Advantages: Great descriptions of the times, Australia Disadvantages: None
The Secret River
London 1806 - William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is the book of the month at our book club and is probably not a book I would have chosen for myself but is an extremely interesting portrail into life for people in that age and of the two countries.
This story is basically in two parts, Will's London life and then his Australian life. The two are most definitely linked to each other but in terms of Will's and Sal's feelings and adventures they are worlds apart, or you could say continents apart. The story ...
Advantages: Frothy, light, funny, witty, easy to read Disadvantages: A bit too shallow for some?
Mel is a likeable, unambitious twenty-something who works for a stationary company, who's life has been slightly a mess since her commitment-phobic boyfriend upped and left for America a year ago.
She lives with a dumpy recluse called Linda who she knows nothing about, and her best friend is Fran, a sarcastic man-eater aspiring actress. The two of them have a vague 'friend' called Amanda, who announces she's getting married. To Mel's old university crush, Fraser, who owns a pile of rubble (unknown to Amanda, who is busily an at home feature deal with OK), inherited from his father.
Amanda is a petite blonde PR girl, all sports cars and leather trousers. She's snobby, gorgeous and all the men love her. She also happens to be filthy rich, thanks to her father who spoils her mercilessly. It is obvious that Amanda is marrying Fraser ...
Advantages: Special Effects! Disadvantages: Poor performances and a far fetched story
What would you do if you found a pattern in fate?
?Knowing? is the apocalyptic tale of a teacher who discovers a pattern in a note from a child which has been buried for fifty years within a time capsule at his sons school. The numbers accurately identify major disasters of the past fifty years and when John Koestler (Nicholas Cage) pieces the clues together he learns that if this is no mere coincidence then the entire human race could be in peril; with him he drags along Rose (Diana Whelan) and their kids, Caleb and Abby who are both haunted by the ?Whisperers? a group of dark and mysterious figures.
While ?knowing? has an intriguing plot line and should keep its audience guessing it gets to the point where the story becomes so far fetched and the characters are so two-dimensional that you stop caring. Nicholas Cage has all ...
xandaried 22.09.2009
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Welcome to the Regency world of Stephanie Laurens - and to the Cynsters and their ever-expanding clan! Now, Charles Morwellan, who we first meet in "A Secret Love", one of her most beloved Cynster novels, meets his match in this exciting, and utterly sensuous, story. Charles Morwellan has no intention of following in the footsteps of his family - marrying for love - and therefore wants to find a bride before fate finds him. He is convinced that it was total devotion to love that caused his father to shirk the responsibilities of the earldom and is determined not to make the same mistakes. What Charlie doesn't realise is the woman he chose, Sarah Conningham, wants nothing less than a love match and she has no intention of letting Charlie get away with pushing her out of his life. Now, it's up to Sarah to convince Charlie that you really can have it all.
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