Dating Game 2

This novel has greatly moved me.Do comment on it and do let me know of your suggestions on how to deal with the eternal questions we,women,ask ourselves.

The Dating Game Danielle Steel

Paris Armstrong is very happy,as a woman and as a mother.She never expected her life to change drastically when her husband of 25years told her they needed to talk.He breaks the news to her:he wants a divorce.He is leaving her for someone younger,a younger version of her.Totally shocked,Paris has to pick up the pieces and continue to survive.She plunges back to the cruel and cutthroat world of dating and has to find a job.

The beginning of this novel is actually the nightmare of all women.What if he leaves me for someone younger than me?What if he no longer loves me?What if he is no longer happy with me?From the moment we commit ourselves to someone,we tend to think of all these scenarios,I know I do.How can we,women,cure ourselves of this illness?I humbly concede that I do not have the cure to this illness but still humbly I will propose the following suggestion.Learn to let go.Is it better to be with a man who does not love you than to be lonely??

On the positive side,we can see that in this novel Paris finally achieves lots of things:a fulfilling job,a faithful group of friends and a loving family.So if you have just been dumped by a totally ungrateful man,do not worry.Life is what you make it!!Just learn to let go and go with the flow.Try to be happy and survival is more important at this time.Be with people who matter to you and do not run after shadows or illusions.....

I'm back (2009)

Hello to all my reviewers,
I'm back in action.Recently,due to the rainy season or due to my loneliness,I feel the need to read romantic novels.The recent one I have read deals with loving and losing.This is a universal theme:who among us can claim to never having lost someone they love??We lose some of our loved ones due to their own shortcomings(incompatibility,treachery,cheating,lies,suspicions,impatience) and some leave us by a trick of fate.Death does not spare anyone.We have all lost our loved ones to the Angel of Death.
Back to my book review:the book is called ' The Way To Yesterday' by Sharon Sala.Mary Ellen O'Rouke has lost her husband,Daniel and her baby,Hope, six years ago.She has yet to get over their death.But with the help of a magic ring,she is able to go back in time and save her husband and kid.But she will have to face new challenges:like keeping her loved ones alive.

This novel has deeply touched as it made me realise that we should cherish our loved ones like there's no tomorrow.Losing someone we love is something too horrible.Some move on and become stronger but others just can not let go.I belong to the latter category.Moving on after one has lost his dear one is very hard and is the proof of a strong character and of the will to survive.

Who among us has never wanted to go back in time to save a person or a relationship??Lord knows that I have.To be able to stop oneself from uttering that decisive phrase.Or to be able to be with someone on his deathbed and to be able to make everything ok again.I still have not gotten over Sirius Black's death in The Order Of The Phoenix nor Prue's untimely death in Charmed.Who would not want to be in the shoes of Ned,the pie maker in Pushing Daisies?Being able to bring life back to a dead person is a goal which humanity has yet to attain.....

new post coming up!!

hi to all reviewers!!
After this sabbatical month,I'm back in action and I have a new post coming up!So keep logging in.

Accident by Danielle Steel

This novel tells the story of Page Clarke,whose life is shattered the night her daughter,Allyson,has an accident and lands in coma.She learns of the infidelity of her husband.Her marriage is wrecked.But help and support will find her,in an unlikely way...

Danielle Steel writes in a very realistic way , portraying Page's confusion as well as her helplessness to help her daughter.She is trying to understand how she let her marriage go down the drain.Now this is something very common after the break-up of a relationship:you want to understand because you were not ready to be thrown out of it.here's the realism I mean to stress.These questions and emotions are felt by all those who have loved and been left midway by the other party.

Steel also shows the desperation and helplessness of a mother.Page is vulnerable but she has hope.She believes that her love and devotion will pay off and that her daughter will awake from her coma.This is a lesson to all of us:we should always hope for the better,even during dark hours...If you are an eternal optimist like me,do read this novel.And if you are not,read it just to know what it feels like to believe in good times...

Origin in Death - Nora Roberts writing as J D Robb

This novel starts with the murder of Dr Wilfred Icove Sr's death in his medical facility.Dr Icove is a reconstructive and cosmetic surgeon and the year is 2059.Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Detective Delia Peabody,as well as a team of high profile experts(including Roarke,Dallas's husband),try to unravel the mystery surrounding this death and others which follow subsequently.

Here is a novel which deals with the uses and abuses of cloning.Nora Roberts is imaginative and projects us in a future where everyone wants to be perfect:intellectually or physically.From hair extensions to A+ in applied physics,you name it,you can have it!With a nice price tag , of course!!

What impressed me the most in this novel is the main character:Eve Dallas.Unlike her namesake,this Eve is not very feminine.She swears,acts tough,dresses un-femininely,does not have any feminine reflexes,check this out:this chick literally has to be forced by her pals to go to a beautician.Despite all this,she lands herself Roarke,a to-die-for hunk who is rich as Cresus,sensitive,endearing and totally bowled over by her.I really hope that this guy is what the future has in store for us,nice chicks and dudes...

You Belong To Me by Mary H Clark

In this novel,Susan Chandler,a radio presenter and ex-prosecutor,deals with the disappearance of Regina Clausen on her show.A caller to the show claims to have been approached ,aboard a cruiser,by a man who gave her a ring with these words engraved on it.Soon new links appear which make the ring look like the prime element in solving this case.

This novel is by the queen of suspense thrillers herself,I give to you,Mary Higgins Clark.Ms Clark is one of my favorite writers.This is a lady who knows what she is writing:there's serious research behind each novel,a well-constructed plot,tangible emotions and very credible characters.

The main theme of this novel is loneliness:about how women who are,outwardly, to be successful encounter difficulties in relating to others romantically and about the man who preys on these women.Here Ms Clark is warning us,gullible chicks,to be wary of smooth talkers as we could pay for it by our lives...This is an A1 read ,people.Grab it if you can!!

Here are the lyrics which have influenced the killer in this novel:

You belong to me by J Wade

See the pyramids around the Nile
Watch the sun rise
From the tropic isle
Just remember darling
All the while
You belong to me
See the market place
In old Algiers
Send me photographs and souvenirs
Just remember
When a dream appears
You belong to me

And I'll be so alone without you
Maybe you'll be lonesome too

Fly the ocean
In a silver plane
See the jungle
When it's wet with rain
Just remember till
You're home again
You belong to me

Oh I'll be so alone without you
Maybe you'll be lonesome too

Fly the ocean
In a silver plane
See the jungle
When it's wet with rain
Just remember till
You're home again
You belong to me