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[-Monday, May 05, 2008-]

Post No:#668

Whoots! I have finally started on my 4th fictional book for 2008!!! Here's a list of what I have finished reading and some of the books I am gonna get/read for this year!

1)The Face of Death by Cody McFayden (4.5/5)

2) Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (2/5)

3) Cross by James Patterson (3/5)

4) T is For Tresspass by Sue Grafton

5) Killing Fear by Allison Brennan

6) 7th Heaven by James Patterson

7) Retribution by Jilliane Hoffman

8) Plea of Insanity by Jilliane Hoffman

9) Blood Brothers by Jack Kerley

10)The Rosary Girls by Richard Montanari

11) The Skin Gods by Richard Montanari

12) Play Dead by Richard Montanari

The first 6 books in bold are the ones I already bought/borrowed, and those that are in italics are the ones I have read! Oh, and by the way, all of them are of the crime/murder genre except Labyrinth...Which I have to say I seriously found boring, the book was slow-paced and the writer was like showing off how much research she has done etc., I only got through half of it before I decided to return it to the library...And I seldom give up on a book like that.

I am like addicted to this genre of book, but I don't really like the ones that lets you know the killer at the start of the book, those are a little boring (like Cross by James Patterson which I finished 3/4 of and returned cause it was too predictable).

Richard Montanari, Cody McFayden, Jilliane Hoffman are seriously AWESOME writers for this genre and are highly recommended by yours truly. Those of you who think that this list is quite a lot since they are like mostly over 500 pages, I really don't think it is, considering I read an average of about...100-130 books in a year when I was still in Secondary School. It's high time I went back into that pace cause I haven't been reading alot these few years, like...3o or less books in a year (not including those research ones for my assignments).

Brissy people, keep a lookout for these books for me ya, so I can get them when I head over ya!??!

Another book I recommend is The Murderers Club by P.D Martin. That reminds me, I think I will get some of her other books as well like Body Count & Fan Mail!!!!!

These books are so gonna cost me...Ouch...Anyways, I will be putting up some "reviews" for these books everytime I finish one. So yea, just wait for them if you are interested or you can check Amazon.co.uk for user reviews as well.

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[-Sunday, August 12, 2007-]

Post No:#543

Hmmm, I think that Ben (homestay's daughter's boyfriend) is mad. It's freaking winter and it's like 13.3 degs C now! And he has the air con turned on, on the highest wind speed! And he is just lying down on the sofa and sleeping with his tank top and jeans! Like WTHECK? And I am freezing my ass off just by stepping outta my room. *For some strange reason, my room is at rather normal temperature, feels like about 23degs? Hahas.*

Anyways, I finished my Physics DRAFT!! LIKE FINALLY!!! But it's not 100% completed, gotta type abit more to finish up. Heh heh...Gotta start on Biology soon, test tomorrow, on 4 chapters!! Someone help me!

This is so totally random, but I bought a book titled The Murderer's Club by P.D Martin, it's about how this group of serial killers formed a club called...The Murderers Club. It's an online community consisting of only 4 serial killers. So they feigned a reality tv show, advertising on newspapers, then picking out the "finalists", via IQ and looks. Cause these serial killers not only kill, they rape too. Out of the 4, only 1 is a woman. Anyways, back to the story, so every week, one victim is chosen to be voted out of the game ala Big Brother (if you know it), and that victim is then bidded on by the killers and who ever is the highest bidder will get that victim. So yea...Oh and I totally forgot about the police. Eh heh, they are definitely involved and managed to catch the killers. I totally love the ending, it's a good twist, I kinda guessed it, but still good! Took me like 2 days to finish the book, I just couldn't put it down once I started. Get it if you like stories about crime, murderers, suspense and basically CSI stuff.

Hmmm...That's one book that I really liked. Oh, and of course Broken Angels by Richard Montanari. Another book about a serial killer and 2 police officers trying to solve the case.

Here's the sypnosis: "When the first body is found, mutilated and strangled on the riverbank, homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano suspect yet another random case of urban violence. Until it happens again. And again. One by one, women are lured to the old Schuylkill River, their violent and increasingly staged deaths the only clues to the killer's twisted imagination. All are wearing oddly old-fashioned dresses, holding a prop of some kind. And each one seems to have a story to tell, speaking of nightmares that are not just the stuff of fairy tales... Desperately, Byrne and Balzano try to uncover the fragile link between the murders, until they realise they are up against two different kinds of evil. A ruthless killer is preying upon the citizens of Philadelphia. And someone else is killing the suspects."

