Alice and Alaïs are two women connected through time and secrets. Alice, living in 2005, finds a cave with two skeletons in it. How old are these, why are they here and who are they? As soon as she discovered them it is obvious they are very important still to some people and Alice is now involved in a big web of deceit, crime and a very religious cult full of secrets.
Many centuries earlier we follow Alaïs, a young woman with a free spirit but within walls. All the secrets Alice is struggling with start with her and through her eyes we will gather the information to understand the secrets that should have been burried for eternity.

The story sound interesting enough, and it kind of was. It is hard to explain, but I kept reading without wanting to know what would happen next. A very strange experience indeed. Not a good read, not an interesting read, but just enough of a read to keep going.

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Jaine Austen (yes, her “mother is an Anglophile, and a bad speller”) has her own writing service and one day she has to write a letter for geeky Howard, who wants to ask a blonde female fitness instructor named Stacy for a date. Jaine is a bit reluctant to write it, but in the end, does what is asked by her client — money had a big influence in that decision. She had better gone with her instinct to refuse him, because next thing she knows, Howard is in prison, arrested for the murder of Stacy.
Jaine is 100% sure, Howard isn’t the culprit. The only thing she has to do now is prove her female intuition is right. Something that easier said than done.

I expected a really nice read, but didn’t get it. Just before reading this one, I read Three bedrooms, one corpse by Charlaine Harris and what I was afraid of that would happen in the plot didn’t. Unfortunately, in the story of Jaine Austen it did. -show spoiler

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Black Jack is a surgeon without a license, but he performs the most difficult and amazing surgeries for big bucks. People in real trouble will contact him as a last resort and he always pulls through.

This book has nine chapters — nine surgeries — but none of them confinced me I was reading something I could like. The stories, as the characters, were shallow. For me this book shouldn’t be allowed to call itself graphic novel.

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The book started promising. You get to know the characters and you think the rest will be a good story about these people in a small American town. In a way you get what you thought, but not entirely. For one, I never really got to know the characters, they didn’t move me in any way. Second, I never got in the different storylines and the story as a whole. The story didn’t sweep me away from my own living room into the world created. Third, there is always a time and place for different subjects. So when this book started to give me political and social standards between North and South and black and white, my lust for reading decreased with every word I read. No subtleties there and I think the way it is brought to us here, doesn’t belong in a fiction book. The storyline of Mick Kelly, a twelve year old girl, is interesting enough, with her way of experiencing the world and the people around her, but the storyline of doctor Copeland and Portia, I really didn’t like because of the political nature. The other storylines, of Mr. Singer, Biff Brannon and Jake Blount were good enough at times to keep me going, but I still can’t be enthusiastic about the book. It didn’t affect me like I expect a good read to do. I only registered what I read, but couldn’t make a world out of it.

It’s a story of loss of innocence, a loss of self and a loss of life. So what should have been a brilliant story is, for me, nothing more than a book I tried to get through as quick as possible so I could start a new book.

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When her best friend Cynthia commits suicide, and leaves a message in which she stated a big part of her reason was her husband Gil, Annie knows she wants to get even with him. Together with her two friends, Brenda and Elise she sets up the First Wives Club. They want to take all their first husbands, the bastards, down, each in a way that will hurt them the most.

That’s all there is to say about the story and I have to be honest here, I struggled to get through. The plot never became interesting enough to really grab me and the characters were too “one-dimensional” for my liking. That may work in a film, the movie version is funny, but it isn’t enough when you want to make a funny book. And that’s another thing:
Where authors like Helen Fielding and Marian Keyes are funny, Olivia Goldsmith tries hard to be, but she just doesn’t get it done in my humble opinion.

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Well, what to say about this book: for once the movie is better.

The main character is Benny Hogan, a big “well boned” girl. She grows up in a little village in Ireland (Knockglen), but wants to go to university in Dublin and break free from her religious and adoring parents together with her best friend Eve Malone. She goes to university, but has to come home every day after college. She obeys until she meets Jack Foley and Nan Mahon. Together with some other friends, they really grow up, what is especially hard for Benny, because of her parents. They want to see her married to the clerk of her father. But Benny has fallen for Jack.
Now, life isn’t as easy as it used to be and some hard decisions have to be made by every single member of the “circle of friends”.

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I can’t quite explain what is wrong with this book, but something just isn’t right. I see the humor in the book, it is even my kind of humor, but still I don’t know.

What the book supposed to be about is: Chris Duffy, a has-been writer in the autumn of his life is in his way trying to get published again. What I read however is: Chris Duffy, a writer of age who is always drunk, irritating to his fellow humans and self-absorbed is trying to get published or at least famous again all means necessary, even if that means, getting his hands on a unpublished script of his favorite writer and publish it under his own name. Maybe such a main character can be humorous, for me he was just annoying. In all his self-inflicted misery he couldn’t count on my sympathy.

Sorry Duffy, you’re on your own!

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58 year old Harry Bliss is trying to understand the suicide of his wife Alison six years ago. Doing so he returns to “the scene of the crime” together with the 19 year old daughter of his best friend. She, Helen, looks a lot like Arabella, the second wife of his great-grandfather, who also killed herself in the same way and at the same place as Alison. They both walked into the sea until they got swept away and drowned.
Because Alison was a famous model, had written a bestseller and was in the middle of writing another book, the press never stopped bothering Harry, especially Gordon Hake. He thinks that Harry burned the manuscript of the second book.
Harry gets in contact with Judith Frazer, a professor English, who wants to use Alison’s story for a biography. Harry also meets up with Ern Higham and at the end of the book gets the “whole” story of what happened with Alison and Arabella.

Well, an interesting enough story to grab you, you would think. But it couldn’t grab me. I don’t understand how it is a thriller. For me there were no elements of a thriller in it. The story never disturbed or surprised me. The book is written in one metaphor after the other and most of the facts are given to us three times in a row. I also got the feeling the author wanted us to know she is a graduate and she knows her names of famous poets and philosophers. No need for the names in the story but they are summed up to us like it is nothing.
All these things irritated me and made the book a struggle to get through, although it may have been the Dutch translation (Een perfecte glimlach) that did most of the damage.

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