Love in the Present Tense – Buy this book
Rating
3 stars – Enjoyable read – but slightly forgettable
Description
For five years Pearl has managed to keep the past from catching up to her and her bright, frail five-year-old son. Life has given her every reason to mistrust people, but circumstances force her to trust her neighbor Mitch [...]

The Book Thief – Buy this book
Rating
5 stars – outstanding – a truly beautiful tale
Description
1939 – Nazi Germany – The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals [...]

On Chesil Beach – Buy this book

Rating
2 stars – not worth the hype!
Description
From these new heights they could see clearly, but they could not describe to each other certain contradictory feelings: they separately worried about the moment, sometime soon after dinner, when their new maturity would be tested, when they would lie down together on [...]

The Shakespeare Secret – buy a copy
Rating
4 stars – enjoyed it immensely but can’t see it going on the re-read pile
Description
A modern serial killer – hunting an ancient secret. A woman is left to die as the rebuilt Globe theatre burns. Another woman is drowned like Ophelia, skirts swirling in the water. A professor has [...]

Meyer does not disappoint in the final part of the Cullen trilogy – the love triangle continues as Bella fights to combine her obsessive love for Edward with her friendship with her soul-mate Jacob