I'm an author, but I'm also a reader. Each month, I'll share with you reviews of present and past reads. My available time to read is limited because I write, but I love to curl up with a paperback or an eBook at night for the last hour of my day.
I tend to read what I write, but not exclusively. Besides
Romantic Suspense, I read crime and law novels, once in a while a true story, WWII
historicals, mysteries, and mainstream character driven books.
Here are some of the books I've read recently or in the not-too-distant past.
Maybe you'll discover a new book or author.
A car crashes in Wyoming: A
young mother is thrown clear of the devastating crash. Dazed, she sees a figure
pull her son from the flames. Or does she? The police believe it's trauma
playing tricks on the mind, until the woman hears a voice on the phone: “Your
baby is alive.”
A bomb explodes in Rio de Janeiro: The heinous
act kills ten people, including two journalists. Jack Gannon's assignment is to
find out whether his colleagues were innocent victims or targets who got too
close to a huge story.
A Caribbean cruise ends in horror: Doctors are
desperate to identify the cause of a passenger's agonizing death. They turn to
the world's top scientists, who fear that someone has resurrected their secret
research. Research that is now being used as a deadly weapon.
With millions of lives at stake, experts work
frantically against time. And as an anguished mother searches for her child and
Jack Gannon pursues the truth, an unstoppable force hurls them all into the
panic zone.
Review
Four mothers, four daughters,
four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's
"saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants
to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United
in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club.
Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and
money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to
prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and
history continue.
With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the
sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and
daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about
her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or
despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the
inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute
storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of
complexity and mystery.
I’ve been so busy writing, I've had little time for reading. I had to pull a book from my past to review. I read this book thirteen years ago. I can’t give it enough kudos. It’s a heart-tugger. It’s complex. It’s intriguing. Highly recommend.
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