Author: Lisa Jewell
When she was nine years old, Melody Browne’s father saved her from a fire that destroyed her home. When she recovered she had no memory of her life before the fire. In her early thirties, after attending a hypnotist’s show on her first date in eight years, she begins to recover snippets of memory. As she tracks down the truth behind these memories she learns of the tragic circumstances of her childhood.
Goodreads Rating: * * * *
Friday, August 2, 2019
I’ve been on Texada a week and I’ve not missed home at all.
Last weekend was the Blues and Roots festival. The weather was good, I had a free pass onto the site and my job was quite simple. I was there to promote the next season of Home Routes concerts and another show Pat has booked for October. Sales were slow but I spoke to several people about the events.
The first few days of the week were spent between some quilting, some cross stitch and some baseball. Will was playing in the national tournament for 14 and under boys; some of the games were broadcast over the internet and I watched as many of them as possible. I was quite quiet in my cheering the first game but after Pat left to go back to Powell River for a couple of days my cheering got much louder. Maybe I just wanted to hear someone’s voice but I was actually very much “into” each and every game.
While Pat was away I dug out The Princess and spent a couple of days stitching. Since then I’ve been working in my workshop; I have a miniature quilt finished and I’m just finishing up the quilting on a larger quilt. I have several more ready to sandwich and quilt so I won’t run out of things to do.
I expected I would have more done than I have, but I’m not pushing myself too much. With my first cup of coffee in the morning I check my email and play my games (for the first several days I missed my iPad because I had forgotten it at home), with my second cup I do a little knitting. Then, and only then, do I get busy quilting. I don’t have a bathroom in the workshop so I’m up and down the hill a few times during the day.
In the evenings I’m either reading or knitting or sometimes working on an embroidered tablecloth.
Sandcastle Weekend starts tomorrow; I’m volunteering for a 2-hour shift on Sunday. Except for a day trip back to Powell River next week I’ll be staying put for at least another week.
Author: Louise Penny
This is the third book in the Inspector Gamache series; I’ll have to try and find the second book somewhere.
I loved that the murder to be solved took place in Three Pines, but I’m a little concerned that for a small village and with the number of murders and murderers there won’t be many left in town. Most of the characters from the first book are back.
I didn’t enjoy this one quite as much as the other books in the series. In this book there was a murder to solve but there were also some shady deals going in the police force and Gamache was in the middle of it all. I felt a bit like I was missing too much of the back story on the police misconduct to really understand what was going.
Goodreads Rating: * * * *
Author: Kate Horsley
An American exchange student living in France stumbles out of a forest and she has no idea who she is or what happened to her. Adding to the mystery is the fact that her host family have disappeared. An aggressive reporter poses as her aunt and the two of them try to solve the mystery.
I started the book about the same time as I started proofreading a manuscript and it didn’t have my full attention to say the least. When I finally had the time to dedicate to the book I had pretty much lost interest.
The story is told from the point of view of both the “aunt” and the girl. The girl’s story is told by using past excerpts from her blog and the current state of her mind.
Goodreads Rating: * * *