Book: Me and Mr Darcy

Me and Mr Darcy
Alexandra Potter
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He's every woman's fantasy...

After a string of disastrous relationships, Emily Albright has had it with modern men.

She'd rather curl up with Pride and Prejudice and step into a time where men were honorable and strode across fields in breeches, their damp shirts clinging to their chests. The men she meets are more into pleated trousers, two-timing and internet porn.

So when her best friend invites her to Mexico for a week of margaritas and manhunting, Emily books a guided tour of Jane Austen country instead.

There are no dream men here. The coach is full of pensioners, apart from one Spike Hargreaves, a foul-tempered journalist writing a piece on why most women would love to date Mr Darcy.

But then she walks into a room and finds herself face-to-face with Darcy himself. And every woman's fantasy suddenly becomes one woman's reality...

Alexandra Potter makes dreams come true in this fun, feel-good fairy-tale about life, love and dating literature's most eligible bachelor.

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There's really not much I could say about the book. It's not bad, I actually liked it.  Simply Pride and Prejudice, retold in modern times, with a dash of mystery. It was fun while it lasted.

Book: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine #1)
Ransom Riggs
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16-year-old Jacob has discovered the ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores the abandoned building, he realises that the children were more than just peculiar - they may have been dangerous. And somehow - impossible though it seems - they may still be alive.

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I read one of the reviews on Goodreads that said this book was somewhat like the X-men academy, which I thought was rather fitting. However, since I haven't really watched/followed much of X-Men, I didn't find this book repetitive or copy-cat-ish.

I thought this book was rather delightfully spooky. Before the big reveal, the photos were pretty much spooky and horror-inducing. However, after the big reveal, the spookiness of it all dissipates and turns into a standard adventure-esque story.

I enjoyed the book while it still had that spooky mysterious air to it. By the time the spookiness went away though, the characters have pretty much grown on me, especially Millard so it was easy for me to read on.

I already have book 2 on hand (I bought the boxed set) so I can continue the adventure now!

Quick life updates

Made a quick trip to Hong Kong yesterday for a placement interview, as I applied for a German class. The class itself isn't expensive, but the trips to Hong Kong are going to be expensive.

Anyway, the secretary of that school sort of made it worse for me. I had my eye on a course that was intensive, 6 hours a day (Sundays) running for 4 weeks. It was of level A1-4, and I said I wanted to apply for that. I figured despite my German being shit, I must be around that level, because I am not going to start at A1-1.

Secretary said no, I should do a placement, so I had to wait (intensive course had run 2 weeks already), and after my interview with the professor, what do you know, I could go to A1-4 or A2-1, but I'd have to do a lot of homework if I went for the A2-1 option. I much preferred the A1-4, but had already missed half the intensive course, so that was a no go. In the end, I'm going to start on 29-October, regular 3-hour session course running for 9 weeks. (That's 5 extra ferry round trips, argh, Miss Secretary, why did you do that to me)

The whole of last week was rainy and typhoony and messed up my whole running schedule. I hope this week it gets better so I can get back on track.

New exciting thing happening in town? Coming Monday 22-August, Wynn Palace Macau is opening! One of my travel buddy friends works there, so she had been particularly busy lately. After the opening, maybe she will have more time and we can start planning for our trip as well.

In case you are interested, *points up* a video tour thingie for Wynn Palace. I'm just not sure about that Gorilla thing, doesn't feel very Wynn-y. And the Carousel and the Ferris Wheel, but what do I know about marketing...

It's Saturday, and I have some small errands to run, have a couple things to buy and as Saturdays go, it's cleaning day. Tonight I'm going to have dinner with my friends. I wonder if I can eat anything, I've skipped dinner for almost a month now, or rather, I've imposed a no-food-after-7pm thing, I wonder if I'll be able to get my appetite up. There's always beer though, because we are going to the new(ish?) Paulaner Brauhaus that opened in Macau. (It's so new that the official website at Macau Tower doesn't even have any updates - they still list the Singing Bean Cafe when it's been closed for a while and now there's this Paulaner thing there)

Argh I want to be lazy and laze the day away...