Testimony - Anita Shreve

Strange Fits of Passion - Anita Shreve

Strange Fits of Passion is the first book I have read by Anita Shreve, even though she is an author who has been around for quite a long time. When I first started reading this book I wasn t sure that I liked the style and I didn t think I was going to enjoy it! How wrong could I be? It is a fabulous book with a very strong story which I found both riveting and absorbing! Thr story is written in quite an unusual way and I think this did give me problems at the start. It begins in what is the present day, although as the book was written in 1992, that is actually quite a while ago. It begins with an autor talking about how she writes her books, and I wasn t sure if this ...

Strange Fits of Passion - Anita Shreve

Strange Fits of Passion is the first book I have read by Anita Shreve, even though she is an author who has been around for quite a long time. When I first started reading this book I wasn t sure that I liked the style and I didn t think I was going to enjoy it! How wrong could I be? It is a fabulous book with a very strong story which I found both riveting and absorbing! Thr story is written in quite an unusual way and I think this did give me problems at the start. It begins in what is the present day, although as the book was written in 1992, that is actually quite a while ago. It begins with an autor talking about how she writes her books, and I wasn t sure if this ...

A Wedding in December - Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve Anita Shreve is a writer I first discovered with her book ‘The Pilot’s Wife’ – a scarily prescient novel about a plane crash in which there is a terrorist sub-plot. Reading her 2005 novel ‘A Wedding in December’, the first she wrote after the attacks of September 11th, it was strange to see her return to those events as a subtle circumstantial sub-topic of a much broader tale of private and public loss and grief. Shreve isn’t one of the writers for whom I’d rush out to the bookshop with my credit card burning a hole in my pocket out of sheer excitement to have a new book as soon as possible (I know it’s sad but there are some writers that DO get me that ...

A Wedding in December - Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve Anita Shreve is a writer I first discovered with her book ‘The Pilot’s Wife’ – a scarily prescient novel about a plane crash in which there is a terrorist sub-plot. Reading her 2005 novel ‘A Wedding in December’, the first she wrote after the attacks of September 11th, it was strange to see her return to those events as a subtle circumstantial sub-topic of a much broader tale of private and public loss and grief. Shreve isn’t one of the writers for whom I’d rush out to the bookshop with my credit card burning a hole in my pocket out of sheer excitement to have a new book as soon as possible (I know it’s sad but there are some writers that DO get me that ...

Fortune's Rocks - Anita Shreve

hands in glee at their well-timed 'buy two, get one free' offer. It was the cover of 'Fortune's Rocks' which caught my eye. I'd never read anything by Anita Shreve, or even had a recommendation. Having read the blurb on the back, I thought I'd give it a go. That was back in July. 'Fortune's Rocks' joined my ever-increasing tower of 'books to be read', until its turn came last month - and within two weeks it was completed. (That may not sound very fast to you, but with a 20 month old child and his whirling social life to contend with, there aren't many minutes left in the day for a good read, so two weeks is pretty ...

Fortune's Rocks - Anita Shreve

hands in glee at their well-timed 'buy two, get one free' offer. It was the cover of 'Fortune's Rocks' which caught my eye. I'd never read anything by Anita Shreve, or even had a recommendation. Having read the blurb on the back, I thought I'd give it a go. That was back in July. 'Fortune's Rocks' joined my ever-increasing tower of 'books to be read', until its turn came last month - and within two weeks it was completed. (That may not sound very fast to you, but with a 20 month old child and his whirling social life to contend with, there aren't many minutes left in the day for a good read, so two weeks is pretty ...