The Places You Will Go

An Affair to Remember

You’d think a novel about a dying woman would be depressing, wouldn’t you? Yet this one isn’t, for it brings to vivid, delirious life a love affair whose consequences reverberated for 40 years.

Young Man Saves the World ... Again

I don't normally post other people's reviews, but I'll make the exception as it's The Dark is Rising by SUSAN COOPER. Also, links to the Star's website go unclickable after a bit and I'm too stupid to fix that ....

P.S The Dark is Rising Sequence is now available in a number of new editions, including a hardback omnibus with a rather nice navy blue cover and silver lettering, but rather tatty paper. I plan to get the box-set (as my softback Puffin omnibus is coming apart at the seams), which features not-too-tacky illustrations. Sorry, but the look of a book is quite important to me as an ugly cover might prove too distracting and distressing. When there's no hope for it, brown paper, or a page out of a magazine, does the trick.

Doll Parts

So what's your stand on boys-and-dolls (and i don't mean the kinky, blow-up variety)? I'm fine if they do play with them and fine if they don't.

My daughter, until recently, disliked dolls (she would throw them across the room), while my sons have always taken great delight in dressing and undressing my posse of My Scene and Bratz dolls (constantly making me wonder if they're colour-blind or simply "innovative" in their pairing of colours).

I have male friends who collect figurines, who get mad when I call their toys dolls: "They're action figures, dammit!"

I like dinosaurs, trains, books, water guns and dolls (my favourites are my Babooshka and my Jesus doll).

Sink Your Teeth In

A human girl and a luscious male vampire decide to go steady. A werewolf offers the girl an alternative (hot-blooded) romance. Obviously, some females attract all the right monsters.

Fan art of Bella and Edward, the human-vampire lovers in Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series.

Junior reading Room

Communicating with someone solely through notes stuck on the fridge door ... isn't that sort of what most of us do, leaving messages on each other's Facebook page?

I have said the weirdest stuff to people on Facebook that I would never dream of saying to their actual face.

Anyway, the usual 25% discount applies for all the featured books (only with the coupon in today's StarTWo).

Reading Room

In this week's roundup of the latest books: time travel, waxing philosophical and a guide to kissing frogs. Kinokuniya Books at Suria KLCC is offering a 25% discount on the tag price of the featured titles - only with the coupon in today's StarTwo.

Junior Reading Room

A lion who loves storytime and a girl who just wants to be a boy are among the stories featured in this week's Junior Reading Room.

After Harry

Yes, there is life after Harry Potter ...

Consider Death

And life. That’s what this book makes you do. It also makes you see your neck in a whole new light....

Harry Potter and the Final Review

I'll never need to read and review another Harry Potter book for as long as I live. However, the last book in the series has given me a taste for more ...