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Wow! I can hardly believe it’s August.  July was a good month in more ways than one and I’m sure you all had fun with last month’s book of the month. The book of the month for August is Can You Keep a Secret by Sophie Kinsella. Emma Corrigan is a young lady with a huge heart, a nervous flyer and more than a few secrets. Sitting on a turbulent plane and thinking it might be her last moments, she starts spewing her secrets with reckless abandon to the American gentleman sitting next to her on the plane, but she’s too frightened to even notice. She tells him all her fibs about her size, how she is not sure she has a g-spot, how the coffee at work is horrible, how she once threw a trouble client file in the bin, just to mention a few. She survives the turbulence and finds out the next day at work that the American from the plane is her new boss at the mega corporation which she works for. She soon realizes that he remembers everything she said on the flight . Things c...

Fiction addicts get in here!!! It's  a new month and we are done with the first half of the year. We may not have met our targets and goals for the first half of the year but surely we made some progress and we should be thankful for that. Anyone notice how it's always raining these days? Well I love it when it rains. It's a good time to snuggle up in bed with a good book and several cups of coffee. Unfortunately I'm writing this post at my desk in the office, therefore perish every thought of snuggling up in bed. The books of  the  month of July are After You by Jojo Moyes and Hedge Fund Wives  by Tatiana Boncompagni. After You by Jojo Moyes is the sequel to Me before You which we read in February and it takes off soon after Me before You ended. Lou's taken a job in an Irish themed bar at the airport. She's also bought a flat with some of the money Will left her. After having drank so much wine , one night she climbs to the roof top of...

Happy “not so” new month fiction addicts. You can’t begin to imagine how so unhappy and sorry I am for not having posted the book for the month.  My day job that’s fast becoming my 24hr job is responsible for this. Being a lawyer  takes up so much time and the results can be sometimes annoying. Well for now it pays the bills. Shall I complain? I think not so. I’m pretty sure we had double the fun reading the books of the previous month. The book of this month is long overdue and I’m terribly sorry being late on this post. But you know the saying better late than never is also applicable. This month we’ll be reading A Sudden Change of Heart by Brabara Taylor Bradford About the book: Laura Valiant  and Claire Benson have known each other since childhood and spent their girlhood summers together on Laura’s farm in Connecticut. Many years later both women become successful, wealthy and happy. Laura ...

Cheers to the new month Fictionaddicts! April was such a fantastic month. I had one of the best holidays and I’m sure we all put the Easter holidays to good use by spending quality time with family, friends, loved ones and some good books. Well it’s May Day today.  Happy May Day!!!! It’s a holiday preceded by a weekend and what better day to start reading a new book (*winks*). I’m particularly happy because I get to spend the whole day reading. NO WORK DEADLINES whatsoever. This month we’ll be reading not one book, but two books! Drumroll pleaseeee…. 1.      The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella 2.       One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell.  So, I guess we are all in for double the fun and enjoyment! The Undomestic Goddess: Miss Samantha Sweeting is a workaholic lawyer in London on her way to becoming Partner at Carter Spink. She has put in seven years of determination, hard work, billable...

World Book Day is a day set aside by the United Nations Educational, Sceintific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to promote reading, publishing and copyright. It is celebrated annually on  23 rd April. The importance of reading can’t be over emphasized on a day like this. Reading exposes the reader to a world of imagination and communication. It is by reading that one can learn and gain experience and knowledge. Reading helps improve understanding and exposes the reader to new things and ideas. Little wonder it is then that once we learn to read, we just have an insatiable desire to go on and never stop. It is important to introduce kids to reading at an early age particularly the formative years. Researchers have found that little kids who are read to, have better activated mental imagery and understanding which are key to development of language and literacy. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies…The man who never reads lives only one.” – Geroge R...

C lassics in literature are those works which have somehow found a way to stand the test of time. In fact it seems that no matter how many decades or centuries ago they were first published, they never go out of style.I happened to be curious enough to find out what qualifies a work of fiction as classic. I discovered that there are diverse opinions on the subject.  Some persons are of the opinion that what qualifies as a classic is decided by the bookstore owner, librarian and so on. Another school of thought opined that any book published before 1960 is a classic. According to Esther Lombardi,  About.com’s resident classics literature guide, “A classic usually expresses some artistic quality—an expression of life, truth and beauty. The work is usually considered to be a representation of the period it was written; and the work merits lasting recognition. In other words, if the book was published in the recent past, the work’s not a classic. A classi...

Hey fiction addicts !!! Welcome to April. In some other parts of the world it's spring. But here in Nigeria, where I come from it’s ….……. Oh, well I don’t even know what season we are in. I just know that the weather is terribly hot and the sun is scorching. I can’t wait for the rainy season, so I can have a hot cup of coffee and snuggle up with lots of books. Anyways I hope you enjoyed the last book of the month and as you know it’s that time of the month when we unveil the book of the month. The book of the month for April is The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout published in March 2013 by Random House Publishers.  The Burgess boys , Jim and Bob are on the verge of a mid life crisis. Both are lawyers practicing in New York . They are however remembered in their hometown for the accident caused by Bob that killed their father and changed their lives forever. Their sister Susan, stayed back in their h...