BOOK REVIEW Left Neglected

Left Neglected
by Lisa Genova
Originally published 2011
Published by Simon & Schuster Ltd
Contemporary Fiction

Do you know what is left neglect? If you don´t, TRY imagining this:
Look at your keyboard and start typing something. Whoops. It ended up looking something like this: hllo my in. (hello my friend) That is because you do not notice the left side of your keyboard. That is what could happen to a person with left neglect. Now there is nothing wrong with their eye sight, they just do not notice the things on their left side, whether it is the left side of their body, the left side of the room, left of the page of a book, anything.

So that is what this book is about, a woman with left neglect. That is all I will tell about the plot to not spoil too much. I definitely liked this book! I don´t often read books like this, but from time to time one catches my eye. Thankfully this one did.

The beginning was just a little bit slow for me, basically because I was expecting the certain point of the story I knew was coming. But the author described Sarah´s life so that it was easy to imagine her everyday normal life, which is important to fully understand how it changes. Then it was all really good and I couldn´t stop reading. The author has written a well described story of a family´s struggle and succeeded in putting in the funny side of things that are not funny. A really quick read!

BOOK REVIEW Bleachers

Bleachers 
by John Grisham
Originally published 2003
Publisher: Century
Sports, Contemporary Fiction

4 stars

This book really surprised me! I did not want to stop reading. And I don´t really know anything about American football, and that´s what they keep talking and thinking about. Maybe it was the team spirit and the going back and reliving the adolescent years and meeting those people from that time. Not much happens in it, but I really liked it nevertheless. I don´t really now what I liked about it, just that I did. And to make me like a book like this, means the author has really succeeded. It´s been years since I last read a Grisham book. I really need to read more again.