Searching for that rush...

Sheila O'Flanagan is an Irish novelist with a seemingly particular interest in feel good novels, which reflect everyday problems that include a vast audience. 'A Season To Remember' is your typical, quirky rom-com novel, it's a collection of short stories about how a few days at the Sugar Loaf Lodge can change your perspective on life and love.  I did like this book, it was cute, romantic and everything that a girl wants to hear but I wasn't completely grabbed by it. Every couple of pages or so I'd start thinking about how I should clean my room or now would be a good time for a cuppa... Perhaps my head just was not in it and maybe there was just too much going on around me, (parents decided it was a good time to 'chat' to by brother about his well, pretty crappy results) but this book just seemed too predictable and that made it, well boring.  However, the interlinking of each characters individual stories and their connection to the county hotel ...

Dear fellow bloggers,                                I'm a huge fan of reading and always have a book stuck under my nose, so I've decided to start a blog about the books that I've read and hope to read. Might as well attempt to write about something I love, well here goes. :)    I've just finished reading 'The Brightest Star in the Sky' by Marian Keyes. The first pages of the novel are absolutely gripping, we're first introduced to the strange new presence that's arrived on 66 Star Street. At the beginning the reader feels a bit wary of this 'thing' that interjecting itself onto the street, what is it? An angel, a ghost here to stir up trouble or even Death? The development of the plot is so engaging that I couldn't put the book down, so much so that it was my constant 'tea, lunch, dinner and just need a minute to myself break ' companion throughout the day. As the story unfolds, we see ...