Shopaholic Abroad – Sophie Kinsella

image via FantasticFiction.co.uk Shopaholic Abroad (also called Shopaholic takes Manhattan) is the second book in the best-selling Shopaholic series, by Sophie Kinsella. This time, Rebecca Bloomwood, the shopaholic, moves to New York, where her boyfriend, Luke, has made a deal. She also has a chance to work there. New York is a shopping paradise for [...]

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Quizlet – great for studying

Today, I’ve discovered a highly efficient website, Quizlet, which allows you to create your own flashcards and study them or play other flashcards created by users in order to prepare for tests or quizzes. I’m giving this site 5 stars and it deserves to be linked at my sidebar. It’s also very easy to use. [...]

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Book meme from Booking through Thursday

Hello, this is my first meme which I found on Books Worth Reading. Click here (Booking through Thursday) to do it youself and find other memes. I’m tagging Meghna and the authors of Taking it further. What was the last book you bought? The last e-book I bought was Atonement by Ian McEwan. Actually I [...]

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One Hundred years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Today I have accomplished a great achievement – I’ve finished reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, a novella by the noted Colombian author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who has written other great works including Chronicle of a Death Foretold – which I’ve already read and appreciated, and Love in the Time of Cholera. I found One [...]

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The Diamond Girls – Jacqueline Wilson

image via http://www.readingmatters.co.uk/book.php?id=258 A classmate lent me The Diamond Girls by Jacqueline Wilson (thanks); I’ve just finished reading it, so here’s the review. The Diamond Girls is a heart-warming story about 4 sisters, Martine (the eldest), Judy, Rochelle, and Dixie (the youngest), who live with their mother, Sue, who is pregnant with a boy. They [...]

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