Jan
30
Book Review | Love in the Present Tense - Catherine Ryan Hyde
Filed Under 3 stars, 50 book challenge | 1 Comment
Love in the Present Tense - Buy this book
Rating
3 stars - Enjoyable read - but slightly forgettable
Description
For five years Pearl has managed to keep the past from catching up to her and her bright, frail five-year-old son. Life has given her every reason to mistrust people, but circumstances force her to trust her neighbor Mitch [...]
Jan
27
The Book Thief - Buy this book
Rating
5 stars - outstanding - a truly beautiful tale
Description
1939 - Nazi Germany - The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals [...]
Jan
21
On Chesil Beach - Buy this book
Rating
2 stars - not worth the hype!
Description
From these new heights they could see clearly, but they could not describe to each other certain contradictory feelings: they separately worried about the moment, sometime soon after dinner, when their new maturity would be tested, when they would lie down together on [...]
Jan
20
Book Review | The Shakespeare Secret - J L Carrell
Filed Under 4 stars, 50 book challenge | 1 Comment
The Shakespeare Secret - buy a copy
Rating
4 stars - enjoyed it immensely but can’t see it going on the re-read pile
Description
A modern serial killer - hunting an ancient secret. A woman is left to die as the rebuilt Globe theatre burns. Another woman is drowned like Ophelia, skirts swirling in the water. A professor has [...]
Jan
18
Book Review | Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Filed Under 5 stars, 50 book challenge, Twilight Saga | 9 Comments
Meyer does not disappoint in the final part of the Cullen trilogy - the love triangle continues as Bella fights to combine her obsessive love for Edward with her friendship with her soul-mate Jacob
Jan
10
Book Review | New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Filed Under 5 stars, 50 book challenge, Twilight Saga | 26 Comments
Vampires, werewolves and romance - what more could you ask for in a novel? Meyer weaves a fabulous tale in this second book in the series


