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YOURS UNTIL DAWN



From Publishers Weekly
This newest Regency-era romance from veteran author Medeiros (One Night of Scandal, etc.) starts out as a crisp, bright tale of a woman whose no-nonsense attentions revitalize a disabled lord, but a jarring plot twist sends the book into a black hole that might leave readers feeling disoriented and cheated. Earl and naval hero Gabriel Fairchild lost his sight, fallen-angel good looks and fianc閑 after the battle of Trafalgar, only to acquire tart-tongued nurse Samantha Wickersham, a young woman with a shadowy past who refuses to let Gabriel sink into self-pity. As she teaches him how to navigate his mansion and regain his independence, he guides her along a journey of shared desire. But while Samantha gives Gabriel her heart, she keeps her secrets, vanishing when it becomes clear that Gabriel can finally survive without her assistance. Here the story staggers, revealing vital information hardly hinted at before. Then Samantha, who's cast as a straight shooter in the first half, inexplicably begins acting out of character, sending the final portion of the book into a spin that grows worse with every page. Though the first portion of the novel is as finely written as Medeiros's best novels, the ending proves to be a rough landing.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Historical Romance Club, August 2004
YOURS UNTIL DAWN is absolutely marvelous! Pure magic! And never was there a more perfect ending!

A courtesy of Amazon.com

MY COMMENT

My imaginations was running wild when the author described the floor beneath their feet is visibly shuddered, the sounds of crash, the muffled roar stuff. I thought it is the children, and the storyline will be the heroin will end up married to the father. It tooks me a while to figure out that it is a man (Earl of Sheffield) that require the service and he is blind. This is another fact that also took me a while to sort it out. At first I was wondering why he is like that. Always accindentaly crush with a table, door, etc. The plot is a typical ones, a wounded man fall in love with his nurse, facing the obstacles, end up with a happy ending. But the way the author twist some important fact e.g. the nurse is actually his correspondence lover make this book  worth to read.

[ Last edited by  estrellas at 9-9-2006 03:10 PM ]

mrs_livingstone

Finished reading "WHEN I STOPPED BEING BARBIE AND BECAME MRS POTATO HEAD" by Mary Pierce



ok lah buku ni..buku nasiat..how to boost up our confidence dlm menghadapi hari2 tua khususnya perempuan.
Patut baca ni...plus, ade byk things to ponder at!

limau_nipis

Originally posted by zorroe at 6/9/06 07:49 PM


cik limau, leh bagi nama buku and publisher tak? zorroe nak dptkan satu copy la.. thankx ye.

zorroe, minta maaf la, still hutang nama penulis n publisher kiamat semakin hampir tu.. nanti free, me type ok

updated-
judul buku : Kiamat Semakin Hampir
Disusun oleh: Nazri bin Zakaria
Disemak oleh: Ustaz Hassan bin Alias, Pengetua Ma'ahad Tahfiz At Tohiriah
Penerbit: enoble marketing
E-mel: [email protected]

[ Last edited by  limau_nipis at 13-9-2006 08:03 AM ]

zorroe

waaaah.. thankx bebanyak, cik limau. nak gi carik nih.. :clap:

limau_nipis

you are welcome dear

wa'ah

baru je finish reading 'Every Breath You Take' by Judith McNaught.

waaaaaaaaaaaaaa... besssssstttt

story about Kate Donovan and Mitchel Wyatt.... macam biasalah love story yg ada twist.. salah paham... meet only 2 days dah fall madly in love...
appearence of Matt n Meredith, Zack Benedict n Julie ....

err..can somebody tell me what is the title for story regarding Matt Farrell and Meredith? i nak gi korek buku n baca balik

dexa

err..can somebody tell me what is the title for story regarding Matt Farrell and Meredith? i nak gi korek buku n baca balik  

title  - PARADISE -- if i am not mistaken ---

thanks

[ Last edited by  dexa at 17-9-2006 12:51 AM ]

dexa

almost finished   shadows and lace -
start reading this afternoon ---
recommended by limau nipis ---

- great story --

dex

hamizao

Originally posted by limau_nipis at 6-9-2006 08:33 AM
Just finished reading Kiamat Semakin Hampir

bukan buku fiction yar, buku agama.. tapi banyak hadis sahih yang disekalikan dengan peristiwa kiamat yang bakal berlaku, jadi aku confident nak baca. ...

Limau_manis, ada dapat klu apakah dan dimana letaknya tembuk Zulkarnain itu dan siapa  sebenarnaya Yakjuj Makjuj itu?

