books

I found this at Book Castle. I’ve not read it yet, and I suspect I won’t for a while. But I simply have to show you what I found inside:

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Cathy’s Book
Sean Stewart, Jordan Weisman, Cathy Briggs (Illustrator)
Published by Running Press
Hard cover, 143 pages

Cathy’s Book is described as an ARG (Alternate Reality Game) book. This means that the story is fiction, but the websites mentioned are real and behave as though they are part of the story. The phone numbers work if you care to call (I presume Skype will work too). But as a standalone, the book works just fine.

The book is essentially the diary of 17-year old budding artist Cathy Vickers - full of sketches, doodles, photographs, a few name cards, and other little treasures that girls would keep. But in this case, her items and diary focuses on her ex-boyfriend Victor Chan, who abruptly dumped her the night before the story begins. 

Cathy doesn’t know why but is determined to find out. She does the obsessive ex thing - stalk him, and break into his house and steal things that she consider clues. Most of these items are included in the book, not as images printed directly on the page, but real items. Many of these clues suggests that Victor was not completely honest about who he is. 

The note on the back of the book (masquerading as a synopsis) tells us that Cathy had already gone missing and left the diary in the care of her best friend Emma. What happened to her? No one knows yet, but you can always pop online and share your theories with other fans.

The sequel, Cathy’s Key, was released earlier this year.

- originally published in Good English, The Borneo Post

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Random happy news: Raining money at KL Sentral

And now, back to my original post.

Michael Crichton died. :(

I read quite a lot of Crichton’s books after graduating to adult novels. The thing that kept me reading at the time and causes me to occasionally pick up something new of his is that I enjoy the scientific “what if” scenarios he writes about.

Jurassic Park was also an awesome movie* for its time.

On to happier news, Robert was featured in the Malay Mail’s Blogspot!

* but as always, the book is better

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