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Reading catch up time
Sep. 11th, 2010 07:54 pm2010 books
25. Hold Tight - Harlen Coben
Reading this book felt more like watching a tv drama about a group of families who all live more or less in the same area, sort of Desperate Housewives but without the sex. I think it's because there was a lot of dialogue rather than long descriptive paragraphs. You got told what was going on with not meandering. There's a family with a son that's been getting in with the wrong lot. Another family lost their son to suicide. A third family has a son that desperately needs a kidney transplant. There's a child who's teacher made an unthinking remark about her appearance on a bad day and regrets it but the child has been teased and bullied non stop. There's also a man that's been abducting and violently beating women to death. Two of them that we are witness to. All of these stores are interconnected in some way. It wasn't a bad read. It was certainly a quick one.
26. Disordered Minds - Minette Walters
In 1970, a teenage girl was gang raped by three other teens, witnessed by her best friend and the friend's little brother. Nobody tells what happened. A few weeks later, the girls get into a fight at school. The girl that was raped gets suspended and shortly thereafter goes missing. A few days after that, an elderly woman gets killed by her grandson. Or so it seems. He is a bit slow and is scared and confesses but recants. Too late, the prosecution twists things so that they can get a conviction and he goes to jail. A few years later he kills himself. It wouldn't seem the two things are related but as the book goes on, we find that they are. In 2003, a man has written a book about wrongful convictions and the case was one he mentions. He is intrigued and is contacted by someone who also thought the conviction was wrong. They get off on the wrong foot but end up working together to unravel all the clues to prove that the grandson didn't in fact kill his grandmother and they eventually figure out what happened to the missing girl. Not bad, i kind of had a lot of it figured out but the writing was good and it was a mix of styles. You'd get emails, reports, newspaper articles, excerpts from a book, letters, as well as the regular prose and dialogue. It's not based on a true story, but you could see how something like this could happen back then.
Quiet day, been doing a bit of housework. It was actually chilly outside, there was a cold breeze coming in. Haven't decided for sure if i'm going to go to the air show tomorrow or not. Probably be a last minute thing if i do go. Or i could just be lazy and relax. My feet would probably thank me for it.
New trainer is good. A bit tougher than the last one but i like her.
and.....21 sleeps!!!
25. Hold Tight - Harlen Coben
Reading this book felt more like watching a tv drama about a group of families who all live more or less in the same area, sort of Desperate Housewives but without the sex. I think it's because there was a lot of dialogue rather than long descriptive paragraphs. You got told what was going on with not meandering. There's a family with a son that's been getting in with the wrong lot. Another family lost their son to suicide. A third family has a son that desperately needs a kidney transplant. There's a child who's teacher made an unthinking remark about her appearance on a bad day and regrets it but the child has been teased and bullied non stop. There's also a man that's been abducting and violently beating women to death. Two of them that we are witness to. All of these stores are interconnected in some way. It wasn't a bad read. It was certainly a quick one.
26. Disordered Minds - Minette Walters
In 1970, a teenage girl was gang raped by three other teens, witnessed by her best friend and the friend's little brother. Nobody tells what happened. A few weeks later, the girls get into a fight at school. The girl that was raped gets suspended and shortly thereafter goes missing. A few days after that, an elderly woman gets killed by her grandson. Or so it seems. He is a bit slow and is scared and confesses but recants. Too late, the prosecution twists things so that they can get a conviction and he goes to jail. A few years later he kills himself. It wouldn't seem the two things are related but as the book goes on, we find that they are. In 2003, a man has written a book about wrongful convictions and the case was one he mentions. He is intrigued and is contacted by someone who also thought the conviction was wrong. They get off on the wrong foot but end up working together to unravel all the clues to prove that the grandson didn't in fact kill his grandmother and they eventually figure out what happened to the missing girl. Not bad, i kind of had a lot of it figured out but the writing was good and it was a mix of styles. You'd get emails, reports, newspaper articles, excerpts from a book, letters, as well as the regular prose and dialogue. It's not based on a true story, but you could see how something like this could happen back then.
Quiet day, been doing a bit of housework. It was actually chilly outside, there was a cold breeze coming in. Haven't decided for sure if i'm going to go to the air show tomorrow or not. Probably be a last minute thing if i do go. Or i could just be lazy and relax. My feet would probably thank me for it.
New trainer is good. A bit tougher than the last one but i like her.
and.....21 sleeps!!!
