Monday, November 19, 2018
Debut novel
This is a sad story about Maud, an elderly woman who is suffering from progressive dementia. She is certain that her friend Elizabeth is missing and must find her and help her.
But is Maud confusing her reality with her past, is Elizabeth just missing because she doesn't visit Maud today or is a memory trying to break through her dementia??
For a debut novel, Emma Healey does a very good job of giving insight to dementia and making a bit of a mystery.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
My guilty pleasure read.
I chose this has my guilty pleasure read off of my TBR because I really liked this author's book ,"The Life She was Given". I enjoyed this book as well but it was a harder read for me , maybe because of the subject matter.
I would put this in the YA genre because one of the main characters is 17 year old Izzy who is a foster child. Izzy is our present day voice who lives with her foster parents because her mother is in prison for killing Izzy's father. Izzy has to deal with some high school bullying , questioning why her mother would kill her father, and then having to help her foster mother clear out an old insane asylum for the Historical Society. Here is where we meet the second voice of the book, Clara.
Clara is from the early 1930's when it was common practice for women to end up in asylums just for disobeying their or talking back or being a troublesome burden to you husband.
So we go between the two ladies, Izzy trying to find out about Clara through her belongings and Clara living in the asylum trying to convince people that she is not insane. This was the hard part for me because of the descriptions of the abuse that was done to the patients.
I have already put two more of Ellen M Wiseman's books on my TBR.
Sunday, November 11, 2018
I Let You Go - Clare Mackintosh
New Author
I chose Clare Mackintosh as my new author because I had heard many good things about her, not because of her last name. Lol. Besides, she spells it wrong, just kidding!!!!
This was an easy read with a twist that I did not see coming and what a twist it was!!
The story starts with a 5 year little boy being killed by a hit and run and Jenna Gray's life is forever changed. The story is told by the police working the case and Jenna who ran away from the boy's death.
The first part of the book is a little slow but the second half takes off. I will definitely look for more books by this author.
Saturday, November 10, 2018
Series
Second in the Harry Hole series, on my way to reading the much acclaimed "The Snowman"!!
A Norwegian ambassador is found in a sleazy motel in Bangkok with a knife in his back. This murder needs to be solved quickly and quietly, so Harry Hole is sent from Norway to Thailand . Harry, I am learning, doesn't to anything quietly.
Harry uncovers many reasons and many suspects for this murder but also finds a lot of opposition from the higher ups.
A good crime mystery but too many foreign names and places for me. I kept getting lost. I am liking getting to know Harry Hole and look forward to our next adventure together in "The Redbreast".
Thursday, November 8, 2018
"M" - Author
Cassandra's grandmother,Nell, passes away and leaves Cassandra the deed to a cottage in England. That starts Cassandra on a journey to learn more about this mysterious cottage that her grandmother never talked about and the discovery of many family secrets.
This is told in 3 voices, Nell, Cassandra and Eliza, as it travels through many time periods. Kate Morton does this seamlessly.
Many twist and turns and surprises will keep you turning the pages, it did for me.
A quote I like from this book......"You make a life out of what you have, not what your are missing"
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