by Sophie Kinsella I think most women can relate to this first book of the Shopaholic Series. Most of us enjoys shopping as a form of therapy. When stressed out, we shop. When we feel sad and lonely, we shop. We shop ’till we drop. Who doesn’t want all those good stuff? All that and…
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I’m fond of reading chick literature or chick lit (as others call it) lately. Women have become more assertive of their roles in society nowadays and some of it have been used as examples in chick lit books. Sometimes, because of these books, we get to expose some of the women’s issues like violence against…
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by Alexandra Potter He’s every woman’s fantasy… After a string of disastrous relationships, Emily Albright has had it with modern men. She’d rather curl up with Pride and Prejudice and step into a time where men were honourable and strode across fields in breeches, their damp shirts clinging into their chests. The men she meets…
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by Khaled Hosseini This is a story of fathers and sons, friendship and betrayal, and the casualties of fate. In the 1970s, Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that…
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This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But one fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his father – and she dies while he is…
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My father became my biggest influence when it comes to reading books. I started with picture books and when I learned how to read he’d buy me lots of “Lady Bug” books. It’s actually a fairy tale book with huge texts – just for kids (and young-at-heart too!). He would teach me the right way…
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