House on Endless Waters by Emuna Elon

The writer Yoel Blum embarks on a journey of self-discovery surrounded by the popular canals of the city of Amsterdam and those lucky readers who have found this precious novel will travel with him.

House on Endless Waters will move you to tears and anger, it will also forever change that idyllic image you may have of The Netherlands. It's a novel within a novel, a gem for bookworms, one of those stories that must be written in order not to be forgotten, a must.

I strongly recommend it to those people who look back at WWII and think that it could never happen again, not here, not now, not to us.

Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison: review

I liked the way it was written, the unreliable narrators, the twists and turns of the plot and the fact that most characters were well developed. However, I didn't like what happened in the novel, too dark and too implausible at times. However, for fans of wicked characters and secrets a galore, this may be the perfect book. Mind you, don't read it while you (or your children) are away in a boarding school.


N.B. I posted this review accidentally about Good Girls Don't Lie by Alexandra Diaz. They are obviously different books with very similar names.

Recipe for a Perfect Wive by Karma Brown

I think that this book is mainly about the way the situation of married women has changed over time, for the better in most cases.

I found the novel captivating but what I loved most were the quotes at the beginning of the chapters. Particularly this one:

"The average man marries a woman who is slightly less intelligent than he is. That's why many brilliant women never marry. They do not come in contact with sufficiently brilliant men, or fail to disguise their brilliance in order to win a man of somewhat less intelligence".
(Dr. Clifford R. Adams, Modern Bride,1952)

This quote is both hilarious and sad.

I recommend this book to married and single women who sometimes have the feeling that men and women are different species.