Arlene Radasky's 'THE FOX'

'The Fox' is a very beautiful and romantic story. It is a story about love and sacrifice.

There are two intertwined settings in the story. The first setting is Jahna and Lovern, a couple, in the ancient age. Their lives and society were threatened to be invaded. As they were preparing themselves for the unexpected, Jahna used her druid ability to tell her story. She sent her visions to someone she had never met before, someone who was always eager for her story.

The second setting is Aine, an archaeologist, who was fighting to keep her digging site. She could not tell anyone that her project was based on her 'dreams' of the ancient people. She led a team of knowledgeable and enthusiastic people, but there was always a 'ghost' that showed her the exact locations of the important artifacts.

Jahna knew that her life was extraordinary, and she did her best in showing the images of the important events of her life. While Aine was racing against the time in following Jahna's clues to find the artifacts, she needed to keep her digging project. The more Aine learned about Jahna, the further she was pulled into mystery of her site. When history was finally revealed, not only Aine found the truth about the site of her dream. She also learned so much about love and life from Jahna's story.

More than a love story between two people, 'The Fox' reminds us that there are situations where we have to be prepared for things that are more important than our love lives. The book also teaches us that failure is not always a bad thing; it often serves as a passage towards a bigger success in the future. However, it can only happen when we have done the best we can as long as we live.

This e-book can be downloaded from free-ebooks.

Ruth Rendell's 'Road Rage'

Back in Australia, I loved watching the series 'Ruth Rendell's Mysteries.' It was an UK program, and I liked it because it was different from other law enforcement shows on TV, which were mostly US based.

One day when I was in the book shop, I saw this book, and I thought it would be a good souvenir to take home. However, one thing led to another, this book ended up safely kept for years without being read, until last month.

'Road Rage' tells the story about the uprising in Kingsmarkham City due to the plan of a new road being built cutting across the city forest. Chief Inspector Wexford who was closely watching the protesters ended up chasing the leaders of the protester groups after the kidnapping of seven people who were taken hostages by a group that was not among the ones camping around the planned route of the new road.

Seven people were kidnapped and one of them was the chief inspector's wife. When she was strangely released near her home in the middle of the night, people were having doubts about the chief and the police force. In the meantime, the police had to keep the investigation confidential until the time limit when public had to be informed about the case.

The chief's wife tried to retell everything she experienced during the time she was held hostage to help speed up the police work. Unexpectedly, one of the other hostages turned up dead and the group went silent. Was it, a murder or an accident? Was the group really a protest group or was there something else behind the kidnapping? Why was it hard for the police to find this group? Who were involved?

This book is a good read. I couldn't guess the ending until I finished the book. I suggest this book to anyone who enjoys law enforcement stories.

A.D.A.M. by Ramlee Awang Murshid

I am an Indonesian and this book is written by a Malaysian author.

Indonesia and Malaysia are two neighbouring countries whose traditional cultures have many similarities, but during the journey of the world, a lot of different things that happened in the lives of the two countries that made them grow differently.

I love this book because by reading it, I came to an understanding that cultures are often forgotten in our lives that have become so uniformly 'modern'. However, the values taught by our parents, teachers and society can be preserved by our own will and effort.

This book is also a good reminder that being highly-skilled alone is often enough to survive, but not to surface as a solid personality. We need to prepare ourselves to be a person who is skillful, ethical and smart, to maintain our credibility and independence as a human being.

A great read for positive motivation!