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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: Wounded
Author: Percival Everett
ISBN: 0571232442
EAN: 9780571232444
207 Pages
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 2007-02-15

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Training horses is dangerous - a head-to-head confrontation with 1000 pounds of muscle and little sense takes courage, but more importantly patience and brains. It is these same qualities that allow John and his uncle Gus to live in the beautiful high desert of Wyoming, where a black horse trainer is a novelty but certainly not unknown. But when a young gay man is murdered, the small community teeters over the brink of intolerance and John is forced to contend not only with horses but hate crimes, his homophobe father and, most frightening of all, a chance for love.

Training horses is dangerous - a head-to-head confrontation with 1,000 pounds of muscle takes courage. It is these same qualities that allow John and his uncle Gus to live in the beautiful high desert of Wyoming. A black horse-trainer is a curiosity, at the very least, but the brutal murder of a young gay man pushes this small community to the teetering edge of intolerance. Highly praised for his storytelling and ability to address the toughest issues of our time with humour, grace and originality, Everett offers a brilliant novel that explores the alarming consequences of hatred in a divided America.

2008-03-26 Not up to his usual standards

I've read about half of Everett's books and this is the first I'd give fewer than five stars.

His other books have covered more or less serious issues with more or less humour, but the humour, often dry, has always been there in the background to act as a counterpoint to the homily. However, this novel is big on homily and scant on humour, causing the rendition of a serious message to lack punch - and also making this a less enjoyable read than his other works.

Allied to grammatical errors at the printers - mispunctuated speech (in my hardback copy) does make it hard to work out who's speaking - this ends up reading like the discovery draft of something brilliant.

I don't want to knock Mr Everett - he remains my favourite living author - but I think he dropped his standards with this book.