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tvordljCatching up on 2012 books. Not read very many this month because of my two week vacation with Graham. The first three below were finished before he came and the last two after he left.
41 - Dead and Gone - Charlaine Harris
Another of the Sookie Stackhouse True Blood books. Much of the same muchness. You know what you're getting by the time you get to book 9. Easy read, a nice change if i've been reading a lot of heaviness or more serious plots etc.
42. Now you See Her - Joy Fielding
First time i've read her, I think. About a mother who's daughter committed suicide but the body was never found so the mother never has accepted that the daughter is dead. She is post-divorce and on a bus tour in Ireland and thinks she's seen her daughter. It's not the first time this has happened since the disappearance. She becomes obsessed with finding out if the woman is her daughter or not. More of a review here.
43. A Grown up Kind of Pretty - Joshilyn Jackson
Ginny, or "Big" had a daughter, Liza at age 15. Liza had a baby, Mosey, also at age 15. Now Mosey is 15 and Ginny is afraid the mistakes of the mother and grandmother could happen to her as well. Liza has had a stroke and is recovering. The bones of an infant are discovered buried in the back yard and since the bones are about the same age as Mosey, the quest begins to find out who the baby was, is Mosey who she thinks she is? If not, what happened? The story is told from each of the three women's points of view alternately. I really liked this book, liked all three characters and i liked how it was all resolved. More of a review here.
44. One Day - David Nicholls
I was curious to read the book because i saw that the movie was going to be on the Movie Channel and i had the ebook. It wasn't bad, about two people that become friends. The book takes a look at their lives on the same day over 20 years, what's happening in their lives, who they are. They drift through their 20s, Dexter is aimless and self destructive, Emma is serious and trying to find what she wants to do with her life, as they get into their 30s there's a bit more direction and it's clear that they'll get together as a couple at some point. There's tragedy and hope at the end. It probably drags on too much after the tragedy and neither character is all that likeable or interesting but it's not a bad read. The movie was duller. The detail in the book fills it in much better.
45. The Flight of Gemma Hardy - Margot Livesey
About a young girl in Scotland, an orphan, who is resented by her cold aunt and cousins after her beloved uncle dies. She's sent off to boarding school where she's treated like a servant. She is not a weak or simpering child, though, and stands up for herself. She "takes flight" from various situations or people trying to find out who she is and where she's come from. It was a pretty good book though the inevitable romantic sub plot wouldn't have been missed had it not been there. More of a review here.
41 - Dead and Gone - Charlaine Harris
Another of the Sookie Stackhouse True Blood books. Much of the same muchness. You know what you're getting by the time you get to book 9. Easy read, a nice change if i've been reading a lot of heaviness or more serious plots etc.
42. Now you See Her - Joy Fielding
First time i've read her, I think. About a mother who's daughter committed suicide but the body was never found so the mother never has accepted that the daughter is dead. She is post-divorce and on a bus tour in Ireland and thinks she's seen her daughter. It's not the first time this has happened since the disappearance. She becomes obsessed with finding out if the woman is her daughter or not. More of a review here.
43. A Grown up Kind of Pretty - Joshilyn Jackson
Ginny, or "Big" had a daughter, Liza at age 15. Liza had a baby, Mosey, also at age 15. Now Mosey is 15 and Ginny is afraid the mistakes of the mother and grandmother could happen to her as well. Liza has had a stroke and is recovering. The bones of an infant are discovered buried in the back yard and since the bones are about the same age as Mosey, the quest begins to find out who the baby was, is Mosey who she thinks she is? If not, what happened? The story is told from each of the three women's points of view alternately. I really liked this book, liked all three characters and i liked how it was all resolved. More of a review here.
44. One Day - David Nicholls
I was curious to read the book because i saw that the movie was going to be on the Movie Channel and i had the ebook. It wasn't bad, about two people that become friends. The book takes a look at their lives on the same day over 20 years, what's happening in their lives, who they are. They drift through their 20s, Dexter is aimless and self destructive, Emma is serious and trying to find what she wants to do with her life, as they get into their 30s there's a bit more direction and it's clear that they'll get together as a couple at some point. There's tragedy and hope at the end. It probably drags on too much after the tragedy and neither character is all that likeable or interesting but it's not a bad read. The movie was duller. The detail in the book fills it in much better.
45. The Flight of Gemma Hardy - Margot Livesey
About a young girl in Scotland, an orphan, who is resented by her cold aunt and cousins after her beloved uncle dies. She's sent off to boarding school where she's treated like a servant. She is not a weak or simpering child, though, and stands up for herself. She "takes flight" from various situations or people trying to find out who she is and where she's come from. It was a pretty good book though the inevitable romantic sub plot wouldn't have been missed had it not been there. More of a review here.
