The Content Reader

My reviews have been rare recently, mainly due to lack of time. I hope to have more time soon, but in the meantime, here are a few mini reviews of books I have read recently. Kate Hannigan's Girl by Catherine Cookson One of my favourite authors when I was younger, but I have not read any of her books lately. When I read Cliff Goodwin's biography of her, To be a Lady: Story of Catherine Cookson , I was curious to read one again. I got hold of this book on a book fair. It is a continuation of the book Kate Hannigan,  but you can easily read this one without first having read the previous. It is about Annie, illegitimate daughter of Kate, and her coming of age, falling in love, finding her way in life, and being harassed by evil Catherine. It is an easy enough read, and Cookson manages to balance the romance with the harsh realities of life at the time. You can feel with the characters. That is probably why she was so popular. The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht It wa...

For this Friday's beginning and page 56 and I using The Tiger's Wife  by Téa Obreht, which I am reading now. I have had it for quite a while, and bought it because the blurb sounds intriguing. "A young doctor, Natalia, struggles to make sense of her grandfather's death in a Balkan country still scarred by war. From fragments of stories her grandfather told her as a child, Natalia realises he may have died searching for 'The deathless man', a vagabond who was said to be immortal. Struggling to understand why a man of science would undertake such a quest, she stumbles upon a clue that will lead her to a tattered copy of The Jungle Book,  and then to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife." So far so good! Book beginnings on Fridays hosted by Rose City Reader "In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers." The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice "Apparently, this is how ...