This is my story, as it is yours. This is anybody’s story and everybody’s. Anita Shreve’s Where or When reads like a long forgotten favourite song that, you know in your bones, you’ll never forget. It is the story of the first bloom of love at 14 and its transcendence into a bone-deep longing […]
Month: July 2012
Eye of the Witch
When one woman slits her wrists and commits suicide people think it’s sad. But when three women commit suicide in as many weeks, Detective Carlos of the New Castle PD thinks it’s suspicious. Especially when all three women seemed to have no probable cause for killing themselves. Retired Detective Anthony Marcella is trying to bury […]
Veronika Decides to Die
Who hasn’t heard of Paulo Coelho? His Alchemist ensured that it gave hope to generations of jaded people and the dreamers something to look to the Universe for. In fact, the ‘when you want something bad enough, the whole Universe conspires to give it to you’ (or a better sounding version of it) has become […]
Carnal Innocence
If there was one Nora Roberts I recommend you read it would have to be this one. Carnal Innocence was probably one of the best truly creepy thrillers I’ve read. It was no surprise, really, that I had to return to it. The small Southern town of Innocence in America is not so innocent anymore. […]
A bride for Tom
What do I say about this one? When I read the book blurb which told the story of Tom who was shy around women and how Jessica decides to help him iron those out so he can find a bride, truth be told, this was not what I had expected. Possibly, because the blurb said […]
