December 30, 2005 – 9:16 am
“Vicky McCarthy is about to discover who her friends – and her family – really is.”
Something Borrowed is Tina O’Reilly’s fourth novel. It’s a well-written and easy to read tale of love’s lost and found. I was looking for a change of author when I found this book. The front cover of the book was really cute and it really caught my attention. I got so immersed in it that I wasn’t able to stop reading the book until it was completed. I recommended this book to my friends and almost everyone liked it.
More about the book – Vicky McCarthy doesn’t know who she is. Adopted as a baby, a fact revealed to her when she was twelve, she just never really got adjusted to it. Finally her curiosity got the better of her and she went in search of her birth mother.
Meanwhile at work, the boss’s son, Ed, had just started working for her. Vicky is convinced that he is being groomed to replace her as manager of Dublin toyshop Toys Galore. Read More »
December 29, 2005 – 7:17 am
This book is set up in the Irish country town of Kinvarra, Rose and Hugh are preparing to celebrate thei 40th wedding anniversary. We get know more about their family, their children, Stella, single mother, Tara newly married and the youngest of the three Holly. The plot moves smoothly. Its an interesting read. I enoyed reading the book inspite of being a very long novel.
Book Description
From international bestselling author Cathy Kelly, a heartwarming story of three sisters who are about to discover that — even within a close-knit Irish family — looks can be deceiving.
Look at them go!
In the Irish Country town of Kinvarra, the Miller girls are generally perceived to have it all. Read More »
December 28, 2005 – 9:07 am
After a couple of years (or more) “treading water” with experimentations, John Grisham is back with “The Summons”! It’s probably not his best work as our favorites are “The Firm” and “The Testament” but “The Summons” is once again a real (!) Grisham. Excellent character studies and it seems Grisham is good at that. The pacing is a little slow and the plot isn’t sophisticated, but it’s an enjoyable book to read and refreshing to see Grisham in action again. For a book that has all the elements of international corporate intrigue, excellent characters, exotic locales and fast pacing.
Synopsis
“Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He’s forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise Read More »
December 27, 2005 – 9:14 am
I have read this book twice quite a few years ago and I plan to read it at least one more time. At the time the messages of the book were really lost to me. Lewis, in his description of this utopian wonderland and all the creative ways he answers some of lifes great mysteries, is quite compelling. This book has such great depth that one reading, fascinating as it is, is not enough. I think I would read it now with a different and deeper understanding.
Book Description
The second book in C. S. Lewis’s acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, the great Read More »
December 26, 2005 – 6:19 pm
“I am always drawn back to places where I lived, the houses and their neighbourhoods” is the perfect first sentence to a novella that is perfectly written. It is hard to describe prose that is so elegant and describes characters and situations with spareness, yet with such depth and feeling. Just as you experience New York in the early sixties in the film, you experience New York in the 1940s in Capote’s story. Holly Golightly runs from herself — and keeps running — but the reader is not left with any sense of loss, only warmth. “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is a true work of art. Displace one word and its genius would diminish. It is highly recommended.
Annotation
This volume includes three of Capote’s best-known stories, “House of Flowers, ” “A Read More »