Jun
01
2011

May books 2011

Cathedral by Nelson Demille was a really tough book to get into. By about page 100 I decided I just couldn’t be bothered to put it in the charity shop pile!

The Mill House by Susan Lewis was a nice read. Julia Thayne has a loving husband and she has some fab children. However, she lives with a dark history, her father disappeared when she was young and she had no contact with him. When he dies she starts her quest to find out what happened to him, and in the process her relationship with her husband starts to deteriorate and she finds out he has been having an affair with her friend. A good read with a nice story. Perfect bus reading material!

Can You Keep a Secret by Sophie Kinsella is a perfect vacuous read! Emma is in a boring job, aspiring to greater things when she takes a business trip to Scotland. On the flight back the plane hits turbulence and she ends up spilling all her deepest, darkest secrets to a complete stranger. Well, he was a complete stranger until she realised he was the founder of the company she works for. A funny and sweet book. I like Kinsella’s books, especially the Shopaholic series which are well worth a read.

Some Kind of Hero by Donna Hay is a “heart-warming” book about a single mother with a teenage son. It’s a good read with a nice story and she tackles some challenging issues such as love, families and dealing with the hand life has dealt you.

A Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult is a much tougher read, not because of the writing style but because of the subject matter. Nina is a high-flying prosecution lawyer. Used to holding herself together her world falls apart when her 5-year-old son starts exhibiting signs of having been sexually abused. She knows he is unlikely to be able to go through a court hearing so she shoots the suspected perpetrator. A tough read, but a good story.

Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia by Chris Stewart is a cracking and a funny read. Chris Stewart is the ex-drummer from of Genesis but retired from music and started a career as a sheep shearer. He and his wife drive a ramshacke farmhouse in a remote part of Spain. The book is about them developing their relationships with theur very Spanish neighbours and learning to tame the property they bought. Lovely read.

Blue Dahlia by Nora Roberts is a really typical novel by this author. A young widower ends up moving back to her hometown to live near her father and step-mother. There she finds a new job and inevitably a new bloke. A nice read and I still like the way this author writes.

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby is a really shit novel and I don’t know why it has such good reviews on Amazon! It is about a bloke who gets dumped by his girlfriend and then spends the majority of this book with regaling us with all the reasons she made the right decision in the first place. A really unlikeable central character which made the book dull, boring and unimaginative. Not worth buying.

Roadside Crosses by Jeffrey Deaver features the new, kinesics expert detective Kathryn Dance. A young man is accused of committing some horrific murders, however there is a large cross-ver between the fantasy synthetic world of role-playing games and real life. This is a great book with a fast-paced storyline and a good example of the genre.

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