31/10/10 - Damon Galgut - In a Strange Room

South African man traveling the world - but not really engaging in anyone or anywhere he goes - nor me for that matter. The protagonist seems just such an observer and passive. The constant switching between first and third person was also annoying - I am sure there was a clever point to it - author/lead character alternating - but I still didn't like it. The third part of the book was more engaging - but too tragic and sad.

21/10/10 - Maggie O'Farrell - After You'd Gone

An unashamedly romantic tear jerker - what am I doing - my last book as Love Story too. SPOILER ALERT - it was so sad when her lover died - and then she falls into this coma - only surfacing on the very last page. As a boy - I would have to say that it is clearly overly romantic and all this focus on what a perfect couple they are and how pure their love is, is to me little unrealistic. But as Daniel - I did end up enjoying the book OK - I admit it - and shed a few tears.

3/10/10 - Erich Segal - Love Story

At Catherine's farm in Balidu for a beautiful weekend, but without a book. The farm has lots of books from the 70s - so what better than Love Story. The woman still dies at the end - and I did shed a few tear. Of course it is a little sickly sweet - but a light read for a couple of sittings.