Books
Love
Stories
Sam's
Letters to Jennifer
James Patterson
Warner Books, Incorporated; April 2005
Jennifer,
a newspaper columnist who's grieving the death of her husband,
has more reason to mourn when her beloved grandmother, Sam,
falls into a coma. Jennifer rushes to Sam's home in Lake Geneva,
Wis., where she finds a packet of letters addressed to her.
The letters detail her grandmother's life story, including
an affair she had with a mysterious man. Jennifer takes comfort
in the letters, and at the same time, embarks on her own romance
with Brendan, an old friend. Heche's thin, mousy voice is
perfect for the perpetually worried Jennifer, but she rarely
varies her intonation, not even for Brendan's dialogue.
Love
Toni Morrison
Vintage Books; January 2005
Like
all of Morrison's best fiction, this is a village novel. Race
and racism, ancillary concerns in Love for the most part,
throw the small groups she writes about back upon one another,
steeping their passions. Even when the setting is contemporary,
Morrison's books feel old-fashioned, set in a world where
the perpetual distraction of the media hasn't diluted people's
fascination with their neighbors, where the misadventures
of J.Lo and P. Diddy don't siphon off attention from the scandal
next door. Morrison is, as always, interested in the face-off
between the respectable and the not, between the clean, orderly,
responsible citizens of Silk, the town where the Cosey women
live, and the unchaste, shoeless ne'er-do-wells of neighborhoods
like the Settlement and Up Beach, where one of the Cosey women
started out.
Black
Rose
Nora Roberts
Penguin Group (USA); May 2005
Roz is
a woman of independent means who thinks love is all in the
past-but she's about to be taken by surprise. Number-one bestselling
author Nora Roberts presents the second novel of her In the
Garden trilogy, as three women discover the secrets from the
past contained within their historic home.
(Source:
ETC, Gulshan 1, )
Compiled
by: Sanyat Sattar
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