World War II holds a certain interest for me. I have to wonder if it is because I would be speaking a completely different language and my country would be a little red blip on the world map if events had turned out otherwise. Anyway whatever the reason I do read the occasional book on that era. This book is about the previous 100 years and the reasons why Japan bombed Pearl Harbour on that fateful morning of December 7th, 1941. Now after saying that you won’t necessarily like the answers that this book holds. Continue reading “The Imperial Cruise By James Bradley”
Love in a Nutshell By Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly
This is the story of a girl who goes home. Well she goes to the home she grew up in. Her parents are no longer there and the house is falling down and it is also in default. But apart from that everything is hunky dory. Oh well not quite, she is also still reeling a little from a divorce in which she lost not only a philandering husband but also her beloved dog. So our heroine, Kate, needs a job, needs to fix up her home and sort herself out emotionally. Continue reading “Love in a Nutshell By Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly”
Death Comes to Pemberley By P.D. James
I just realized that I hadn’t reviewed this after seeing it for another week in the top 10 of the New York Times best seller list. Oops. Well I will do my best to get this out. I did read it a few weeks ago but can remember how brill it was. From the beginning of this story you are transported to a Jane Austen novel. That probably sounds really goofy but it is true. Continue reading “Death Comes to Pemberley By P.D. James”