Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan

This book has been on my “to read” list for years. Its not a readily available book, and I tend to get most of my books from libraries, so it just hasn’t been one that I have been able to, or been inclined to, get hold of. I don’t even know where to start now [...]

Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire

I really enjoyed this book. I picked it up off the biography shelf at the library because the title just seemed to jump out at me. The book is a memoir of a boy growing up in Cuba, who is then sent to the live in the USA when Fidel Castro comes to power – [...]

Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan

This is a very unusual book. The story is told by a dead character who is in a form of limbo and can see, feel, hear everything that goes on with her friends left behind in the land of the living. She was supposed to be leading a tour of  Burma and so she follows [...]

Lessons in Heartbreak by Cathy Kelly

Cathy Kelly is well known chick lit writer and her books are consistently good. This one was a little ho hum, but I have mentioned before that I think I need a break from chick lit. The flatness of some of the characters meant they just didn’t grab me the way you need chick lit [...]

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

So, I thought I had actually read this and found it hard work and not that amazing. And yet I kept hearing people rave about it. When we were packing up to go on holiday the week before last I found my copy in amongst a big stack of other books and so I put [...]

Every Boy’s Got One by Meg Cabot

This book was written in the letter, text, email format but I wonder if the story would have been better served by a traditional format. I don’t know if I have just read too much chick lit, but this one seemed way too predictable to me. I could have told you ending after reading the [...]

The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay has written some  pretty readable books and while they verge on the super-dramatic, they are definitely hard to put down, engrossing and easy to read. The Potato Factory is probably one of the best of his books. I also enjoyed April Fool’s Day (although “enjoyed” might not be the right word, given that [...]