Archive for the ‘Ghost’ Category
YES, MY DARLING DAUGHTER by Margaret Leroy
In YES, MY DARLING DAUGHTER, Grace is a single mother living in London with her nearly 4-year old daughter, Sylvie. Sylvie is an interesting child. She has never once called her mother anything but “Grace” from the time that she started talking. She is completely phobic about getting any water on her face and she draws the same house over and over, claiming it to be “my house,” though the house looks nothing like the flat she and her mother live in. She says other weird things, such as accusing her best friend Lennie as being “not my Lennie.” And, she is very sad. Normal children are not sad.
June 10, 2009
Tags: Family Matters, FSG, Gothic, London, mothers & daughters Posted in: Ghost, United Kingdom, Women's Fiction 
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THE LATE, LAMENTED MOLLY MARX by Sally Koslow
Thirty-five year-old Molly Divine Marx finds herself watching her own funeral. She thinks to herself, “I’m dead, but I have not lost my “joie de vivre.” Death is a new experience for our protagonist, so she is surprised to find she has the ability to observe life as it continues on without her. She watches the people she left behind and listens to their thoughts. Molly is in a place called the Duration.
June 9, 2009
Tags: chick lit, Humorous, Mystery Posted in: Book Club Choice, Ghost, Humorous, New York City, Women's Fiction, chick lit, murder mystery No Comments
