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In My Hands Today…..

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These are the books I have read since Sunday….

The Smart One and the Pretty One – Claire LaZebnik

Smart, successful Ava Nikerson is closing in on thirty and has barely had a date since law school. When a family crisis brings her prodigal little sister Lauren back to Los Angeles, Lauren stumbles across a forgotten document – a contract their parents jokingly drawn up years ago betrothing Ava to their friends’ son. Fustrated and embarrassed by Ava’s constant lectures abut financial responsibility (all because she’s in a little debt. Okay, a lot of debt), Lauren decides to do some sisterly interfering of her own and tracks down her sister’s childhood fiance. When she finds him, the highly inappropriate, twice-divorced, but incredibly charming Russell Markowitz is all too happy to reenter the Nikerson sisters’ lives. And always-accountable Ava will soon realise just how binding a contract can be…

Never After – Laurell K. Hamilton

The bonds of love…the bonds of matrimony…the bonds between husband and wife…Some bonds are meant to be broken. Here, for the first time ever, are four stories based on the classic idea of the “Faerie Tale Wedding” – except this time the damsels aren’t the ones in distress. #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton spins a story of a princess who decides to take her own destiny in hand and rescue a pampered Prince Charming from an evil sorceress in “Can He Bake a Cherry Pie”. A selkie on the run from a century-old broken marriage arrangement has finally found true love – only to have the darkness from her past return to threaten both her and her dearly beloved in New York Times bestselling author Yasmin Galenorn’s “The Shadow of Mist”. New York Times bestselling author Marjorie M. Liu tells the tale of a young princess who escapes a betrothal to a warlord by entering a magical forest. But when an evil queen sends her on a questto “The Tangleroot Palace”, she faces dangers more perilous than marriage. When a princess refuses her boring betrothed, the king holds a competition to see who will win his daughter’s hand. But in matters of the heart, is a winner truely worthy – or can a loser offer even more in international bestselling author Sharon Shinn’s “The Wrong Bridegroom”

In My Hands Today…..

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Ok, here is a confession – I am a bookworm and I can read books like it’s going out of fashion! I am almost never without a book in my hand, hence the title of this series. I usually borrow books from the library every weekend and since each card lets you take 6, I borrow my full quota and at times, if S or the kids are not using their quota, eat into those too. During school holidays in order to encourage children to read, the libraries have the Drop Everything And Read (DEAR) thing going, which basically allows you to double up your books quota. When that happens, I am in book heaven since this means I can borrow 12 books on my card alone!!

Since I used to put down the list of books I read in the other tab and it didn’t work out, this time what I thought of doing was put the blurb of the book plus a picture of the book cover (I got this idea from a blog I browsed today). This also lets me know what I actually read.  But be warned, since I go through an average of 5-6 books a week, so this type of post will happen almost daily! Some days it can be two books in a post also. So here is what is in my hands today…

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? – Agatha Christie

Was it a misstep that sent a handsome stranger plummeting to his death from a cliff? Or something more sinister? Fun-loving adventurers Bobby Jones and Frances Derwent’s suspicions are certainly aroused – especially since the man’s dying words were so peculier: Why didn’t they ask Evans? Bobby and Frances would love to know. Unfortunately, asking the wrong people has sent the amateur sleuths running for their lives – on a wild and deadly pursuit to discover who Evans was and what it was he wasn’t asked, and why the mysterious enquiry has put their own lives in mortal danger….

Books…Books…Books

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Today I decided to start a new page on this blog about the books that I have read. I have always loved books and can’t remember a time when I was without a book. I usually read around 4-6 books on an average per week. This means that I’ve read around 2000 books (give or take a few hundreds) in the last 10 years that I’ve been here. Wow!

When I first came to Singapore around 10 years back, I was amazed by the public library system and totally fell in love with it. For someone like me who needs books as much I need food and air, and who came from a country with no real access to books nearby, this was like something of a revelation! Of course since the time I finished with school, I was a faithful member of both the British Council Library as well as the American Center Library in my hometown. I used to borrow 4 books each (the maximum allowed) for about 3 weeks at a time.

I’m an indiscriminate reader and read all genres with the exception of Science Fiction. For some reason SF is something that has not really appealed to me and believe me I have tried reading them at different points in life to. I love reading historical novels, romances, chick-lit, Asian novelists, travelogues, humor, action, and just about anything in between depending on my mood at the moment. I am also trying to cultivate a love for reading in the doctor (D) and the pilot (P). So far it does look like they like reading, but then reading has stiff competition from the idiot box (television) and the computer/Internet.