The House of Windjammer-V.A. Richardson

As the title suggests, the story follows the Windjammer family which has been in the shipping business for at least a 100 years. As is common for shipping companies, their fortunes rely heavily on good fortune, and good weather with a bit of business skill thrown in. Sadly the Windjammers luck seems to have run out. To young Adam Windjammer falls the responsibility of the family fortunes.

Adam is a dodo. And so are some of the other characters. I really hate it when the main character is a dodo. There are enough dodo's in real life. Maybe I'm just too old for this story. It's a shame as I felt the story in itself is okay.

genre-drama
recommended reading for 8-10year olds, and maybe even young adults.

Like Angels Falling-Jane Adams

A cult leader who was imprisoned for the murder of three young boys dies. His death sets off a chain of events which is especially horrifying for the town where the 3 boys were murdered. The cult he was apart of, is still in operation and immediately comes under suspicion.

An interesting tale which moves at a good pace and has a satisfying ending.
Genre-murder mystery

Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman

It's a story about a woman called Rebecca who was very secretive about her past and died young. The tale is told from 4 people's perspectives, one of whom is Rebecca.

I struggled through the first half of this book. I felt that the 3rd part was finally getting interesting, but by then, I was so sick of the book I couldn't bear to read it anymore. Sad but true.

So this is in the pile of uncompleteds.

genre-drama

It's been a while.

Since I rely heavily on the local library for my reading material, and I live in a country where English is not the spoken language, my reading material is rather restricted. The good side to that is that I am forced to broaden my horizons, the bad side of that, is my broadened horizons seems to include a lot of crap books.

My list of books which I have only only half read, has grown considerably. It used to be I would only have one or 2 a year. hence the reason the have been so few entries recently. Also, I tend to do a lot of my book reviews on Facebook now.

But, I resolve to continue.