If Only in My Dreams
IF ONLY IN MY DREAMS by Wendy Markham is my first book by the author and I liked it very much. The female protagonist Clara McCallum has just landed a huge part starring in a WWII film as a woman in love with a doomed soldier named Jed Landry. At the same time she’s also diagnosed with breast cancer, which leaves her devastated. While filming, she’s magically transported back in time to 1941 where she meets the real-life Landry; it takes her some time before she realizes that she’s no longer on the set but the real thing.
Garden Spells
GARDEN SPELLS by Sarah Addison Allen is a book I owned since July last year but only started reading this year. It is an enchanting story of two Waverley women of Bascom, North Carolina. The sisters, Claire and Sydney, were abandoned by their mother when they were young and brought up by their grandmother. Like the magic in this story, the pages of this novel turned effortlessly too.
Claire is the center of the story and she is very much a reserved woman.
Dogs and Goddesses
If you like stories with dogs and interesting men, you would like this novel. I sure did! DOGS AND GODDESSES is a fun read, full of smart dialogues and dogs that talk. You would understand dog-talk after taking the temple tonics offered by the risen-again ancient goddess, Kammani Gula, as in the case of the three female protagonists in the story.
Abby Richmond, Daisy Harris and Shar Summer are three women who crossed path at a local dog obedience-training school. The dog trainer is the now-risen Mesopotamian goddess Kammani […]
Let the Right One In
The story begins in Part One on 21 October 1981 and ends in Part Five on Friday 13 November. A lot happen in that slightly more than three weeks’ time—dark and disturbing. I am glad I read the book because it is so different from the vampire books I have devoured (oh yes, I’m quite fond of vampires and the paranormal world).
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN is about a child vampire living in Blackeberg in the suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. But this child, Eli, is actually a 200-year-old vampire [...]
Savor the Moment (Book Three in the Bride Quartet)
SAVOR THE MOMENT by Nora Roberts is the third book in the Bride Quartet. In the Bride Quartet, we meet childhood friends Parker, Emma, Laurel, and Mac, and their love stories. Together, they are the co-owners of Vows, a wedding planning company.
In Book 3, we savor the love and tension between wedding baker Laurel McBane and Ivy League lawyer Delaney "Del" Brown who also happens to be Parker’s older brother. Parker’s story will be the last one in the quartet, Happy Ever After.
Laurel has had a mega crush on Parker’s older brother Del for the longest time from childhood.
Page 69
"Marshall McLuhan, the guru of The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), recommends that the browser turn to page 69 of any book and read it. If you like that page, buy the book. It works. Rule One, then: browse powerfully and read page 69."
The above is an extract from John Sutherland's HOW TO READ A NOVEL: A User's Guide.
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