[ Last edited by  hamizao at 17-9-2006 05:05 PM ]

limau_nipis

Originally posted by hamizao at 17/9/06 04:56 PM


Limau_manis, ada dapat klu apakah dan dimana letaknya tembuk Zulkarnain itu dan siapa  sebenarnaya Yakjuj Makjuj itu?

Yakjuj Makjuj melalui riwayat, adalah keturunan dari Adam & Hawa iaitu dari keturunan Yafitz, ayah Tark dan Yafits adalah anak nabi Nuh a.s.

Rasulullah saw bersabda, sanad dari Imam Ahmad (hadis sahih):
"Anak Nabi Nuh ada tiga, iaitu Sam Abul Arab, Ham abu Sudan dan Yafits Abu Tark."


Diriwayatkan semasa penjelajahan Zulkarnain, ke arah Timur, iaitu daerah yang terletak di antara 2 pergunungan iaitu antara gunung Armenia dan gunung Azirbaijan (suatu daerah selatan Rusia dan Barat Tiongkok), beliau telah bertemu suatu kaum yang bahasanya sukar difahami dimana kamu tersebut telah ditindas serta dianiaya oleh satu kaum yang lain, iatu kaum Yakjud dan Makjud.

Kaum tersebut meminta pertolongan Zulkarnain untuk membina tembok, dan raja tersebut bersetuju. Refer ayat surah Al-Kahfi:95-96. Zulkarnain sangat berpengetahuan dalam besi dan tembaga, dimana campuran itu akan dibina dinding yang kukuh dan sukar ditembus.

periwinkle..

Habis baca buku ni last week. Cerita yang menarik, kadang - kadang agak boring dan meleret, tapi  towards the end semakin menarik. Kalau sesiapa yang suka cerita yang ada conclusion akan rasa frustrated sebab memang tak ada conclusion, whether memang betul grace ada double personality or dia memang cunningly deceiving people, is left to the reader to decide..   so rasanya sesuai juga buku ni kalau nak buat book discussion.. for me, the book is ok, but the blind assassin is better, so much better..

From Publishers Weekly
Intrigued by contemporary reports of a sensational murder trial in 1843 Canada, Atwood has drawn a compelling portrait of what might have been. Her protagonist, the real life Grace Marks, is an enigma. Convicted at age 16 of the murder of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper and lover, Nancy Montgomery, Grace escaped the gallows when her sentence was commuted to life in prison, but she also spent some years in an insane asylum after an emotional breakdown. Because she gave three different accounts of the killings, and because she was accused of being the sole perpetrator by the man who was hanged for the crime, Grace's life and mind are fertile territory for Atwood. Adapting her style to the period she describes, she has written a typical Victorian novel, leisurely in exposition, copiously detailed and crowded with subtly drawn characters who speak the embroidered, pietistic language of the time. She has created a probing psychological portrait of a working-class woman victimized by society because of her poverty, and victimized again by the judicial and prison systems. The narrative gains texture and tension from the dynamic between Grace and an interlocutor, earnest young bachelor Dr. Simon Jordan, who is investigating the causes of lunacy with plans to establish his own, more enlightened institution. Jordan is hoping to awaken Grace's suppressed memories of the day of the murder, but Grace, though uneducated, is far wilier than Jordan, whom she tells only what she wishes to confess. He, on the other hand, is handicapped by his compassion, which makes him the victim of the wiles of other women, too?his passionate, desperate landlady, and the virginal but predatory daughter of the prison governor. These encounters give Atwood the chance to describe the war between the sexes with her usual wit. Although the narrative holds several big surprises, the central question?Was Grace dupe and victim or seductress and instigator of the bloody crime??is left tantalizingly ambiguous. Major ad/promo; author tour.

limau_nipis

I could never care more or less about biography or autobiography. It always read from one person's point of view. I have not realised this book is a biography till the end. I was crying when I read it, the book is really a personal biography of two people, instead of one.

Mitch Albom was a great writer, and Tuesdays With Morrie is about life's greatest lesson. He had a mentor, once. His mentor was Morrie Schwartz, his professor back when he was in the college. Morrie was dying, and after 16 years, Mitch met his professor on his death bed.

They started a lesson every Tuesday, it's about the meaning of life. The unique way it was presented was the fact the writer knew the person so well, that their life experience was entwined with each other. It teaches everything a person should know; about world, regrets, emotions, death, fear of aging, marriage and forgiveness. This was what Morrie called Mitch's final thesis with him.

Mitch was the person we all know so well, which reflects ourselves, of aiming to work harder, to have more money, a bigger house, a new car - which this cravings are all materialistic in its' nature. Morrie was a great teacher who embraced life in his full potential. He could never care more about these things, but he cared about his relationships with people and God.

