As a kid I was very frustrated with "Anne of the Island" by L. M. Montgomery. I, like everyone else in Avonlea, thought it was totally *obvious* that Anne belonged with Gilbert Blythe and didn't understand why she was wasting her time with that Roy Gardner guy and running the risk of losing Gilbert. As an adult, rereading it this time around, I sort of wondered why she didn't stick with Roy, he seemed pretty awesome. And hey, how is it the girl racks up marriage proposals every freaking day? I'm honking jealous, I've never even had one. Jeez, way to make a girl feel inadequate over here, Anne :) Anyway, it's actually a pretty good book and I enjoyed the camaraderie between Anne and her friends while living together at Patty's Place.
"Before I Go to Sleep" by S. J. Watson was very good, quite fast paced and hard to put down. Christine Lucas has a severe form of amnesia: every morning when she wakes up she has no idea who she is or where she is at. Every morning her devoted husband, Ben, patiently explains that she had a bad accident nearly 20 years earlier and lost her memory. She has no memories at all of the days before and only sketchy memories of her childhood. After Ben leaves for work every day her doctor, Dr. Nash, calls to tell her to get her journal out of its hiding place and read it so she'll remember the days before. Every day she can't believe Dr. Nash until she finds the journal where he tells her to look and reads it. She gives it to Dr. Nash to read and when he returns it, she goes to read it the next day after he calls to remind her where she's hiding it and sees she has written in the front "Don't trust Ben". Oooh...why not, why not? Of course there is nothing in the journal that explains this. Watson did a great job of capturing how disorientating it must be to wake up every day and not know who you are.
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