I am reading a book by Freya North at the moment, called… erm… ahh…. Well something. Sorry, the title completely eluded my memory. Just so you know, this is not my first book by her.
I have red Chloe, and Pillow Talk, and Home Truth and Fen… Love them all.
Anyway, I am only halfway through it but I can say it is rather good. Quite a different style of writing from her norm. The subject is of course love, but in a nicely different angle and totally gripping.
How to know if it is gripping ? Well if I have to read in bed, and not keep it for the on the john moments only. He he…
Anyway, nice as it was she had made one error. It is imperative that I give you a bit of a summary of the book to help you understand.
Tess took a job housesitting Joe’s house. Joe builds bridges and travels a lot so he wants somebody to housesit while he is away, to you know let the air in, feed his dog, turn on the pipe especially in winter as the pipe might get frozen if unused, blah, blah, blah.
Of course the inevitable happened and they fell in love. There is a picture of Joe that Tess found when she first moved in and had always wondered about because he looked happy. So she assumed somebody that Joe truly loves was the one behind the camera for him to smile so handsomely for. At the back of the picture, KL was scribbled.
In came Joe’s Alzheimer sufferer mom who let it slip (well she was not herself) that Joe once had a girlfriend called Kate. This revelation was made when Tess had fallen in love with Joe and therefore she was consumed with jealousy. So that who KL was. Kate L something. In a moment of madness (madness because they were still just employer and employee, skirting around does she/he like me issue), she confronted him when he got back from one his travels.
Joe smiled because he explained, KL stands for Kuala Lumpur. He had a bridge built there and apparently a Japanese guy with 3 kids was the one behind the camera.
Now here is the mistake. Mortified, Tess took a good look at the picture and wondered why she failed to notice that the colour of Sungai Klang was blue, instead of the murky milky tea colour of the River Tees, where she initially suspected the picture was taken.
Errm…. Hello sister. I have never seen the Sungai Klang to be blue. Never. It had always been milky tea to me, no matter from where I looked at the river.
Now I am asking, is there any point along the river where it is actually blue ?
Ada ke ?
I have red Chloe, and Pillow Talk, and Home Truth and Fen… Love them all.
Anyway, I am only halfway through it but I can say it is rather good. Quite a different style of writing from her norm. The subject is of course love, but in a nicely different angle and totally gripping.
How to know if it is gripping ? Well if I have to read in bed, and not keep it for the on the john moments only. He he…
Anyway, nice as it was she had made one error. It is imperative that I give you a bit of a summary of the book to help you understand.
Tess took a job housesitting Joe’s house. Joe builds bridges and travels a lot so he wants somebody to housesit while he is away, to you know let the air in, feed his dog, turn on the pipe especially in winter as the pipe might get frozen if unused, blah, blah, blah.
Of course the inevitable happened and they fell in love. There is a picture of Joe that Tess found when she first moved in and had always wondered about because he looked happy. So she assumed somebody that Joe truly loves was the one behind the camera for him to smile so handsomely for. At the back of the picture, KL was scribbled.
In came Joe’s Alzheimer sufferer mom who let it slip (well she was not herself) that Joe once had a girlfriend called Kate. This revelation was made when Tess had fallen in love with Joe and therefore she was consumed with jealousy. So that who KL was. Kate L something. In a moment of madness (madness because they were still just employer and employee, skirting around does she/he like me issue), she confronted him when he got back from one his travels.
Joe smiled because he explained, KL stands for Kuala Lumpur. He had a bridge built there and apparently a Japanese guy with 3 kids was the one behind the camera.
Now here is the mistake. Mortified, Tess took a good look at the picture and wondered why she failed to notice that the colour of Sungai Klang was blue, instead of the murky milky tea colour of the River Tees, where she initially suspected the picture was taken.
Errm…. Hello sister. I have never seen the Sungai Klang to be blue. Never. It had always been milky tea to me, no matter from where I looked at the river.
Now I am asking, is there any point along the river where it is actually blue ?
Ada ke ?
4 comments:
hahahahahah!
the author tak buat kajian la tu!
macam dalam mimpi aje nak tengok sg klang biru!
you know what, you should write back to her enclosing a real live photo of the river.
:P
You know what ? I should and I will. What a god idea.
Btw semalam had a sneaky look at the end of the book and saw pictures of her at Saltburn-Upon-Sea, where the story is located. None of her in KL though....
the only expalantion is dia pakai spek kaler biru
Or memandangkan dia belum pernah sampai sini, dia tgk brochure yg telah di airbrush bagi lawa...
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