4) Red Tape and White Knuckles – Lois Pryce

Posted by lynne On January - 20 - 2010View Comments

After Lois on the Loose I was eager to get started on Red Tape and White Knuckles – it’s books by Lois Pryce that get me Googling flights and talking incessently about getting ‘out of here ASAP’!

In certain chapters you can’t turn the pages fast enough to find out if she got off the train safely (and wihtout soldier-related incident), if she managed to get back to the main road avoiding any landmines or if her crazy guide managed to find the road again after off-roading it in the sahara! Read the rest of this entry »

3) A Quiet Flame – Philip Kerr

Posted by lynne On January - 14 - 2010View Comments

This was my second attempt at reading A Quiet Flame as somehow it just didn’t grab me the first time. Anyway, I’m not one to give up on a book so I left it a while and came back to it.

The second time I read this I had to persevere with it over the first few chapters as it was once again just not grabbing me. Read the rest of this entry »

Blink has been on our bookshelf for good long while now and I’ve meant to read it for as long as it’s been there. What with my New Year Resolution I figured the time had come and I may as well read it now.

The book itself was really interesting and there were loads of points throughout reading it where I had to stop and consider my own actions or first impressions (that I had got from other people). Read the rest of this entry »

A friend bought me The Brightest Star in the Sky for Christmas. I hadn’t read a Marian Keyes book for well over a year and I was just in the mood for something a bit slushy. Read the rest of this entry »