Stolen Engagement Ring

Stolen........................

Advantages: Fantastic Reading
Disadvantages: Need plenty of tissues

***The Author*** Deborah Moggach - Born in 1948. As both of her parents were professional writers she inevitably began writing in her early twenties. Her first novel "You must be sisters" was published in 1978. She has gone on to write 15 more novels, including the one I am reviewing today, Stolen. ***The Book*** Stolen - first published in 1990 by William Heinemann Ltd, Michelin House, 81 Fulham Road, London. SW3 6RB. ***The Story*** A fantastic story of "East meets West". Salim, a well presented, well spoken, business man from Pakistan, meets Marianne, a typical English girl, with her bleach blonde hair, barmaid job, rebel attitude and a "dark past". Marianne works in a local pub as a barmaid and Salim runs a construction business, owned by his Father in Pakistan. They meet at an evening class, learning ...

abcdefg 23.10.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Stolen - Deborah Moggach

The Rules of Engagement

Advantages: Finding your partner can still be romantic after 9 years together
Disadvantages: Hangover from the champagne

. A lot of people were by now asking me about ?the ring? ? and I bet a lot of you are wondering why I haven?t mentioned it. After all, isn?t ?the ring? the key part of the whole engagement process? It is ?the ring? which seals the engagement, which symbolises the engagement of the woman to the world, and which gives the woman something to flaunt. Truth is, I didn?t want one. I don?t like them aesthetically, I am not girly enough to carry one off, and I don?t fell comfortable expecting my partner to buy me something so expensive when our budget is so tight. Someone I once worked with literally almost bankrupted himself buying a fancy engagement ring for his girlfriend, and I couldn?t bear to put that kind of pressure on my Other Half. Besides, engagement rings were bought largely to prove that the man could afford to support his prospective wife ...

Collingwood21 11.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Getting Engaged

Rings Around the World

Advantages: Compelling plot, interesting style
Disadvantages: Occasional lame dialogue

Singularity's Ring is a science-fiction novel exploring concepts of identity and group minds. In the future, or so the story goes, humanity will be bound together in groups or pods of two, three, four and sometimes five. Although pod members retain their individual names, skills and personalities, these are expressed primarily within the pod and they are capable of only limited independent activity. Author Paul Melko has drawn a convincing world where these group minds have taken over humanity democratically (because each member of each pod has a vote) and the remaining 'singletons' live somewhat resentfully in enclaves. We gradually learn that the pod culture has followed something called the Gene Wars, and the Community, an attempt at creating a gestalt entity from six billion humans that went disastrously wrong. The Community ...

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Review of Singularity's Ring - Paul Melko