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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Re-organization Sale of my ETSY shop

One of my ETSY shops : oriental flea is now having a sale of the Woven Jacquare Trim for my partner and I want to re-organize the goods supply in this shop.

Please visit and have a look.

Reading - Size 14 Is Not Fat Either

Size 14 Is Not Fat Either by Meg Cabot

Heather Wells, a teen music idol turned student-life employee at NYU-like New York College, a cheerleader in Heather's dorm turns up dead—or, at least her head turns up, stewed almost beyond recognition in a cafeteria pot. Lindsay Combs was bubbly and popular, but as Heather digs deeper, she learns that Lindsay wasn't all sweetness and light. She slept around and was involved with obnoxious fraternity boys who made pin money dealing drugs. If solving Lindsay's murder isn't enough to keep Heather busy, her father, recently released after a 20-year prison sentence, shows up on her doorstep, looking for a renewed relationship and a place to stay. The roster of suspects is underdeveloped, and the denouement is both predictable and implausible, but Heather's charm and wit amply compensate.

Friday, January 30, 2009

Reading - The Painted Veil

The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham

Shallow, poorly educated Kitty marries the passionate and intellectual Walter Fane and has an affair with a career politician, Charles Townsend, assistant colonial secretary of Hong Kong. When Walter discovers the relationship, he compels Kitty to accompany him to a cholera-infested region of mainland China, where she finds limited happiness working with children at a convent. But when Walter dies, she is forced to leave China and return to England. Generally abandoned, she grasps desperately for the affection of her one remaining relative, her long-ignored father. In the end, in sharp, unexamined contrast to her own behavior patterns, she asserts that her unborn daughter will grow up to be an independent woman.

The Painted Veil was first published in 1925 and is usually described as a strong story about a woman's spiritual journey.