So after the so-called monk, I went back to chick lit and finished Rowan Coleman's The Accidental Mother pretty fast.
Nowadays, I'm not all that hopeful about chick lit but this book, about Sophie who ended up having to take care of her late best friend's young daughters, turned out to be quite a good departure from the usual formula. Except for the ending. But what to do, it's chick lit what. At least the plot was interesting and there were some strongly emotional and meaningful 'scenes' between Sophie and the girls. I was surprised to find such depth in chick lit.
And so now, I am reading Tim Harford's The Undercover Economist. Not my usual type of book but I was attracted by its cover and blurb, ha ha. This is a really good book. I am enjoying every page of it, which is much more than I can say for the Lim Chong Yah and another purple textbook (or was it orange?) we had for econs in the days of yore. With all due respect to Mr Lim and the purple textbook author and all other econs textbook writers, Tim Harford's book is engaging and funny, which are not the usual adjectives you would attach to econs books but being engaging and funny is certainly a way to make the subject interesting.
So if you've never smiled to yourself while reading about demand and supply, marginal cost, perfect competition and such, you may want to try this one. I'm not progressing too fast through the book, though. The subject matter is a bit hard for my currently slow-moving brain. This book may be engaging and funny but it still does require some thinking...
Nowadays, I'm not all that hopeful about chick lit but this book, about Sophie who ended up having to take care of her late best friend's young daughters, turned out to be quite a good departure from the usual formula. Except for the ending. But what to do, it's chick lit what. At least the plot was interesting and there were some strongly emotional and meaningful 'scenes' between Sophie and the girls. I was surprised to find such depth in chick lit. 
And so now, I am reading Tim Harford's The Undercover Economist. Not my usual type of book but I was attracted by its cover and blurb, ha ha. This is a really good book. I am enjoying every page of it, which is much more than I can say for the Lim Chong Yah and another purple textbook (or was it orange?) we had for econs in the days of yore. With all due respect to Mr Lim and the purple textbook author and all other econs textbook writers, Tim Harford's book is engaging and funny, which are not the usual adjectives you would attach to econs books but being engaging and funny is certainly a way to make the subject interesting. So if you've never smiled to yourself while reading about demand and supply, marginal cost, perfect competition and such, you may want to try this one. I'm not progressing too fast through the book, though. The subject matter is a bit hard for my currently slow-moving brain. This book may be engaging and funny but it still does require some thinking...
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