Reading- Home Safe

Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg



Helen Ames - recently widowed, coping with loss and grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained her - is beginning to depend far too much on her 27 years old daughter, Tessa, and is meddling in her life, offering unsolicited and unwelcome advice. Helen's problem are compounded by her shocking discovery that her mild-mannered and seemingly loyal husband was apparently leading a double life. The Ameses had painstakingly saved for a happy retirement, but that money disappeared in several large withdrawals made by Helen's husband before he died.

In order to support herself and garner a measure of much needed independence, Helen takes an unusual job that ends up offering far more than she has anticipated. And then a phone call from a stranger sets Helen on a surprising path of discovery that causes both mother and daughter to reassess what they thought they knew about each other, themselves, and what really makes a home and a family.

Reading - Rough House

Rough House by Thaddeus Rutkowski



The narrator's father, a half-mad father, violent Eastern European artistAwaves around a deer rifle and talks about becoming a sniper, between cigarettes, beers, bouts of abusiveness and unpredictable mercy. His Chinese mother is subservient, and much-suffering; she buffers herself from the dysfunctional family by quoting Buddhist wisdom, out of context and badly translated. The narrator's sister runs away from home at 14 to escape her father's incestuous sex play. Enduring the ethnic taunts of neighborhood kids who engage in games of torture and sadism, the narrator turns his rage and neurotic guilt inward: he pours hot melted wax on his skin and puts paper bags over his head and sets them on fire. The novel's second half, in which the narrator escapes from his family, goes to college and moves to New York City, plunges him into sex, drugs and sadomasochistic bondage.

Decoration / Illustration Pen

Let's make your original goods.
For the decoration of the message card.
For the making of the album.
For the wrapping of the present.
Please give the wonderful decorations with your sense
Decorate your miniature craftwork (last photo)

These 3 decoration / illustration pens are now available at my etsy shop : orientalflea

The pattern is shown on the border of its packing. It is easy to use, just like using the correction pen.

Reading - How to Murder a Millionaire

How to Murder a Millionaire by Nancy Martin




Nora,s parents blew the country for a sunny resort that catered to American tax evaders, leaving the family art collection to her sister Emma and the furniture to her other sister Libby. They gave her the land - and a property tax bill for two million dollars.
Which is why she, Nora Blackbird, a former socialite who never really held a job in all her thirty-one years, found herself in dire need of a paycheck ......

Reading - The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001

The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 by Sue Townsend



Adrian Mole has entered early middle age and is now ?the same age as Jesus was when he died' (33). Father to the grammatically challenged Glenn, and William, who takes a ?Big Boy Arouser? condom to nursery school as his innocent contribution to a hot air balloon project, Adrian is a single parent who has an on/off relationship with his housing officer, Pamela Pigg. Will she help him to move from the notorious Gaitskell estate before William joins the Mad Frankie Fraser fan club?In the meantime, Adrian continues to be scandalised by his irresponsible parents who are conducting a matrimonial square-dance with the Braithwaites ? the parents of the beautiful but unobtainable Pandora, who is ruthlessly pursuing her ambition to be New Labour?s first woman P.M. ? and to confide in his diary.His current worries include: indestructible head-lice; his raging jealousy when his accomplished half-brother Brett arrives on his doorstep; moral decline in The Archers; his desperate attachment to two therapists; his mild addiction to Starburst (formerly Opal Fruits); a small earthquake in Leicester; and, perhaps most significantly, the dawn of a new millennium.

Reading - The Pact

The Pact by Jodi Picoult



The Hartes and the Golds, professional folk living next door in an affluent New Hampshire town, are close friends, and their children, the Hartes' son, Chris, and Emily Gold, were born just weeks apart. Inseparable all through childhood, they slipped from the haven of intimate friendship into the tempestuous realm of love in high school, a transition their parents fully expected and welcomed. But Emily is secretly appalled by the incestuous nature of her relationship with Chris, and when she discovers that she is pregnant, she can imagine only one solution: suicide. Chris is with her when she dies and is consequently charged with her murder.

Tow New Size for Swivel Clasps

All these are now available at my Etsy Shop.

Size : D-head with 0.75" inside wide and also the matched D-Ring



Size : D-head with 1" inside wide