My Parisian Spring

Having never been to [the] French capital in springtime, I was really looking forward to my business trip, although my colleagues there warned me that it’d been raining quite a bit.
Well, the journey there via London was uneventful but the beautiful and sunny Sunday afternoon was partially wasted due to a baggage delay. But I […]

Print to screen: Atonement, Age of Innocence

I made a mistake by watching the movie first before I finished reading the multiple award-winning, critically acclaimed novel Atonement by Ian McEwan.  Admittedly, the movie moved the story along a little faster, and intrigued me from the beginning with its casting of Keira Knightley as the lead actress, long before I set eyes on […]

All abuzz in Bookland

For a long time now, I’ve resisted ‘talking shop’ on my blog.  I mean, enough of talking about online marketing at work already … I should give it a rest when I’m back home, shouldn’t I?
But when I see how vibrant the book publishing industry is becoming, with readers, publishers and authors getting into the […]

Clean Bill of Health

After two more weeks of tinkling and monitoring, I’m finally pleased to announce that In My Books is finally comment spam free and hacks free. Great big thank you to Keishon for sending through this great plug-in to keep the spammers away. 
And to the users at WP forums for all the advice and sharing their […]

Book Review: Elijah, Caressed by Ice, Warrior Rising

The month of May was as much about celebrating differences as fantasy serials. The three paranormal/ fantasy romance reads I finished had relationships that involved protagonists who come from different worlds/ races and time/ century.
Elijah is the third in the Nightwalkers paranormal romance series by Jacquelyn Frank and boy did she have a bombshell of […]