A surprise package

Photo from Amazon

I found a parcel from Amazon.co.uk in my postbox this week. It was so exciting, I spend far too much time lusting after pretty things on Amazon.co.uk. I couldn't remeber ordering anything (I'm usually quite good and only order gifts for me when I'm ordering someone elses Birthday present) but when I opened the wrapper I found Diane Mott Davidson's Catering to Nobody.

I heard about Diane Mott Davidson on Erin Cooks she reviewed her newest book Fatally Flaky It sounded like a wonderful series and I added the first book Catering to Nobody to my wishlist.

After a lot of pondering and discusions with my Sister in the UK I discovered it was my Mum who had bought me a book from my wishlist. Thanks Mum It was such a lovely surprise!! I can't wait to read it, I've just got to finish my current book on China.

Ohhh I forgot. Our China Visas came through Yesterday, we fly out in 3 weeks and almost have organised everything, Flights Visas Vaccines. Now all we need is not to get Quaranined in Hong Kong or we miss the eclipse

Love In The Time of Cholera

I've just finished Love in the Time of Cholera and wonder why I persist with books I don't like?

This is the second book this year that has made me feel so uncomfortabke that I've had to put it down and do something else when I get to really nasty bits. (the first was the Kite Runner)They were both Bookcrossing Bookrings, which might be why I struggled on but relly I have to learn to just give up and put it down.

Love in the time of Cholera is set in the Carribien, Although It doesn't mention this for the first 50 pages or so and perhaps I took an instant dislike to the book because it didn't lay the scene. At firt I thought it was set in Paris then maybe Spain then maybe south America, finally it mentions in passing the country.

It's a story of two young lovers Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza, who have a brief but passionate courtship, Fermina Daza breaks it off and moves on with her life to marry Dr Juvenal Urbino, but Florentino is lost to his first love, he has a serries of affairs while he waits for Dr Juvenal Urbino to Die so he can woo Fermina again in old age.

It is a well written book, but not only is it slow going but it also seems rushed like the Author doesn't have time to finish off minor characters or tie up loose ends.

Simply I can say this is not the book for me.

Kite runner

I finally finished the kite runner it's a bookcrossing bookray I've been reading since October. I'm unsure about it. I found the discriptions very vivid and at times very uncomfortable. there were a few points when I had to put the book down and do nice things as it was making me feel quite depressed. But on the other hand it sucked me in and made me have these emotions for the characters, which has got to be good writing.
Today I have started The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling which my sister sent me for Christmas. I'm guessing it'll be a bit lighter!