Our Winter Garden

During June 2018 I was enjoying our winter garden with lots of vegetables and things to look at and some happy birds. I enjoyed some good books and some books a little bit strange.

I spent a lot of time in our garden watching the birds who were very cheeky and trying to take food off us if we were eating outside. I only finished a few books in June The books I was reading in June were:

One Day In December: A Christmas Love Story by Josie Silver

I loved this book. It was full of romance, heartache and what ifs. It starts in 2008 just before Christmas. Laurie is on a bus in London and headed home for Christmas when she sees a guy waiting at a bus shelter – their eyes meet – and the bus moves on, leaving Laurie hopelessly in love with a stranger.

 Laurie and her best friend Sarah spend almost a year searching for the stranger Laurie nicknamed Bus Boy.

This is a romance about friendship, relationships and families. You will love this romance. It will make you wonder what if? Over and over. It reminded me of two of my favourite romance movies, Sleepless in Seattle and Serendipity.

A Superior Spectre  by Angela Meyer

The description of this book enticed me to read it. I was curious in how the two characters would see life through each other’s eyes.

Jeff somewhere in the future and Leonora from the late 1800’s, were able to haunt each other.

Leonora is a young girl living in the highlands of Scotland with her father. She has an affinity with nature and developing an interest in caring for animals. At night she has strange dreams and sees things that she can’t fathom. Meanwhile somewhere in the future Jeff travels from Australia to lose himself in Scotland. Jeff is dying and wants to spend his last days in isolation from his family and friends.

To amuse himself he takes a tab that lets him inhabit Leonora’s body in the past. He experiences life in Scotland life through Leonora and sees and feels her experiences. Jeff is also haunted by his past and early memories of sexual experiments as a homosexual. These memories also haunt Leonora.

Some sections were very explicit and confronting.

The Trouble With Choices

This novel was set in South Australia. It is a romance about families, relationships and secrets. Three sisters each have a secret but find they can't fall in love and move on until they share their secret. I loved the characters and the way they interacted with each other and their grandparents and other family members.