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Rachel Reviews: Sour Apples: A Novel For Those Who Hate to Read by Paul Jantzen
Sour Apples was a really enjoyable read, a real American boys' tale of summer. Our hero is Jimmy Hamilton, a lively boy who starts off the book with a tree fort but as his mother's fears about the relative safety of such a structure grow (and justifiably so), it looks like the fort's days are numbered, much to Jimmy's irritation.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in BookClub
Time for Answers. Top Story - November 2024.
The knock on the head that Dave had sustained when his wife hit him with a rock had not only injured him but disoriented him. He didn't remember that it was his wife who had assaulted him. He had no idea where he was or what was going on. He knew there were two women and he knew that he was outdoors. He knew that he was tied up and he knew that he was in trouble.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Fiction
Tied
Dave's head felt like a tribal dance was taking place inside it. He let out a groan as consciousness returned to him and his limbs remembered that they could move. His face felt like it contained lots of tiny splinters and his shoulders felt unnaturally high. He tried to move them forward to lift himself from where he was lying and found that he couldn't.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Fiction
What to believe?
"I don't know what to believe," Christine finished. "The only things that I can't reconcile to what I thought I knew of my husband are the camera and the vision of him with his hands around your throat. I'll never, never, be able to erase that. Never."
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Fiction
Flitter-mouse
My word: Flitter-mouse Flitter-mouse is a Tudor period word for bat I like this better than bat, maybe because it's more literal in its descriptiveness as bats do look a little like flying mice; although if you see one up close, you realise that they're not really like mice at all. It made me wonder where the word "bat" came from if "flitter-mouse" is what they called them in Tudor times.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Fiction
Belief
Christine added, "You said he was scared? What do you mean, scared?" Bethan felt like she was all at sea without a lifebelt. How to navigate this? She was going to have to rely on her own brief judgement of Christine and what she knew of Katie. Christine seemed rational but she'd also just hit her husband over the head with a rock. These truly were uncharted waters and Bethan wished she could scramble to safety as there was no chance of anyone else rescuing her from this.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in Fiction
Rachel Reviews: Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls by R.S. Downie (Medicus Book I)
Note: This book is published in the U.S. under the title Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire by Ruth Downie * A new Roman mystery to me, and a very enjoyable one at that. To give context, Trajan has just passed away and Hadrian is next in line. Set in Deva, which is modern day Chester here in Britain, Ruso is a medic who administers treatments to the legion with which he is stationed. So, his dealings are mainly with soldiers but he also has private customers and encounters people from all walks of life including the natives, some of them recalcitrant and grudge-bearing and others, more accepting of their conquerors and the changes in life that they bring.
By Rachel Deemingabout a year ago in BookClub
