Advantages: Easy to read - some very funny dialogue Disadvantages: The ending is a little cliched.
The Seven YearItch - Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees
I don't often get chance to read that many books - even chick lit - but a friend of mine gave me this book to read on holiday, when you have time to relax and read something easy and not too serious.
What's it all about?
I feel like I have come to the party late with this book, as it seems there are many more books that have been written by this duo (who are partners in life also) about the same characters to boot. So the first thing I will say is that I easily got into this book, without knowing anything about what had happened previously.
Amy and Jack are a couple with a small child, and have slipped onto the domestic merry go round, bogged down by routine and wondering if anything exiting will ever happen to them again. Jack has given up his career as an artist to ...
Advantages: realistic amusing, unpredicatable Disadvantages: wanted more
If you have ever been married or had children then there are aspects of this story that you will identify with. I spent a lot of time smiling while reading this book and even giggling the reason yes it was funny, but mainly because I had had that converstaion, made that comment or just thought that thought.
Jack and Amy have been together for seven years and have a two year old son. I feel that the story builds a wonderful picture of the relationship between both parents with their child and how that relationship differs from parent to parent. and Amy feels somewhat isolated after she leaves her job to care for her son Ben. So desperate for company that she clings to a group of women that she trys to live up to and in her eyes falls short.
Jack has been forced to grow up and drop his ambitions to support his wife and family and has ...
Advantages: A Strange and wonderful book Disadvantages: some distressing scenes
infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip."
The book is narrated by Matilda, a thirteen year old girl, who was deserted by her father four years previously when he left to work in Townsville, Australia. Matilda is a clever girl who is beginning to question everything she has been taught by her religious mother about morality.
Mister Pip highlights the escapist pleasures that reading brings to us all. The students are captivated by Mister Dickens world as it distracts them from their troubles. Mr Watts makes the story relevant to the natives, but not all are accepting of the novel; Matilda's mother is opposed to untrue stories, and has even more of a problem with the "godless" Mr Watts when she hears that he considers the devil symbolic.
Matilda develops a relationship with Pip as she discovers ...
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