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Monday, October 20, 2008

Busy woman seeks wife by Annie Sanders

This particular book is not normally the type of novel I like to read, but the title grabbed my attention and I was intrigued to find out what it was all about. I was quite surprised. I am able to somewhat sympathise a little with the main character of the book. I know what it’s like to be a busy woman in this day and age and never seem to find the time to get things done, especially when it comes to household chores.
The story follows the life of Alex, a marketing executive for a global sportswear company who never seems to find time to manage her sky rocketing career with the day-to-day necessities of life, such as cleaning her house, grocery shopping, cooking, and looking after her aging and retired actress of a mother. This is where her best friend Saffron comes up with the idea of seeking out a wife to help her out. They place an advertisement in the local paper to find the perfect person for the position. But, not everything goes according to plan. This opened up the opportunity for quite a few hilarious situations that kept you absorbed in to the end.
You’ll enjoy this light hearted novel that is a great satisfying read. It is insightful, moving, uplifting, and funny all in one book.
Amy

Addition by Toni Jordan

Grace Lisa Vandenburg is a powerful, 35 year old woman, but in her own world. Unfortunately what she sees as the norm, others do not. Through leading her life via the counting of numbers, her change in lifestyle has evolved into a déjà vu-like regime.
At one stage, Grace was a well respected teacher of mathematics. That is, until she continuously kept on “totting up the number of children, rather than teaching [them].” Unfortunately, this led her to unemployment and a day-to-day boring scheme of counting and dividing her muffins into respectful pieces to the amount of poppy seeds on her food.
This book addresses so many more themes then just the authority of judging people into categories such as “normal people” and it is this that intrigues the reader into reading more…and more…and more of the book. In saying this, I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone, not just young or old etc, but to someone who just wants a good read. To make this piece of narrative more appealing, it was advertised in the “50 Books You Can’t Put Down” and Sigrid Thorton herself said this book was ‘A stylish, witty and moving love story.’
Sara

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Great working horse stories by Angela Goode

For all horse lovers and lovers of Australian history this CD is for you. It will make you laugh, cry, ponder and reflect. The 150 true short stories and poems range from colonial days to the Olympic opening ceremony.
Stories from another era, like these, are so important. We have to remember that soon there will be no-one who remembers. The horse was once “king”, a subject for conversation everywhere that men gathered. Everybody had a story to tell. They were very much a part of peoples lives.
These CD’s are so easy to listen to and incredibly informative. They let you into the lives of the people who rode, ploughed, hauled and drove this nation to its feet.
Tracie

Firefight by Chris Ryan

Just suppose you’re out shopping one day with your wife and daughter looking for Christmas presents. You tell you them to go on ahead so you can sneak back and buy your daughter the present she desperately wants for Christmas. In the space of 2 minutes your life is changed forever. Your wife and daughter have been killed by a bomb that has ripped through the department store. Fast forward 2 years, and Will Jackson is no longer in the SAS. He is living in a grungy Council Flat near the cemetery where his family is buried. The pain of losing his family has turned him into a hard drinking recluse.
One day he is out walking when he is “kidnapped” and taken to London, where he is made an offer he can’t refuse. The powers that be want him back on the job. There has been intelligence that in the next 3 weeks a terrorist bomb will rip through the heart of London. MI5 believe that Will might be the only person who can help them track down the terrorist and also help them find out who the mole is in the intelligence world who is feeding information to the enemy. Wanting to turn his back on this world forever, he refuses to have any part of the operation. MI5 then plays their trump card – the terrorist they are after is the one responsible for killing Will’s wife and child. From that moment on Will becomes a man on a very dangerous mission that he is hell bent on seeing through to the end, damn the consequences.
This novel gives the reader a no-hold barred behind the scenes look at terrorism, the intelligence community and the ways wars are fought and not always won. Throughout the story you also get a background history lesson into how the war on terror got started, which not only helps you understand the story better, but also helps you understand the current world political situation.
Frighteningly real in parts and very explicit in the description of how information is obtained and whether or not the end justifies the means. I think this is Chris Ryan’s best book to date. He is writing about the world he used to inhabit and he does so with such graphic detail that you wonder if this is just fiction or something he really experienced when he was in the SAS. I read this book in one afternoon because it pulled me in so hard I just couldn’t put it down.
Chris