RAINY DAZE REVIEWS
I like reading crime novels but also historical fiction and books set in exotic locations. If you combine all three, you are on to a winner.
My Reading Challenges
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Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her most famous book was Rebecca which was published in 1938 and has never gone out of print
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LM Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author best known for the Anne of Green Gables series set on Prince Edward Island. The Anne books are still considered children’s classics today.
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John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck was an American author best know for his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Grapes of Wrath which has sold more than 14 million copies worldwide.
Adapted
When your favourite book hits the screen
Hearing your favourite book is being adapted for the large or small screen can be an anxious time. Will it be a triumph or a disaster?
Books have always been a fertile ground for film makers but nothing can compare with a reader’s imagination which makes casting and interpretation a dicey business.
Readers can be your worst or best critic and it takes a lot to please us.
Inspired
When characters come back to life
All readers have characters they have fallen in love with and dream about what life was like for them after the last page or even before the first page.
Some authors have answered those questions and presented readers with sequels, prequels or even spin-offs. And its not just the characters who are getting the re-imagining treatment as some of your favourite authors are getting it too!
LatestReview
The City of Tears by Kate Mosse
THE CITY OF TEARS KATE MOSSE June 1572. For ten, violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Neighbours have become enemies, countless lives have been lost, the country has been torn apart over matters of religion, citizenship and sovereignty. But now a precarious peace is in the balance: a royal wedding has been negotiated by Catherine de’ Medici and Jeanne d’Albret, an alliance between the Catholic Crown and Henri, the Huguenot king of Navarre. It is a marriage that could see France reunited at last. Meanwhile in Puivert, an invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her…
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