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Follow Friday, is hosted by ParaJunkee, Book Blogger Hop, is hosted by Jennifer (Crazy-For-Books), and Follow Friday 40 and over is hosted by Java.
Jennifer says "Let’s talk crazy book titles! Highlight one or two (or as many as you like!) titles in your personal collection that have the most interesting titles! If you can’t find any, feel free to find one on the internet!"
It’s National Book Week. The rules: Grab the closest book to you. Go to page 56. Copy the 5th sentence as your status.
I'm afraid I'm a bit gloomy by nature.
~~Incognito by Gregory Murphy
"What do you mean, news?”
“Well, at least you have your priorities in order.” My brother sounded like he was pouting. I remembered the way he would hide under the kitchen table when our parents fought, refusing to come out.
Title: Close Your Eyes
Author: Amanda Eyre Ward
ISBN: 978-0345494481
Publisher: Random House/2011
Pages: 272
This books open in 1986, where Lauren Mahdian and Alex are kids, six and eigth, respectively. When Lauren wakes up from a nightmarish dream, she finds her mother murdered and father arrested of the same crime. Alex and Lauren are bound by that tragedy. Alex has always been in touch with their father, writing him letters and calling him. However, Lauren has no contact with her father.
Come to 2010, Alex, now a doctor and wants to do something. He goes to Iraq and disappears. Lauren is now utterly alone, with no one to turn to. Her boyfriend, Gerry, is a good person but Lauren is unable to get close to him. Slowly, Lauren tries to unravel the truth from her memories, to find out what really happened that night.
We find that Sylvia and Victoria are strangely connected to the Mahdian family. How? The answers to that one keeps the reader in tenterhooks until the end. It is about love between siblings, about love for ones parents and also about that love, which the giver can't understand. Lauren has this strange compulsion to find out everything after Alex disappears. It is her love for him that forces her to seek the truth which she had always tried to brush aside.
It has the right element of suspense, mystery and a good story line. All in all, a good read.
Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at A Girl and Her Books. Staci from Life in the Thumb is hosting for the month of August.
I received one book, thanks to the author:
1) Close Your Eyes by Amanda Eyre Ward:
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila of Book Journey.
I finished two books after SO long:
2) Close Your Eyes by Amanda Eyre Ward
If you were (are) going on vacation, what books would you take with you?
I usually pick a book of poetry and lots of crime fiction!
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| Dad with mom, a year before he was gone... |
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| Moi with my three brothers, a rare photo!! |
What’s the last book you were really EXCITED to read? And, were you excited about it in advance? Or did the excitement bloom while you were reading it? Are there any books you’re excited about right NOW?
There are too many books, good books, that need to be read. Therefore, I don't need to be excited about a to-be published one.
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week, we get a theme to list our top tens.
This week's Top Ten is: Top Ten Trends You Would Like to See More or Less of
I would like to see more of:
1) Crime Fiction
2) Historical books
3) Travelogues
4) Good Detectives
5) Characters like Tintin and Asterix
6) More Libraries
7) More bookstores
8) Difficult issues tackled
9) Good old comedy authors
10) And Poetry!!!
I would like to see less of:
1) Paranormal Fiction (totally sucks)
2) Fantasy (Up to the gills with it)
3) Recycled Twilight stuff (never did get around reading the original ones either!)
4) Recycled Jane Austen novels (come on, can't you write your own novels?)
5) Zombie Books (YUCK!!)
6) Chick Lit
7) Explicit Sex
8) Explicit Violence
9) YA Novels (Let those not be marketed for Adult readers)
10) Unreadable fonts!!
I recognized Elvis's voice.
"Killed who?" I asked, stopping in my tracks. "Who's killed?"
~Page 50, The Superman Project by A E Roman
Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at A Girl and Her Books. Staci from Life in the Thumb is hosting for the month of August.
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila of Book Journey.
I have not being soliciting or buying books. And to top it all, I am also refusing to receiving and reviewing novels. I did participate in giveaways after a long time but won nothing!! No wonder, my mailbox is empty.
That suits me fine, I suppose, as I am not doing any reading either. No single book finished in the 31 days of July. I no longer care if I read or not....That is good or bad, I don't know.....
