The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
“Everybody has a story. It’s like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can’t say you haven’t got them. Same goes for stories. So,” she concluded, “everybody has a story. When are you going to tell me yours?’
It’s been a while since I have read a really good book. The kind you get lost in. The Thirteenth Tale was exactly that type of book for me.
World renowned author, Vida Winter, has been telling tales for six decades. All of which have brought her much fame and fortune. However, none are as sought after as the missing thirteenth tale. For years reporters and would be biographers have hounded Ms. Winter for this mysterious story or for the story of her life, but all have walked away empty handed. It isn’t until she is old and frail that Ms. Winter seeks out the daughter of a bookshop owner, Margaret Lea, to tell her story to; the real story.
The Thirteenth Tale is a perfect book to curl up on the couch with on a rainy weekend, enjoy a cup of tea and get swept up in an old fashioned tale that will have you guessing until the end.
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes — characters even — caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.
The Whacky Crap You Can Find on the Internets
Due to some unfortunate circumstances, I have been finding myself with an over abundant amount of down time on my hands. This down time, coupled with quite a speedy DSL connection has led me to surf the Internets more than usual. My normal web use generally consists of the mundane; e-mail, news, a forum post or two, Twitter and the rare Facebook visit. Now I find myself clicking on random links just to waste some time to try to overcome my boredom. One great site for random link clicking is Digg.
A couple of nights ago I ran into the following headline that was in the ‘Top in 24 Hours’ list: Best First Page of Any Book Ever? [PIC] With over 4,000 diggs I got curious.
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Heart Shaped Box ~ Joe Hill
Joe Hill (aka Joe King), the son of my favorite author, Stephen King, has written a very good ghost story. If I sound a bit shocked it’s because I was. I’ll admit to being somewhat jaded before I even began the book. How much would this book read like an attempt to copy Stephen King? It was similar in the fact that the genre is the same. And I’m sure that he has been influenced by his father’s writing and there’s nothing wrong with that. The story was well written, fast-paced and not completely predictable. Would I have read it had I not known that Joe was King’s son? Unless I read a review that caught my attention, probably not. But now that I know of him, I will be picking up a copy of his next book.
From Dead to Worse ~ Charlaine Harris
From Dead to Worse is number eight in the Sookie Stackhouse vampire series. Basically, it’s the same theme as the other seven; vampires, werewolves, shape shifters, oh my. One complaint that I have in regards to this book is that there wasn’t enough of Eric. Yep, I hate to have to admit to it, but Eric has definitely caught my attention. Book number nine is due out May 5th in hardcover. I already have it on hold at the local library.
The HBO series is rumored to be starting up again in June. It will be fun to see what direction the show takes after reading the books.
The Empty Chair ~ Jeffrey Deaver
This title is another Lincoln Rhyme novel. I have to say that I was a bit disappointed with this one. The Empty Chair was simply not a very thrilling thriller. Especially after reading The Bone Collector and The Coffin Dancer. However, I think Jeffrey Deaver is a great author and I enjoy reading his books. This one just happened to fall flat for me. The pace never picked up to reach page-turning craziness. Instead the story line plodded along with characters who were as uninteresting as the plot. The few twists and turns that were thrown in were predictable. Deaver created a wonderful character in Lincoln Rhyme. A brilliant criminologist confined to a wheelchair due to an accident that turned him into a quadriplegic. Hopefully, The Empty Chair was a fluke. I look forward to picking up the next Lincoln Rhyme novel.
2010 F1 Schedule
Date Location Mar. 14 
Sakhir - Bahrain Mar. 28 
Melbourne - Australia Apr. 04 
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia Apr. 18 
Shanghai - China May 09 
Barcelona - Spain May 16 
Monaco May 30 
Istanbul - Turkey Jun. 13 
Montreal - Canada Jun. 27 Valencia - Spain Jul. 11 
Silverstone - Great Britain Jul. 25 
Hockenheim - Germany Aug. 01 
Budapest - Hungary Aug. 29 
Spa-Francorchamps - Belgium Sep. 12 
Monza - Italy Sep. 26 
Singapore Oct. 10 
Suzuka - Japan Oct. 24 
South Korea Nov. 07 
Sao Paulo - Brazil Nov. 14 
Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates -
