Pictures of You

 
I am not sure how I feel about this book!  It was entertaining enough, but the premise was a bit of a stretch.  An unhappy woman leaves the Cape when she discovers her husband is cheating on her and is having a baby.  Three hours from home outside New York City, she strikes and kills a woman who is in the middle of the road in front of her car in the dense fog.  Now, that woman she has killed is also from the Cape (quite likely, right?) and her surviving son and husband are naturally the ones that Irene wants.  And lo and behold, they just live six blocks away.  The boy has asthma and that plays into the story A LOT, and they act as though asthma is killing him every day.  And it doesn't end happy!  No, don't read this book, it just irritated me! LOL

Caribou Island

This was being reviewed in People Magazine and it looked interesting, so I downloaded a sample.  Liked the sample and downloaded the book at about 10:30 last night.  Stayed up until 1:30 and forced myself to sleep, woke up and started reading it again.  I finished it this evening.  And I must say, HOW exciting to read a book in a day versus weeks.  I'd forgotten, after the tomes I have been reading, that short books even existed!

As for the book, well, talk about DEPRESSING!  Geesh.  Obviously it held my attention, but the ending was horrid and I had to keep reading to see how it ended!  Kind of a gyp.  Would I recommend it?  You know, I think I would.  It is about a couple who have retired.  They live in Alaska and the husband Jim wants to build a log cabin on Caribou Island and live there.  The story is about him and his wife Irene actually building the cabin and realizing that they absolutely, positively despise each other.  The other characters in the book are their two grown children and it delves briefly into their pretty much tragically despondent lives.  Nothing about this story makes me want to move to Alaska, believe me!!!