I thought to feature an excerpt from THE IMPERFECT EXCERPT, but since Alice already posted a review (Me: Actually, Dewan, I decided to post the review only this weekend so that my review will not “compete” with your post, but readers can still check out the excerpts at your website!) I figured that would be a Kanye West like overkill of shameless self-promotion. Instead I’m sending a short article related to one of the main themes in THE IMPERFECT ENJOYMENT, interracial relationships. Perhaps those of you that have dated outside your ethnic group will find this interesting, or maybe you’ll end up sending Alice a message that reads “What the hell where you thinking when you agreed to feature this weirdo on your site!”

Hope you enjoy: SIX TIPS TO SURVIVE AN INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIP […]

THE READER by Bernhard Schlink (translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway) is written in three parts and in the first-person voice of the 15-year-old Michael Berg. I could not put it down the moment I picked it up. The New York Times says that it is “arresting, philosophically elegant, morally complex...” Focus Munich says that it is “breathtaking” and Los Angeles Times says this: “From the first page, THE READER ensnares both heart and mind.” How true. And oh, I forgot to mention that Elle says this: “Haunting... Memorable... with small moments of highly charged eroticism.”

VISION IN WHITE by Nora Roberts is the first book in the Bride Quartet. Here we meet childhood friends Parker, Emma, Laurel, and Mac, and their love stories. Together, they are the co-owners of Vows, one of Connecticut’s well known wedding planning companies.

Book 1 begins with the story of Mackensie “Mac” Elliot, the lady behind the camera. Her character resonates with me because I’m familiar with the exhilarating feeling of getting behind the camera shooting. [...]

Mac does not believe in happily-ever-afters because she sees the truth in her own family—until Carter Maguire shows up in her life, that is.

Mak Buruk yang tua dan uzur, Tuminah janda muda, Dalim adik Tuminah, Zainab gadis belasan tahun yang dipaksa berkahwin dengan seorang lelaki tiga kali usianya, Tompang yang buta, Basir yang membawa makanan kepada Tuminah dan menidurinya sebagai balasan, merupakan beberapa watak yang terpaut dalam fikiran walaupun telah lama saya habis membaca buku ini.

Air mata turut membasahi pipi apabila terkenang penderitaan sekumpulan orang ini akibat peperangan. […]

CHARLIE AND THE GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR by Roald Dahl is the last book I read for the marathon. The story here continues with the adventures of Charlie Bucket, his family and Mr Willy Wonka—all eight of them shooting into the sky in a glass elevator. And then things get out of control. The glass elevator overshoots and goes into orbit!

THE WITCHES by Roald Dahl is the fourth book I have completed for the Roald Dahl Reading Marathon.

“She” (in the quote above) is the Grand High Witch and along with many other witches, they are having an annual meeting at the same hotel where Boy (we do not know his name) and his grandmother is having a holiday. Boy stumbles into this meeting by accident when he is looking for a quiet spot to train his two pet mice. The meeting room was vacant at first, but soon the participants (a group of ladies) enter. Slowly he realizes that these women are, in fact, witches!