Moments...

Awww weekends just flash by and before even I blink my eyes I have this Monster Monday standing threatening to be the Munday !! Oh I hate it HATE Mondays. And I saw today - Do things differently...OK let me do it differently, let the week begin at Tuesday and ....Instead of me cribbing here I know what I will do...something different...I will go and locate another case of Munday and share my blues....Off I go...

"There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?" Thats how the movie begins and you sit up and watch as the movie unfolds the supply and demand of ..."... this isn't about the alcohol or tobacco." (We're with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.) yup...its about the firearms! "Selling guns is like selling vacuum cleaners; you make calls, pound the pavement, take orders. I was an equal-opportunity merchant of death; I supplied to every army but the Salvation Army. I sold Israeli-made Uzis to Muslims...I delivered Communist-made bullets to fascists...I even shipped cargo to Afghanistan while they were fighting my fellow Soviets. I never sold to Osama bin Laden—not on any moral grounds; back then, he was always bouncing checks." The "I" above is Nicolas cage as Yuri Orlov the arms dealer - "What's he...

This short novel by Julia Green is a story about Mia - a teenage-would-be-mom. This book was picked by my friend and I thought why not give it a try. After all once in a blue moon I ought to read some different books :) The story revolves around Mia - her mother walking out, her dad bringing her up, teenage love, school time, friends, strangers and everything that a teenager faces...even being a teenage would be mom. Everybody knew what Mia should do...but did Mia know or follow them...does her way of doing things or the decisions she makes happens for good or...once in a blue moon...

This is yet another historical fiction and like its said about all historical fictions, you never know where history ends or fiction begins or vice versa . In spite of that, this novel by Jed Rubenfeld is interesting and gives insights on Hamlet and Freudian theory - Psychoanalysis. Two very unlikely subject woven together that's what it seemed but the author Jed has actually done a Thesis on Freudian theories and has acted in Shakespearean plays which pretty much says his grasp of both subjects. There are some disturbing narrations of murders and some boring and not-so-easy-to-understand-sections which if skipped makes it an interesting read :D

Everyday promises us a new beginning. The waves lashing the shores clears all marks of foot prints from the shores and recedes leaving a clean slate for new foot prints to be made or create new castles....thats the way life does....A story about how a daughter maligned by her choices in life is given a second chance - a new life to begin with....and what she does with this choice... This is a memoir written by both father and daughter duo, Ron and Carren Clem, a moving tale of parent and children relationship how drugs - meth overshadows everything else in life. The memoirs gives us perspective of both father and daughter and thus makes us understand what each one thought while playing their respective roles as a parent and a child. Ron as a parent shares with us the difficulty they have to face when a child comes into their life without any user guide and manual...to be dealt with by the new parents (without any schooling in rearing children) through hit and trial...they like other pa...

This historical fiction, thats what its said to be, by Tracy Chevalier is an engrossing piece of work. The reason its called so coz it fictionalizes the circumstances under which the painting by the same name Girl with a Pearl Earring was created by Vermeer . This is yet another of the stories of living as a maid that I had read . Yet another teenager walks into an mansion and works as a maid forced by poverty. The struggle to cope with the new surrounding far away from the warmth of home. The loyalty shown to the masters even if it means downfall for the maid herself. I specially loved the sections where the novel describes how the painting is done, the settings, the thoughts going behind the person modeling for the painting and all. All is described so vividly that at times I found myself in the studios amidst easel smelling the canvass and the oil. Great book, must read.

Back again with another series of quotes....I never seem to be run out of them :D Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity. - Albert Einstein It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night. - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal There is no dog! – Anonymous Atheist Dyslexic People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Kierkegaard Give me control over a nation’s currency, and I care not who makes its laws. - Mayer Amschel Rothschild You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you are doing is work or play. - Warren Beatty Some luck lies in not getting what you though...

This novel by Jennie Walters is the first book in the 'Swallowcliffe Hall' series. Swallowcliffe Hall is a large palatial building set out in some English Country site. The story revolves around a teenager - Polly Perkins a cheerful, hard-working sort of person who got things done - working as a housemaid in the Hall. The story is written in the first person narration by Polly and its very interesting. Her fear of staying alone, far away from home, being bullied by other maids, and how she makes friends with the Aristocrat family ladies and children and other maids in the Hall. All in all a very interesting read and un-put-downable. Now I am planning to even try and read the other books in the series. The next one deals with Polly's gal - Grace - head strong gal and the last one with her grand child Isabel - a dreamer. All working as maids in Hall.