty-year-old housemaid, is completely illiterate.

How can a person living in Paris in the third millennium possibly survive without knowing how to read or write? How does she catch a bus, or pay a bill, or withdraw money from the bank? Why it’s unacceptable!

She thus decides to become Fadila’s French teacher. But teaching something as complex as reading and writing to an adult is rather more challenging that she thought.

Their lessons are short, difficult, and tiring. Yet, during these lessons, the oh-so-Parisian Edith and Fadila, an immigrant from Morocco, begin to understand one other as never before, and from this understanding will blossom a surprising and delightful friendship. Édith will enter into contact with a way of life utterly unfamiliar to her, one that is unforgiving at times, but joyful and dignified.