after The Spontaneous Purchase this morning, i went crazy at the bookstore.

i am a sucker for the following kind of books:

Faerie is never as far away as you think. Sometimes you find you have crossed all invisible line and must cope, as best as you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates or with endless paths in deep, dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice. The heroines and heroes bedevilled by such problems in these fairy tales include a conceited Regency clergyman, an 18th century Jewish doctor and Mary, Queen of Scots as well as 2 characters from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: Strange himself and the Raven King.

completely sold by this summary. will definitely start with this book :)

Wolves and grandmothers, the seven dwarfs, a goose made of gold... the folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers created an astonishingly influential imaginative world. However, this is also a world where a woman cooks her stepson and an evil queen dances to death in a pair of burning shoes. Violent, funny, disturbing and wise, these stories have intrigued both childen and adults for generations. This collection features the 279 stories in an acclaimed, modern, unexpurgated translation.

the brothers Grimm were my heroes when i was a kid ok, apart from Enid Blyton during toddler years. so was really excited to see this compilation of 279 stories! another book came free with it.

The Bloody Chamber 
Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss-in-Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.

remember Dorian Gray? Stuart Townsend played this role in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen which i so happened to watch with mr tay AGAIN a couple of weeks back on astro. i just love superheroes movies la - apart from this movie, i love love love X-Men. Jean Grey *arrrrrrrr*

so, this Dorian Gray character was not supposed to look at his own self portrait. if he so take a glance at it, he will disintegrate into ashes. i am gonna find out Why in this book. hehehehe.

and lastly, i had to do the bimbo thing. I got the latest instalment of Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic series. Rebecca Bloomwood has a baby now :)

and one more bimbo thing

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C'est Chic 2008 very colorful, very cutesy and very bimbo calendar.

:)