Jude Deveraux

Have you heard of her? After spending 2 wonderful days alone in the school library (not the whole day, of course) reading 2 of her books, I feel like a new woman, hahahahahahahahah!

Reading her books are like reading a mature version of the love and fun found in the Princess Diaries combined with mysteries from Artemis Fowl.

I am serious. Though her books are filled with lust and sex (I'm not that inclined, by the way), her stories of time travel (Legend, 1996) and the unfathomables of men and women are very, very very intriguing.

I mean it! Read Legend. You can't borrow it now from the school library since this book is right beside me now.

Reading is my 3rd love. You don't have to know who/what are the 1st and 2nd. But give me 12 hours in a library (best with no air con so that it isn't that cold) with NO ONE disturbing me. That is nearly heaven, lol. Nearly.

Throw in a really comfy sofa.

The girls in her stories are pretty similar. Temperance O' Neil from Temptation, 2000, and Kade Long from Legend are very the same - they don't really trust men, even the ones they really love, and somewhere some how they are deluded into thinking they love someone else or they don't love anyone at all.

They are usually thrown into difficult situations, and it is in these situations the strong spirit of the girls are brought out, and it is heartwarming to read that they end up with good lives and loving husbands.

Do you know reading a book is like having sex?

I'm not kidding.

When you just start reading a book, it's like a budding romance. It might start off slow, and there's a lot of details to everything. Throughout the book the interest deepen, and there is a desire to want to finish the book otherwise I'll go bonkers not knowing what happens in the end.

Ok I think I don't want to go into details.

BUT my point is that I love reading books.

And that I'm in the middle of BCS class.

Actually, what happens in her books are pretty impossible. In both that I've read, the men try all sorts of ways (not evil, but they do lie) so as to ensure that the woman they love would stay at the side.

The women is usually the main person in the story.

But anyway. It doesn't look like this is real in the 21^st century. Does this happen to you? A guy likes you so much he's willing to lie to you for it?

I don't think men now are noble enough to do that. Actually I rather they don't lie.

Legend is good. Temptation is good for a lovers' story, but Legend is good for a mystery.

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I guess reading is my sanctuary, my way of running away from all the busy stuff and all the pain and loneliness.

Sometimes, the feelings protrayed by those women, I can relate to them. Cos sometimes that's how I feel.

Actually reading the books gives me a 3rd person view of my own situation.

It's not easy.