the undomestic goddess - sophie kinsella

funny, hearty, endearing... boy do i wish that when i'm stressed out i could do the same as the hot babe here... she just walks out of her high powered job, and la de da..... ends up taking a job as a housekeeper? the girls who can't cook, clean or sew, learns with the help of gardener cum boyfriends mom... and has most people fooled for a while... till both her worlds clash.

entertaining... but personally i preferred the other books... shopaholic n sister...

lethal seduction- jackie collins

got this cheap in mph... served my bungled up journey well, finished it in... 6 or 7 hours. hehe ... does a good job of filling in the hours.

about 3 hot shot 29 year old ladies, the people they're involved with, and getting their own thing. part hollywood, party new york... not exactly funny, but as i said... fills in the hours pretty well.

hmm shall i get her other books going cheap? :)

gentle warrior - julie garwood

beautiful romance set in king williams time. the heroine is a golden haired beauty, who vows to avenge the murders of her entire family which she has witnessed. living out of doors, she stumbles upon a fallen lord, who needs her skills in healing, and lo and behold, upon recovery, he is the knight who vanquishes her enemy, though after he marries her, and both discover that yes! they do love each other. well alls well in this happy tale, enemy defeated, remaining family reunited, and hero and heroine live happily ever after.

nice to read a typical historical romance after a long time.

stonehenge- bernard cornwell

hmm.... set in ancient times where the sun god and moon god were still worshipped, and human sacrifices were still rampant,it tells the tale of rathrynn, ( the current location of stonehenge ) and its surrounding localites, the feuds and wars between the tribes, and how the temple dedicated to the sun god was built, the ruins of which make the stonehenge of today.

we see the daily lives of the warriors, priests, chieftains and builders, through the eyes of saban, a son of a chieftain, brother to a cripple who goes on to become a priest, and also a warrior brother who eventually murders his father for the sake of being chief. saban grows up, passes the rites of manhood, almost gets married but ends up a slave, and is then freed, to become a builder. the story goes through his life and shows how it ends. his loves, his struggles, hopes and dreams, and how he accomplishes the monumental task of building the great sun temple.

pandora- anne rice

truly scary in the sense that this is one vampire book which can bore me in some places. seriously, dude... mixing philosophy, ancient rome, egypt... with blood drinkers... gee.
think i'll stick to.... hmm.... christopher pike? though i read that ages ago.... as a teenager.

when the wind blows- james patterson

modern day sci-fi adventure... read about max, a brilliant, pretty, eleven year old girl who can fly... courtesy of wings... a genetically induced development by a bunch of unscrupulous doctors and scientists. she grows up in a lab/ school which is home to her and would not have known otherwise, had she not escaped... after the school was terminating certain projects... i.e. other fellow children like her.
she eventually befriends a dedicated veterinarian and an fbi agent who help her and others like her.
yup all the goody goody stuff. a catchy read.

the tent of orange mist- paul west

Scald Ibis is a 15 yr old teenager in Nanking, China, when China is taken over by the Japanese hundreds of years ago. Her own house is taken over by the Japanese, and she raped, along with the rest of the females all over China. Her mother used such then killed, her brother killed too. Of that she does not learn, merely that her family has disappeared ( her father, a learned calligrapher, put to the front ) and that now she is alone with other girls in a similar fate, to be "used" such by japanese troops till one commanding officer takes a liking to her and she is freed of her 'obligations'... only to learn to become a 'geisha', or rather, an imitation of the famous japanese geishas, those ladies who sing, dance, mime, recite poetry, pour tea, and organise events. In the course of her survival in the 'tent of orange mist', the new place her house has become, she actually meets her father... who is but the new houseboy in disguise; forced to turn a blind eye in order to stay alive and be close to his daughter. this takes a turn on him, as it does any father, and he is killed towards the end of the story, though, after he has his revenge on the japanese officer whose 'protection' his daughter is under.
this is a sombre read at times. half way through i watched this dvd, memoirs of a geisha- heard its book was better from a friend. hmm. might have preferred that!