Before I Go To Sleep is to be likened to the film, Memento, only without Guy Pierce and on crack. Remember, crack is wack. Christine Lucas, gained amnesia after a hit and run accident and can only hold one days memories at a time, when the clock strikes midnight, her brain hits rewind to play […]
I have been in a major reader’s funk, I’ve had trouble becoming interested in one single novel or holding my attention. For me this is very rare! To the point of being concerned. Unfortunately, The Hunchback of Notre Dame had to fall in the period. Several years ago I had a friend who had applied […]
Dracula is bone-chilling! My neck prickles just thinking about it. Turtlenecks are a new staple in my wardrobe. In short, its like taking a shower after watching Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Dracula, by Bram Stoker is a horror romance of sorts as Count Dracula become obsessed with his victims which always happen to be girls and […]
Flavia is one of the reasons why I have recently fallen in love with mysteries. She is like a cat, quick on her feet, mischievous and plays by her own rules. Although Flavia is most like a cat in her cleverness, she is smart with being precocious or an 11-year-old know it all, instead she […]
Jonas lives in a world of Sameness. There is nothing to differentiate one person by the other, everything is seen in black and white with each year relinquishing a little of the individuality you possessed, following like a group of Lemmings. At your 12th year, you are given your assignment, and begin your training to […]
I can say one positive thing for French Lessons, it was a fast read, but that’s about all. The back cover proclaimed it as a “page-turner” I do agree with that but not for the same reason, which to be rid of the horrid story! I knew it was a romance but was expecting a […]
The Thirteenth Tale is part ghost story part fairy tale (Grimm Brother’s style). Vida Winter, a famed author renown for her novel The Thirteenth Tale, with the thirteenth tale being omitted. Vida, after numerous interviews has finally decided to unburden herself and write her memoirs with the help of a ghostwriter, Margaret Lea, a freelance […]
The Stranger has a slow strategic pacing almost making me put the book aside. Although this is two of my uncle’s favorite books so I plowed along. I soon realized the intentional snail pace was purposeful to completely understand our character and the stranger within. It is strange because while this was not thrilling nor […]
First Impressions Like Elizabeth Taylor’s husbands, a percentage of people can rattle off most of Henry VIII wives and like Richard Burton, Anne Boleyn is always among them. But what of her sister Mary, the King’s first choice, the other Boleyn girl? The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory writes like an autobiography. Through the […]
WARNING: DO NOT READ IN THE WOODS WHEN YOU ARE ACTUALLY IN THE WOODS! I made the foolish mistake of reading Tana French’s In The Woods while at my family’s home in upper Wisconsin, in a wooded isolated area. I don’t want to come off as some kind of chicken because the novel wasn’t actually […]