Being ‘down’ is part of the process, in my opinion, I’d be very leery of anybody who was ‘up’ all the time. Personally, i think a drug screening would be warranted.
Mr Modem AKA Richard A Sherman
Be brief, for it is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey
When the question is therefore asked, ‘Are writers made or born?’ one should first ask, ‘Do you mean writers with talent or writers with originality?’ Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms for writing.
Jack Kerouac
My first glimpse of Elizabeth Gunn and Jack Hines and, although I’m not yet addicted, this was a novel I enjoyed as it was a quick read and had very good aspects of it.
I found the beginning court room drama slow going but once the verdict was in things started heating up and became interesting. The relationship and struggles of Trudy and Jack remind everyone how things will work out in the end if they are meant to and give the reader hope of a better tomorrow.
Gunn’s sixth Jake Hines mystery has me curious as how the tale of Jake began as well as how it will end.
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Sarah Butland
An unusual novel for me to purchase but one I fell upon by chance and quite enjoyed. The Lovely Bones is written from the perspective of a murdered teenager, barely old enough to experience a school girl crush, and the characters view from heaven, or Sebold’s version of heaven.
The reader follows the murder and the life and death afterwards through Suzie herself and her family. Dealing with such a shocking loss in a small town is something none of us want to consider, live through or ponder as each person has their own way of dealing or ignoring the tragedy. Read how Sebold winds the tale of deceit, acceptance, ignorance, etc with the way everyone treats the value of the families loss.
Some say this only scratches the surface of the tale that could have been and I agree although, like any good book, it left me pondering the situation and the possibilities while not forcing me into Sebold’s views.
Thanks for reading,
Sarah Butland
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