Here for writing

It has been quite some time since I chanced upon a book that actually made me think. And before I proceed further, I still don’t  take back most of what I wrote about Sophie Hannah here . I have been rotting in the sad premise of bedside reading for years now. Most of my reading is just scanning. I don’t pay real attention to individual sentences or words. I have even skipped chapters when the author resorts to mindless description or endless dialogues or boring arguments that really don’t contribute to the plot. But Sophie Hannah made me re read the prologue twice –so compelling was her theory about stories and memories that I ended up poking my brain for memories and stories and tried to distinguish between the two based on her explanation. The book satisfied me on so many levels. This book is a classic whodunit which keeps hinting who the perpetrator is and also confirms it midway. But the author keeps us gripped because we want to know how the 3 apparently rand...

Genre: (A not so thrilling) Thriller Unputdownable Quotient: low Over all rating: 2.5/5 This is the first book I have read by this author. Will I take another book of hers the next time I visit my library? Yes. I will. Well, now that it is established, lets move to the book. A psychologically disturbed woman -Ruth Bussey with strict catholic upbringing seeks the help of a psychologically disturbed ex-CID -Charlie Zailer, who is now serving as community police. Ruth tells Charlie that her lover -Aiden Seed, psychologically disturbed picture framer, claims to have killed a woman years ago. But Ruth knows that the woman Aiden claims to have killed is alive and well. At the same time, Aiden approaches CID Simon Waterhouse, Charlie's Fiancé, with the story that he had killed a woman years ago. He gives complete description of the woman -Mary Trelease, the address where he killed her how he killed her and so on. Simon -the psychologically disturbed CID with strict cat...