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Alina B

Alina B

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I like a good book and I try to find some time every other day to read. In my opinion, it is the perfect past-time!
I have some favourite authors (as you will see in my Favourites section, one of them is Salman Rushdie but then there are also Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Henry James) and I have a few least favourite ones (e.g. Coelho).... more »
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  • Lacy
    • Rated 2 stars

    It's usually ok to have more than one love story, but 3 is ridiculous. This would have been great for a mini-series of the Whitehall brothers, instead they are all mingled together to a less than satisfying result.

    Alina B wrote this review Saturday, September 24, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Marriage on the Rebound
    • Rated 4 stars

    One of the nicest romances I've read by Michelle Reid. It reminds me why I started to like these books in the first place.
    Rafe is such a strong hero but without the macho stuff that seems to suffocate the orther books. He's not deliberately cruel or crass, and is aware that Shaan needs him in all that mess.
    All in all, very very good book.

    Alina B wrote this review Thursday, October 28, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Tremors
    • Rated 5 stars

    It's nice to see a relationship AFTER marriage vows are exchanged. Joe and Lisa really work at it, trying their hardest even when it seems hopeless.
    Very good read, my second from Webb so I guess it won't be the last!

    Alina B wrote this review Wednesday, July 7, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Bought for the Sicilian Billionaire's Bed
    • Rated 2 stars

    Throughout the book, Salvatore has such bouts of misoginism that are simply frightening. His constant excsue is what? That he's Sicilian?? His cynical outlook shadows every single moment he has with Jessica, and so in just a minute he suddenly discovers he loves her??? How unlikely is that? Not to mention that Jessica, altough saved by some moments of feistiness, is sometimes so over-the-top doormat that it made me want to throw the book away. (see the scene about virgin brides, the scene about buying her with clothes and jewelery etc etc)

    Alina B wrote this review Saturday, May 29, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Duncan's Bride
    • Rated 5 stars

    A very good portrayal of a fight for a common-life. It's about life AFTER marriage, and the two of them manage it quite beautifully.

    Alina B wrote this review Monday, May 3, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Oryx and Crake
    • Rated 4 stars

    Not memorable in the way the Blind Assassin was, or The Handmaid's Tale was but still a classic Atwwod and really good read.
    As far as I'm concerned, the main themes that were worth following were:
    1. corporations/power
    2. names/the power of the language
    3. narration
    4. the journey - here not even a self-discovery one, except for us to learn the sequence of events that led to the appearance of the Crakers.
    In was also interesting to see that Atwwod does not lose power with a male protagonist/narrator and the story was just as enthralling. I just got used to multiple layers and a little more suspense as was the case in the other two novels.
    Still, following the Snowman around was well worth it, dirty bedsheet and all.

    Alina B wrote this review Monday, April 12, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Trusting Game
    • Rated 2 stars

    A self-help guru falls in love with a reluctant student. Daniel could use a little lesson in humility, as for Christa - well, she easily falls into the TSTL category. I mean her trust issues spring from the fact that her BEST FRIEND had a lousy marriage?? Please!

    Alina B wrote this review Sunday, February 14, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Honeymoon with a Stranger
    • Rated 2 stars

    Pretty unbelievable if you ask me but the story develops nicely and that is why it gets 3. So, Christina goes on a honeymoon before the wedding just because he thinks it is such a romantic idea!!!! There she gets stone drunk on Mai Tais and someone leads her to the wrong room. She gets in bed even if she somehow gets that something is different about the man in the bed since he is not snoring. They end up having the best sex of their lives and more than once that night.
    Morning comes when they must face the truth and Robert finally finds out she is not really married, at least not yet!!! He believes in destiny so much that he takes it as a sign that they must be together. But Ch. is appalled by the whole thing and leaves.
    Back to their home town, Robert looks her up and he hopes to hit it off again since Chris can’t really deny what they have together. Only this time she tells him the shocking news: she was pregnant with him from the other Hawaiian night they had spent together just before she got spooked and left.
    Now they get together again but her fiancé gets unexpectedly back and finds them together in her apartment in skimpy clothes. He gets the whole thing, Christina explains the others and she finally accepts she was in love with Robert.
    One year later, Robert and Christina are back in Hawaii on the beach with their son in the room and Robert just persuades Chris it would be nice for little Jordan to have a sibling to play with.

    Alina B wrote this review Wednesday, February 10, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Beyond Eden
    • Rated 4 stars

    One of the great things about this book is the fact that Coulter had the courage to take the cliche of the Latin lover, dark, brooding, sensual, and bring it to its knees in the character of Prince Alessandro di Contini, Lindsay's nemesis.
    Another was the fact that Freudian theory DOES NOT explain everything and a deep trauma like Lindsay's rape has to be figuered in time and with the help of a wonderful companion like Taylor is. It was quite refreshing to see a relationship like this one, real people with real emotions, kind and compassionate.

    Alina B wrote this review Saturday, February 6, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Selected Essays
    • Rated 3 stars

    Maybe if I had had a paper to write, it would have been more interesting. Such as it was, it was just informative. Some of the essays were quite interesting, some I found really useless - autobiograohy for example.
    Still, it was really nice to hear Virginia Woolf's voice here so similar to that of the novels.

    Alina B wrote this review Wednesday, January 27, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
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