Seven Year Switch - Claire Cook
Okay, well that was a fun beachy novel. Boy meets girl. Boy abandons girl and young daughter. Girl gets on with her life and is doing fine without him, thank you very much. Girl meets other boy. Boy returns...
I had a hard time getting over the fact that they'd named their daughter Anastasia, but other than that, I enjoyed this one.
Not Pretty But Precious - John Hay
This one, on the other hand, started out kinda strange, and just got weirder. An odd old-fashioned story about a plain woman entering into a marriage of convenience with a charming, worldly ladies man circa 1800's. Once I got used to the writing style it was okay. After a hundred pages or so it took an abrupt turn and new characters were introduced, but the writing style and the period remained the same. When it took another strange turn another hundred pages on, with a completely different tone to the writing, I figured out that I was probably reading short stories. I hate when that happens! Not sure if it really was short stories or if they were later seamed together somehow, I gave up up on it. I'm glad it was free.
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3 comments:
do you stay up late reading? when do you have time to read? really, i am just jealous, i will probably forget how to read english, only 9 more months. will you be home from mexico? (es una broma!) i am excited for you.
I always have time to read. Of course when people at work are discussing some TV show, I have no clue what they're talking about. Our TV can go weeks without being turned on.
I'll try to be back from Mexico by the time you get home. ( es una otra chiste)
I had to look up broma, hopefully you'll have to look up chiste.
wrong, i did have to look it up !but because you said otra...it kind of gave it away. did you take a spanish course this year?
you should fb "raising canine" this is our daughter-in-laws new business, guess they mentioned it on the radio this a.m. she is pretty excited. doug has found some tv channels on line, so we have started to watch some tv. but there are not many english books around. so i watch tv. but it is a big waste of time. have a great day.
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