AMY'S WORLD: FAVORITE READING
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO (fiction)by Anne Radcliffe
MYSTERY / SUSPENSE
THE CAPTIVE The Captive is, by far, Victoria Holt's best and most memorable tale. The main character is suddenly kidnapped and sold to be part of the harem of a powerful Islamic man. However, her sensability and connections in high places bring her through such a frightening experience that you almost feel it to be your own.
GREAT MYSTERIES: GREAT WRITERS featuring "Lucky Day," "Trapped," and others. (cassette)
This cassette is worth it just to hear "Lucky Day" by Mary Higgins Clark and "Trapped" by Dean Koontz. In fact, this cassette hooked me on Mary Higgins Clark. Both stories are full of suspense. You will be sitting on the seat of your chair trying to figure out in "Lucky Day" who killed the old man, why, and why the woman's husband is suddenly acting so strange. At the end, you experience the same shock the characters do and rethink your own relationship with the one you love and trust the most. In "Trapped," super intelligent lab rats escape and take on the task of of trapping the humans that created them before they themselves become trapped. When the rats blow up a farmhouse on their own accord, you begin to wonder if the rats have actually won.
MY GAL SUNDAY (Mary Higgins Clark)
My Gal Sunday is collection of stories about the ex-president & his new congresswoman wife. They seem to always be placed into situations where they are called upon to act quick on their feet. In one story Sunday is kidnapped and barely escapes imminent death. In another, a mystery a quarter century old is solved when the former president buys the boat where a murder was committed when he was a child. In another, the least suspected person turns out to be the most psychotic (isn't that the way it usually goes) in a murder case.
INTERNATIONAL
HEBREW
THE FAR EUPHRATES (a novel)
This book is filled with wonderful characters and wonderful writing that keeps you reading even though you are not even sure what the actual plot is til the end. The story is about the coming of age of a very pensive and solitary Jewish boy. However, the story crosses the boundaries of Judaism to every reader. The main character's only friend his age dies and he is told a very dark secret about one of his closest adult friends -- something that happened during the Jewish Holocaust. This is too much for him. He locks himself in his room, covering the windows, & refusing to see the light of day for a year. His mother thinks that he is confirming her fear that her strange child has finally gone insane. However, this is the opportunity that the boy needs -- as everyone does -- to "find himself" and what he believes. Finally, his seclusion is over, his mother discovers the "secret" that so muddled her son's mind, and she is the one who, in the end, goes insane.
SARAJEVO
ZLATA'S DIARY: A CHILD'S LIFE IN SARAJEVO (non-fiction diary)What would happen in your life if your country was involved in an all out war? Don't think that it's an impossibility in this modern age. Zlata begins writing her diary commonly enough, telling of her hopes for a ski trip & hopes for spending time in her vacation home. Her life is very normal -- one like you or I have. However, it is turned upside down by war. No heat in the dead of winter, relying on food from people who have escaped, hearing of the deaths of your peers . . . these are the things that Zlata faced -- things that could just have easily happened to you or I.
CHINA
WILD SWANS: THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA (biography/autobiography)
CHINA WAKES: THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF A RISING POWER (non-fiction)
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