Thanks for the Memories
5 journalers for this copy...
How can you know someone you've never met? Joyce Conway remembers things she shouldn't. She knows about tiny cobbled streets in Paris, which she has never visited. And every night she dreams about an unknown little girl with blonde hair.
Justin Hitchcock is divorced, lonely and restless. He arrives in Dublin to give a lecture on art and meets an attractive doctor, who persuades him to donate blood. It's the first thing to come straight from his heart in a long time.
When Joyce leaves hospital after a terrible accident, with her life and her marriage in pieces, she moves back in with her elderly father. All the while, a strong sense of deja vu is overwhelming her and she can't figure out why.
Justin Hitchcock is divorced, lonely and restless. He arrives in Dublin to give a lecture on art and meets an attractive doctor, who persuades him to donate blood. It's the first thing to come straight from his heart in a long time.
When Joyce leaves hospital after a terrible accident, with her life and her marriage in pieces, she moves back in with her elderly father. All the while, a strong sense of deja vu is overwhelming her and she can't figure out why.
INTL bookray:
The Usual Rules Apply
1. When you receive the book make a journal entry so that we all know that it has arrived safely.
2. After you have read the book, journal what you thought of it.
3. Contact the next person after you in the list for their address. Remembering to check who is after you, this may change as new people are added to try to keep the postage costs down.
4. Send the book on.
5. If you are going to keep the book for more than a month contact Deepswamp or make a journal entry, so I know the ring is not stalled. If you are contacted for your address and you have thousands of bookrings in your TBR pile, instead of holding up the ring or skipping the book, the order may be able to be changed so that you don't miss out. PM Deepswamp. Keep postage in mind though.
6. Any questions or problems PM Deepswamp, anytime.
7. Enjoy the ray! and please consider leaving a tiny footprint to show it was in your hands, mine is a "cat" on page 13.
Participants:
WormyOne UK
teggers UK
Lottiotta UK
Babelfisk Sweden
Vilda Sweden
Bokwormy Portugal
kbmarsh UK
Kikki66 Germany
lauraloo Canada
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I list this bookrings at The Bookring Directory!
The Usual Rules Apply
1. When you receive the book make a journal entry so that we all know that it has arrived safely.
2. After you have read the book, journal what you thought of it.
3. Contact the next person after you in the list for their address. Remembering to check who is after you, this may change as new people are added to try to keep the postage costs down.
4. Send the book on.
5. If you are going to keep the book for more than a month contact Deepswamp or make a journal entry, so I know the ring is not stalled. If you are contacted for your address and you have thousands of bookrings in your TBR pile, instead of holding up the ring or skipping the book, the order may be able to be changed so that you don't miss out. PM Deepswamp. Keep postage in mind though.
6. Any questions or problems PM Deepswamp, anytime.
7. Enjoy the ray! and please consider leaving a tiny footprint to show it was in your hands, mine is a "cat" on page 13.
Participants:
WormyOne UK
teggers UK
Lottiotta UK
Babelfisk Sweden
Vilda Sweden
Bokwormy Portugal
kbmarsh UK
Kikki66 Germany
lauraloo Canada
?
?
I list this bookrings at The Bookring Directory!
Journal Entry 3 by Deepswamp at A fellow BookCrosser, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Friday, December 19, 2008
Journal Entry 4 by WormyOne from Brighton & Hove, East Sussex United Kingdom on Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Arrived safely. Thank you. I'll read it and journal it, and pass it on after my book club has met to discuss it on January 28th. I love the book cover, bookmark and card by the way. How lovely.
Journal Entry 5 by WormyOne from Brighton & Hove, East Sussex United Kingdom on Sunday, January 4, 2009
I read this because it was chosen by my book group. It’s as lightweight as I expected, though I enjoyed the first third more than I anticipated, finding a fun idea being used to tell an amusing story, with pace.
Unfortunately, there isn’t enough in the idea to fill a novel (either that or the author hasn’t got the talent to make it do so). So, for the second third, it descends into farce with the main characters getting into ridiculous situations (having a stolen waste-paper bin valued on a live episode of Antiques Roadshow for example). This caused me to lose patience and long for some character development or depth to the story.
To make matters worse, to produce the final third of the book, the story is padded out with irritating Mills & Boon-esque plot developments. Ahern contrives as many ways as possible to keep the two characters apart, e.g. having them employ tortuous logic to justify shifting from frantically trying to meet each other to avoiding it.
By the last fifty pages, I was fidgety and uncomfortable with desperation to get to the predictable ending.
Thanks for the ray Deepswamp. Sorry I can’t give the book a more positive review. I hope later readers enjoy it more than I did.
Here's John Crace's digested read.
Unfortunately, there isn’t enough in the idea to fill a novel (either that or the author hasn’t got the talent to make it do so). So, for the second third, it descends into farce with the main characters getting into ridiculous situations (having a stolen waste-paper bin valued on a live episode of Antiques Roadshow for example). This caused me to lose patience and long for some character development or depth to the story.
To make matters worse, to produce the final third of the book, the story is padded out with irritating Mills & Boon-esque plot developments. Ahern contrives as many ways as possible to keep the two characters apart, e.g. having them employ tortuous logic to justify shifting from frantically trying to meet each other to avoiding it.
By the last fifty pages, I was fidgety and uncomfortable with desperation to get to the predictable ending.
Thanks for the ray Deepswamp. Sorry I can’t give the book a more positive review. I hope later readers enjoy it more than I did.
Here's John Crace's digested read.
Came in the post last night. It will have to wait a little while so I can finish some other rings up but I look forward to reading it.
Journal Entry 7 by teggers at -- Controlled Release, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- United Kingdom on Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (5/6/2009 UTC) at -- Controlled Release, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- United Kingdom
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Off to Babelfisk as Lottiotta asked to be skipped. I hope you enjoy the book.
Off to Babelfisk as Lottiotta asked to be skipped. I hope you enjoy the book.
It arrived yesterday and I'll read it as soon as I have the time (which may be a while).Thanks teggers
Hmm, I don't know. Sometimes fun, sometimes not so fun. And that "blood mysticism", or what I should call it, just makes me tired and irritated. Is this a way of saying that one shouldn't give blood because one loses a bit of ones soul?
Anyway, I enjoyed parts of it. You cant't love them all! And thanks for the opportunity to read one of her books, Deepswamp!
Now I'm sending it to Bokwormy.
Anyway, I enjoyed parts of it. You cant't love them all! And thanks for the opportunity to read one of her books, Deepswamp!
Now I'm sending it to Bokwormy.
Sorry for the delay everyone, I've been on holidays and got back to work this morning, thanks Babelfish for posting it over & thank-you Deepswamp for sharing it with me.
By the way gorgeous book cover & book mark =)
I'm just finishing a bookring and shall get started with this one asap.
By the way gorgeous book cover & book mark =)
I'm just finishing a bookring and shall get started with this one asap.
What a cute little read with plenty of imagination =)
PMing next person for address.
PMing next person for address.