Wednesday, July 15, 2009

A new author




Harriet Evans wrote a good little novel called "The Love of Her Life." I wanted light hearted but it had parts that could make you sad. Young Kate Miller is from London where she's trying to break into the magazine world. She has met the perfect fellow and everything is perfect. Well......we know that doesn't work. A collapse of her world as she knew took place in one day and she fled to New York to start another life. Three years go by and she's back in London to visit her sick father and comes face to face with the life she tried to escape. Growth of this young person into a mature woman is a fascinating story.

I guess I'll try to pick up the Jason Bourne novel that I put down to read this one. Somehow the loss of Robert Ludlum and his family's effort to keep his legacy going by selling his characters to the highest bidder is unsettling. The new author just can't get in the groove to make the character what Ludlum did. Of course trying to keep him a middle aged man when we devote followers of Ludlum's novels know that Jason Bourne would be a man in his 60's now. Maybe he's hoping that "movieland" will want to make more Jason Bourne movies from his novels.

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