29-09-2005, 11:44 PM
Hi Everyone
Well now that the :braai: are over and the summer is almost gone :leaf: - time to curl up on the sofa :engel: and get buried in a book.
So what is everyone reading at the moment - what books have you got planned for the hibernating months ?
I have just finished a Mary Higgins Clark book - No Place Like Home. Although not one of her best books, I rather enjoyed this one ! Still exciting psychologically, and a little far fetched - but on the whole still a good thriller!
Synopsis
Growing up under an assumed identity after accidentally shooting her mother and escaping her abusive father, Liza Barton, still fearful that her past will reclaim her, is shocked when her husband inadvertently buys her childhood home.
I have now started The Laments by George Hagen and this promises to be a good novel
A novel which is, like George HagenÂ’s The Laments, about a continent-hopping family might seem like yesterdayÂ’s news when an international upbringing now seems almost de rigueur amongst writers. Yet this is no self-aggrandising romp round the world. Howard LamentÂ’s grand plans for a better life and career lead his family from colonial Rhodesia to a bigoted, hypocritical 1970s New Jersey, via BahrainÂ’s blinkered ex-pat community and a violent small town in England.
The novel spans the eighteen years from WillÂ’s birth and the secret of his adoption by the Laments to his graduation from high school. The first years in Africa provide a solid foundation to the story. It is when Will is a little older, and the family have left the obviously unjust colony that HagenÂ’s skill at peppering the story with culture shocks and mischievous details really enlivens the LamentsÂ’ travels and WillÂ’s friendships and loves.
Luckily the reader is kept chuckling, because Hagen takes us unflinchingly into the depression of HowardÂ’s spectacularly failed career, his wife JuliaÂ’s loneliness and the reality of family poverty. Tragedy never turns to bitterness though, and the charactersÂ’ final, tempered hopefulness is a well-earned haven for this long-adrift family.
Well now that the :braai: are over and the summer is almost gone :leaf: - time to curl up on the sofa :engel: and get buried in a book.
:read: :read: :read:
So what is everyone reading at the moment - what books have you got planned for the hibernating months ?
I have just finished a Mary Higgins Clark book - No Place Like Home. Although not one of her best books, I rather enjoyed this one ! Still exciting psychologically, and a little far fetched - but on the whole still a good thriller!
Synopsis
Growing up under an assumed identity after accidentally shooting her mother and escaping her abusive father, Liza Barton, still fearful that her past will reclaim her, is shocked when her husband inadvertently buys her childhood home.
I have now started The Laments by George Hagen and this promises to be a good novel
A novel which is, like George HagenÂ’s The Laments, about a continent-hopping family might seem like yesterdayÂ’s news when an international upbringing now seems almost de rigueur amongst writers. Yet this is no self-aggrandising romp round the world. Howard LamentÂ’s grand plans for a better life and career lead his family from colonial Rhodesia to a bigoted, hypocritical 1970s New Jersey, via BahrainÂ’s blinkered ex-pat community and a violent small town in England.
The novel spans the eighteen years from WillÂ’s birth and the secret of his adoption by the Laments to his graduation from high school. The first years in Africa provide a solid foundation to the story. It is when Will is a little older, and the family have left the obviously unjust colony that HagenÂ’s skill at peppering the story with culture shocks and mischievous details really enlivens the LamentsÂ’ travels and WillÂ’s friendships and loves.
Luckily the reader is kept chuckling, because Hagen takes us unflinchingly into the depression of HowardÂ’s spectacularly failed career, his wife JuliaÂ’s loneliness and the reality of family poverty. Tragedy never turns to bitterness though, and the charactersÂ’ final, tempered hopefulness is a well-earned haven for this long-adrift family.
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