I love the book cause of it's reference to fairy tales. Seems like I have some weird liking towards books on serial killers eh? Anyways, yea, get it if you like CSI stuff and crime/suspense stories.

Those are two books, that I chanced upon, like I was initially not looking for a book, but because I missed the bus or something and have to wait like another 30mins - 1 hour, I decided to get a book. Hmmm...So far, the books that I have read before are really interesting and I don't regret buying them. And what's more, both were discounted items! HAHAS.

Other books I wanna get and their sypnosis

The Stolen Child, Keith Donohue (Dunno who!! Okay...Lame)

The Stolen Child is the story of Henry Day, a seven-year-old kidnapped by a strange group living in the dark forest near his home. No ordinary kidnappers, they are the fairy changelings - ageless beings whose secret community is threatened by encroaching modern life. They give Henry a new name, Aniday, and the gift of agelessness - now and forever, he will be seven years old. In keeping with folk tradition, the group has left another child in Henry's place. This changeling boy, who has morphed himself into Henry's duplicate, must adjust to a completely new way of life and hide his true identity from the Day family. But he can't hide his extraordinary talent for the piano (a skill the real Henry never displayed), and his near-perfect performances prompt his father to suspect that the son he has raised is an imposter. As he grows older the new Henry Day becomes haunted by vague but persistent memories of life in another time and place, of a German piano teacher and his prodigy. Both Henry and Aniday search obsessively for who they were before they changed places in the world.

My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult

Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate - a life and a role that she has never questioned… until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister - and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable… a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.

The Death Collectors, The Broken Souls and Little Girls Lost, Jack Kerley
No, I shall not torture you by putting up 4 large pictures in a row, so yea, go to Amazon.co.uk instead to look at the books. But I will still put up the sypnosises!

The Death Collectors:
This is the second police procedural starring detectives Harry Nautilus and Carson Ryder, the two-man Psychopathological and Sociopathological Investigative Team of the Mobile, Alabama, police force. Their latest disturbing case concerns the murder of a woman whose naked corpse was found in a cheap motel room, covered in flowers and surrounded by candles--including two placed in her eye sockets. The investigation leads to the cult of followers devoted to Marsden Hexcamp, a charismatic artist and extremely perverted psychopath shot dead at his sentencing 30 years ago, and to the underground market for serial killer memorabilia.

The Broken Souls:
A brilliant new psychological serial killer thriller featuring homicide detective Carson Ryder, hero of the bestselling 'The Hundredth Man' and 'The Death Collectors.' Blood was everywhere, like the interior had been hosed down with an artery! The gore-sodden horror that greets homicide detective Carson Ryder on a late-night call out is enough to make him want to quit the case. Too late. Now he and his partner Harry are up to their necks in a Southern swamp of the bizarre and disturbing. An investigation full of twists and strange clues looks like it's leading to the city's least likely suspects - a powerful family whose philanthropy has made them famous. But behind their money and smiles is a dynasty divided by hate. Their strange and horrific past is about to engulf everyone around them in a storm of violence and depravity. And Ryder's right in the middle of it !

Little Girls Lost: The fourth in the bestselling series of psychological thrillers featuring Carson Ryder, the detective with a unique perspective on serial killers. Children are disappearing in Mobile, Alabama, the latest snatched from her own bedroom. There are no clues -- and, as yet, no bodies. Homicide Detective Carson Ryder is called in to investigate the abduction of little LaShelle Shearing only to find the case getting tangled up in murky departmental and civic politics. And with his partner Harry Nautilus fighting for his life after being viciously attacked, Carson is feeling increasingly isolated. Public rage is now reaching dangerous levels, and Ryder's bosses turn for help to ex-Detective Conner Sandhill whose uncanny ability to spot connections and details missed by others is legendary -- but who left the department under a cloud. Ryder and Sandhill form an uneasy alliance in the hunt for the missing children, a hunt which becomes all the more urgent for tragic personal reasons. But at the root of these disappearances is something truly evil! and its source is closer to home than either could have imagined.

Don't really plan to get the first book which is "The Hundredth Man".

Might get these books from the library, especially the last few by Jack Kerley cause I don't know if tjey will be good. Homestay has "My Sister's Keeper" so I might borrow it from them. Still looking for "The Stolen Child" can't find it, might check out Borders.

Anyways, thats it! Time for Biology!

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