Hello folks
It’s very nearly Advent and I am happy to link hands with many of my author friends in a special bookshop for this festive season!
There are lots of festive treats
to buy,
and to browse.
Why don’t you click on the link above and check it out?
YES, THERE ARE PRIZES AND GAMES TOO!
Do take a look. I’m working though reading works by the authors included in the ‘shop’ because, as you know’, I really like to promote books I’ve read and enjoyed.
Filed under Book reading, Book reviews, Book Shops, Events, Marketing your novel
Are you short of money before Christmas but still want to lose yourself in a novel that’s “captivating and compelling”?“A well-crafted and satisfying novel, dealing with some heavy topics such as abandonment, betrayal and mental health issues. The author threads together two stories, one in present day and one in the past, and flows from one to the other seamlessly. I loved the use of the dice (a chance find) to introduce her memories, rating the lows as ones and twos and the highs as fives and sixes. Diana writes so well, this feels more like a record of real events. Definite thumbs up and one of my rare 5 stars.” Jules5691
Hey, I’m nearly still in October! There’s a surprise. I’ve noticed themes running through many books I choose to review:
This is a YA book and I was scrolling through books on Amazon because I was wondering what my potential audience for Search for The Pearl Inside Yourself might read. I was drawn to the blurb; the idea that an English girl would suddenly be faced with a German lady telling her she was her real mother.
Lena Levi tells her story. It is heartbreaking as she struggles with what she had, all fourteen years of her life so far, believed to be her identity. She needed proof and she needed to discover the truth for herself which took her to Germany and then on to a Kibbutz in Israel. Was she Marlene or was she really Lena? Once she had got over the initial shock and denial, it is her determination, strength of character and tenacity which drew me to her quest; however shocking and soul destroying it was at times.
Yes, and it is a more obscure one. It destroyed my paradise image of life in a Kibbutz and laid the concept bare in that they almost certainly attract folks with all the positive and negative characteristics that you also find in the ‘real world’ outside. A microcosm of life rather than an escape.
And so I no longer have a yearning to try living in a Kibbutz, which maybe a trifle unfair, but the book made me grow up a bit and be more realistic. As for Lena Levi, well, you will have to read this absorbing tale for yourself.
Filed under Book reading, Book reviews
MISSING Past and Present
Diana Jackson 