Monday, September 21, 2015

"Adam and Eve and Pinch Me" by Ruth Rendell

This book was a real slog for me and I seriously almost gave up on it. It was boring because it delved in intricate detail into the mind of an OCD schizophrenic. She was simple and her one time boyfriend was a serial womanizer and conman/thief who sent her a fake notice that he had died in a train crash. I suppose characters like the beautiful moronic wife of the serial womanizer, who bigamously married a gay MP so he could keep up a lie were ironically amusing.  Oh, and yes, the OCD schizophrenic was the murderer... She thought she was getting rid of the ghosts who were haunting her.

Monday, September 7, 2015

"The Hundred Foot Journey" by Richard C. Morais

Read this book because I wanted something light and I had enjoyed the movie. It was quite different from the movie so it was a fresh, pleasant experience. It did drag in parts because I could care less about all the food descriptions, of which I think there were too many. The movie was a much tighter story than the book, but it had more ugly bits. One strong thought I had while reading was that many people in the French town saw the father as just a comical and fat Indian. Little did they know of the tragedy behind him, and of his determination.