It’s her birthday and she is physically 21 but we the reader can see that in some ways she is very much older than that and in others can see that she still has all the insecure thinking of a young lady with the added confusion on relationships and sex of someone that was sexual abused. We find Arizona sitting on Spencer's bed watching him sleep after breaking into his place. He was the one to kill her in the end and Arizona felt he robbed her of the revenge that she felt she needed to bring closure to that part of her life. But Spencer had his own plans for revenge as she was also remotely responsible for his wife's death. In Jackson's book all she wanted was to kill the woman who took her all those years ago. She was saved by Jackson who took her in and sent her off to school to try not only giving her an education but also some lessons on how to be a young lady. She endured many horrors during this time and after months managed to escape only to be caught again and thrown off a bridge to die. I think Ms Foster did an outstanding job with Arizona and Spencer's story.Īrizona was sold by her father to a human trafficking ring. Now I am not saying there is anything wrong with that because I think it was the best way to write Arizona's story. This latest book in the series is to me more of a character driven story than action and suspense.
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In its praise, the Governor General’s fiction jury said Warren “makes each moment shine” and that “her narrative flows seamlessly from character to character, all stunningly depicted.” The jury described her book about the daily lives of tiny Juliet, Sask., as an “exquisitely constructed” novel. She said the province “is changing like crazy these days.” The book has evolved as things have changed in southern Saskatchewan and it was important for me to tell a contemporary story about what is happening with life in Saskatchewan.” “I’ve been working on this book for a long time. “I’ve always thought about how we represent the West in fiction,” said Warren, who now lives in Regina but hails from Swift Current, Sask., after she picked up her award at a ceremony in Montreal. MONTREAL - Dianne Warren was keenly aware of the sterotypes surrounding westerners when she crafted her debut novel Cool Water, which won the Governor General’s fiction prize on Tuesday. 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Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah MoskowitzĮtta is tired of dealing with all of the labels and categories that seem so important to everyone else in her small Nebraska hometown.Įverywhere she turns, someone feels she’s too fringe for the fringe. I recommend this book to anyone wanting a good read. The characters we meet are unforgettable. James Clavell's Shogun is a sea adventure and a love story. The vividness of Japan through Clavell's eyes is also seen through our eyes. The narrative comes alive throughout the book, as words turn to pictures. Each custom we see as weird, the native Japanese see as a part of life, and so we are with Yabu when he decapitates a man. In Shogun, the author introduces us to Japanese history and Japanese culture. The tale centers around three definitive people: the Englishman, John Blackthorne, whose ship crashed on an island the powerful Japanese warlord Toranaga, who wants to learn more about the white-skinned stranger and where he came from and the beautiful woman, Mariko, torn between two different men, each with different meanings of love and of life. Set in the Japanese islands during the 1600s, the reader meets an ensemble of characters, each distinguished from the other. Although the book is over a thousand pages, I can guarantee that once begun, it will be hard to put down. Shogun, James Clavell's 1975 best-selling novel about medieval Japan, is a story not to be missed. Blackstone Publishing, Fiction - 1152 pages. 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