This book is not at all like most of the books I read, but I enjoyed it after I got used to the two stories. Since I have little knowledge about Brahms and the Schumanns, I found their lives and relationships very interesting. Through much of the book, I found it hard to understand or like the ...
I now know why Oprah gave away cars and other amazing gifts to the guest of her show. It was to combat the depression that the members of her book club had encountered over the years. If you see the Oprah’s Book Club logo on a book you are about to crack open, take your Zoloft now.Now, hear me ...
My first venture into this authors work, picked up on impulse from a local book shop. The story follows Meg and her husband Rex, in the aftermath of the untimely death of their only son, six year old Evan. Stuck in a small town, the couple decide to buy a boat and sail the world, island hopping, ...
Another deep and engrossing read from A. Manette Ansay.What a real privilege to again read another excellent work by author A. Manette Ansay. I was first introduced to her writing with Vinegar Hill, whose extremely, vivid and realistic characters were so shocking and emotionally wounded one can n...
Limbo is a story about a young woman who was stricken with a mysterious muscular disease at the age of 19. Before she became ill, she was an aspiring concert pianist. Piano was her life. By the age of 22, she couldn't even grip a pencil or walk across a room. She had to give up on her dreams and ...
Okay, I understand that I'm three for three when it comes to Ansay's novels, and reviewing them as Among the Best Books Ever, but really. I actually shelved three other books that are due before this one out of an intense need to read every Ansay novel possible. This one was marginally harder to ...