Booknerds are pretty too: April 2009

Romeo and Juliet Review:

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Tragic tale of star-crossed lovers, feuding families and timeless passion contains some of Shakespeare's most beautiful and lyrical love poetry.Ideal for classroom use, it is a wonderful addition to the home library of anyone wanting to savor one of literature's most sublime paeans to young love.

This was my first Shakespeare and it certainly won't be my last. Romeo and Juliet is a beautiful story, and it is a marvellous play to introduce young people to the beauty of Shakespeare. Who doesn't like to read about star-crossed lovers?

★★★★★

New Moon Review:

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer.

Twilight Saga, Book #2

Legions of readers entranced by Twilight are hungry for more and they won't be disappointed. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. The "star-crossed" lovers theme continues as Bella and Edward find themselves facing new obstacles, including a devastating separation, the mysterious appearance of dangerous wolves, roaming the forest in Forks, a terrifying threat of revenge from a female vampire and a deliciously sinister encounter with Italy's reigning royal family of vampires, the Volturi. Passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality.

Another book I did not want to put down...It had a great balance of the many different feelings of main character was having at the time and the author did a marvelous job of portraying those feelings to the reader.

This book will keep you both at the edge of your seat and near tears, as well as laughing and wanting more.

Read in April 2007

★★★★★

Eleven Minutes Review:

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho

Eleven Minutes tells the story of young Maria living an innocent life in a Brazilian village and is played out in a measured fashion, but with all the author's brilliant scene-setting (very lush here) fully in place. But then Maria experiences love and suffers great pain. From this point, Coelho has us inexorably in his grip. Maria's disillusionment with love leads her to Geneva where she finally ends up selling her body (Coelho may offer us the beauty of life, but never at the expense of its harshness). Maria's approach to sex is complex--this is no mere revulsion arising from what she is now doing with her life. And then she meets a seductive young painter, who may or may not offer her a new path in life. But does she prefer to continue on the dark sexual odyssey she has embarked on, at the expense of real love?

This novel caught my attention because the novel begins like a fairy tale - "Once upon a time, there was a prostitute named Maria" the story is written with a highly impressive start ,well Maria leaves her home to seek fame and fortune and ends up on the streets. This book talk about how we confuse sex & love.It is sure worth a read.

Read in April 2008

★★★★