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Thinking Of You - The Ultimate Escapist Read
Jill Mansell, unlike other writers in the rom-com arena, seems to get better with every book she writes. Thinking of You is her latest offering and proves that it is possible to get better with age!

Ginny Holland, a best selling author if left rattling around in her house on her own after daughter Jem goes to university. Lonely, she advertises her spare room for rent. Instead of a happy roommate, she gets moaning Laurel who is still hung up on her ex-boyfriend. If that wasn’t enough, Ginny finds herself lusting after two men who can only be bad for her. Will Ginny get the man of her dreams, or will he be the one that gets away?

Mansell has a disarming ability to create characters that you already know and that tends to make her books impossible to put down. This book is no different. It is charmingly written, hopelessly funny and will make you forget all of your own troubles as soon as you read the first page.

(ISBN: 0755328116, ISBN-13: 9780755328116)

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Title: Life and Times of Michael K
Author: J.M. Coetzee
ISBN: 009947915X
EAN: 9780099479154
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192 Pages
Publisher: Vintage
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 2004-09-02

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In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and Times of Michael K goes to the centre of human experience -- the need for an interior, spiritual life, for some connections to the world in which we live, and for purity of vision.

JM Coetzee's work includes Waiting For The Barbarians; Life and Times of Michael K; Boyhood: Scenes From Provincial Life; Youth; and Disgrace which won the Booker Prize, making him the first author to have won it twice. In 2003 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

2008-06-22 A revelation

Coetzee's writing style is typically lean, uncovoluted, and simple. This particular story is not long. The tone is direct. Not many authors can write about simply living and life itself. What does it mean to be?
I admire everything Coetzee writes, and highly recommend this novel.