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Tuesday, 20 July 2010

18. In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner


This is a story about 2 sisters Rose and Maggie who have absolutely nothing in common except for their shoe sizes.

Elder sister Rose has everything going on for her with a high profile lawyer job, a good looking boyfriend, lots of money. She also has loads of designer shoes but never wears them as she is insecure about her weight and just stacks it up in her closet.
The younger sister is a good looking and good for nothing kind. She has dyslexia and lack of confidence in herself and has difficulties finding a job. She stays mostly on her father and step mother's money and at times with her sister.
This goes on until one day Rose comes home and finds Maggie in bed with her boyfriend which leads to big altercation between them and she throws Maggie out of her house.

The younger sister now finds herself on street with nowhere to go when she finds a letter from her grandmother in Florida amongst her old stuff. And so she goes to stay with her grandmother.
The rest of the story is about how the sisters find their true characters and how they really need each other in their lives and how they make amends with each other and their past.

This is truly an endearing and a heart warming story and anyone who has a sister can actually connect with this one even more.
And also for people who are really lazy to read a book they can see the movie which was made with the same title starring Toni Collette and Cameron Diaz as the Elder and Younger sisters.


Sunday, 18 July 2010

17. Doomsday Conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon


I only have 2 questions to the author..

A) Are you kidding me?
and
B) Are you frikkin kidding me ??

This is the story line.
An alien spacecraft crashes on some fields of Switzerland. A tourist bus going through that area stops and 11 people witness the event.
The NSA eliminates all of these witnesses one by one in the name of National Security and the man responsible for this bloody trail finds himself running for life at the end.
Does he escape or not forms the second half of the book.

The fact that none of these tourists managed to get a single picture of the event and the only one who does get few pics ends up dead in a fire at his home along with all the pictures sounds far fetched.
And get this, the aliens supposedly come to earth to warn the officials of all major countries that we should stop polluting the atmosphere and close all industries else they would wage a war against us.

The whole concept sounds ridiculous but it does manage to get one point across. Global Warming. It's definitely a nice thought that other aliens care more about the place where we live in than us humans can ever.