At the end, it was what Morrie cared that had more life value than what we, as a human, wants in our life.

I cried, I cheered, I feel triumphed over their achievements in life.

I was crying when Morrie died, and I was crying when Morrie told about his childhood and the death of his parents. On Mitch, I cried when he wrote about his cancer-stricken brother, but cheered when he tried to amend the bridge between him and his brother.

This is an excellent book, and true to its promise, it is about life's greatest lesson.

FaRiShAsYaHaNaZ

baru lepas baca buku ni .... i'm in no mood for love ... usual rom com frm rachel gibson ... kisahnya psl sorg romance writer (clare) baru putus cinta ... cos her tunang is gay ... so dia terjumpa balik dgn her childhood friend ... sebastian yg kebetulan his dad kerja dgn mak clare ... so sebastian ni lps ketiadaan ibu cuba nak baiki hubungan dgn dad dia after not seeing for 14 years ... clare pulak ada prob dgn mak dia cos mak dia x suka dia jadik romance writer ... cos she write hot steamy romance ... so mak dia akn ckp dia write women's fiction ..

so mula kisah psl clare n sebastian ... both trying to adapt new things in their lives ... kemudian they fall in love ... ok la cite ni ... i like it ... but not as witty as SEP


right now tgh baca



peter barry's beginning theory ... dunno la if u all yg teaching english guna/study buku ni .... i baru come across ... quite interesting ... he gave overview of history of english teaching in UK (degree level) ... interesting jugak dia kasik formula SQ3R for enhancing reading skills

Zeeqa

Tgh baca Kau kekasihku Anis Ayuni...

cheduk

Assalamualaikum baru je habis baca buku Padamu Kusandarkan Cinta oleh Halina Kamarudin dn Hanya Kau Yang Satu oleh Iffa Irdina. Boleh tahan gak cerita kedua-dua novelis ni. At least bagi I yg ulat buku ni kalau x dak novel tuk di baca x leh tidoq!

cheduk

Dulu selalu gak baca karya author ni tp dah lama tak lepak kat cm jadi x tau ape karya terbaru beliau. Kalau ikut karya yg lama esp. historical romancenya memang bes gile ahaks.

KRUfan

Originally posted by Zeeqa at 6-10-2006 01:54 PM
Tgh baca Kau kekasihku Anis Ayuni...

Wah..Zeeqa..kite serupe...saya pon tgh bace buku ni sekrg....

mekna

hi wa'ah....kisah Matt and Meredith ni dalam buku Paradise...this is one her Best novel I think...

Buku ni mengisahkan pasal Meredith, anak seorang jutawan yg telah ditinggalkan isteri...oleh kerana tak mau anak gadisnya ni mengikut perangai ibunya...ayah Meredith telah mengongkong kehidupan Meredith. Ini pada mulanya tidak dihiraukan sangat oleh Meredith pasal by nature die ni seorang yg baik...walaupun dibesarkan dgn segala kemewahan, Meredith tidak memilih kawan...kawan baik die Lisa comes from a large family...

errmm...mekna tak pandai nak sambung lagi tapi ni..i can type out the summary for you...

Meredith Bancroft, a serenely beautiful blonde, and Matthew Farrell, an intense, magnetic tycoon, are both haunted by their once-in-a-lifetime love - betrayed in a conflict of heartache and pain. When the Bancroft family empire is threathened by hostile takeover attempt, Meredith is forced to turn to Matt. .....

p/s wa'ah..klo dah baca PAradise...kena baca Perfect...another great novel by Judith Mc Naught..Matt & Meredith appears as cameo...

limau_nipis

just finished reading: ainon zaini -indahnya cinta

komen aku: buku ni ok, untuk bacaan santai.. sebab grammarnya banyak tunggang terbalik (kang kena saman ngan DBP, kan susah )

anyway, ceritanya thru view syakirah sahaja, maybe lebih interesting kalau cerita tu also from view syakirin, untuk lebih kita kenal isi hati syakirin
nak tahu gak kenapa syakirin sanggup nikah ngan syakirah
kenapa tak elaborate perhubungan syakirah dengan mak bapanya yang sebenar
kenapa tak elaborate kisah kirman dengan zahida pulak
kenapa tak elaborate kisah diana yang terima pinangan orang

tapi overall, bagi aku buku ni enjoyable, cuma geram sikit la ngan syakirah tu, cam takde pendirian.. kejap suka, lepas tu tak suka, lepas tu suka..

maybe tak boleh lawan donia tulisan lamia aimal lagi..

KRUfan

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