Mailbox Monday is where other bloggers write about the books they received the previous week. The Printed Page is the host of the Mailbox Monday meme. Visit her blog to see what books made it her way and get a chance to get one of her books once she’s done reading it. You can also see who all is participating this week and read about all kinds of new books.
How To Never Look Fat Again by Charla Krupp (Non-Fiction, Fashion) - Are your clothes making you look fat? How else do you explain how some days you look your thinnest and other days you don’t -when you weigh exactly the same? What is packing on the pounds? Charla Krupp, will answer these questions and many more in this amazing new style guide. She’ll share smart, easy ways to hide arm flaps, big busts, muffin tops, back fat, Buddha belly, booty, wide hips, thunder thighs, heavy calves and that’s only half the chapters. She’ll look at special problems like how not to look fat in work-out gear, evening wear and even in a swimsuit! Charla discusses everything about women’s clothes from shape and fit to fabric and colour. Each chapter has a checklist to determine if the body part in question is a problem; how to get a ‘no-fat’ look; a list of fabrics, colour and styles that will make you look fat; and the absolutely best shades, shapes and material that will slim you down; a list of products and fashions you shouldn’t waste a penny on and a list of 10 things to have you looking thinner by tonight! Plus there’s a list of brilliant buys. Every woman you know puts something on and asks, ‘Does this make me look fat?’ This is the book for them.
Random by Craig Robertson (Fiction Thriller) – Glasgow is being terrorised by a serial killer the media have nicknamed The Cutter. The murders have left the police baffled. There seems to be neither rhyme nor reason behind the killings; no kind of pattern or motive; an entirely different method of murder each time, and nothing that connects the victims except for the fact that the little fingers of their right hands have been severed. If DS Rachel Narey could only work out the key to the seemingly random murders, how and why the killer selects his victims, she would be well on her way to catching him. But as the police, the press and a threatening figure from Glasgow’s underworld begin to close in on The Cutter, his carefully-laid plans threaten to unravel – with horrifying consequences.
