So often with Moyes’s books that follow two timelines (or any author’s, really), I find myself really enjoying one timeline, and resenting the other for getting in the way. So I give the Bohemians 4 stars, and soppy Daisy 2 stars, to average out to a solid 3 star book. “I simply believe that sometimes the fates have a future for us that we cannot imagine. And to enable them we just have to keep believing that good things will happen.” In the 1950s, a […]
One out of every 10 book I read this year was by JoJo Moyes
I read eight books by Jojo Moyes this year. That’s a tenth of my reviews. Windfallen was Moyes second novel; however, like many of her early novels it was not released in the United States until a few years ago. I prefer the UK title of Foreign Fruit. I think I’m partial to her later work because they’re a little less formulaic, or maybe because I came across her recent novels first. Windfallen, like most of Moyes novels (particularly her early work), begins in the […]
I liked the bits with the horses
Sheltering Rain begins in the 1950s in Hong Kong, when Joy meets her future husband, Edward, during the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. They eventually marry and produce two children — Christopher and Kate. In the late 1990s, Joy and Edward live in a falling-down estate in Ireland. Kate — now in her mid-thirties and splitting with her live-in boyfriend — sends her sixteen year old daughter, Sabine, from London to Ireland to spend time with her grandmother and ailing grandfather, despite the fact that Kate […]
More Moyes
So tomorrow is Thanksgiving but instead of getting a head-start on making pumpkin pie or peeling potatoes I opted to finish Jojo Moyes’ debut novel. In my defense, badkittyuno asked to borrow my copy before I returned it to the library and my mother’s house is the best place for a dead drop. Sheltering Rain, like Silver Bay, was a bit slow moving but once the plot was established the pace picked up and became another enjoyable read from Moyes. Hence the current lack of […]
Quadruple Cannonball! And some chicks on a boat.
My goal this year was a triple cannonball. I seemed to have exceeded that. “He was met by a collective shriek as the brides parted like biblical waves around him.” A few others have reviewed The Ship of Brides here, but in case you’ve missed it, here’s a plot summary. At the end of World War II, hundreds of women in Australia had married British servicemen and then ended up separated from them during the course of the war. In 1946, these women took airplanes and […]
“You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.”
Jojo writes in the introduction to this one that she never really intended to write a sequel to Me Before You, but the fans demanded one so here it is. I’m not sure that Me Before You really needed a sequel, but I’m glad she provided one — even if it’s not quite as good as the first (when are they ever, really?). “You know what makes me feel down? The way you keep promising to live some kind of a life, then sacrifice yourself to every […]
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