Freedom ~ Jonathan Franzen

X NO X

National Book Critics Circle Award : finalist 2010
Tournament of Books : 2011 (finalist)

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Sing, And Don't Cry ~ Cate Kennedy

** RECOMMEND **

An absolute joy
Just wish I had read it before the trip to Mexico


Cate spent a year in Mexico as a volunteer worker in a poor Mexican community.

Her observations are compassionate and heartfelt but never condescending or judgmental. She recognises and acknowledges, and maybe even envies, the richness they find in their impoverished lives.

The World Beneath ~ Cate Kennedy

** RECOMMEND **

Dexter Is Delicious ~ Jeff Lindsay

The Wide Sargasso Sea ~ Jean Rys

Purchased at City Lights Bookshop, San Francisco
Reviewed on First Tuesday Book Club

This is the story of the first Mrs Rocherster. It is a prequel or a sister novel to Jane Eyre.

It is set mainly in the Caribbean and maybe it was the fecund heat of the tropics rotting everyone's existence but I found that there was a lot of second guessing with the plot, a lot of reading between the lines and still not being sure that you "got" it.

The writing style was not for me.

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Heart Of Darkness ~ Joseph Conrad

The Chemistry of Death ~ Simon Beckett

The Well at World's End ~ A. J. Mackinnon

Written in Bone ~ Simon Beckett

The Singapore School of Villainy ~ Shamini Flint