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Stephen King\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 11\/22\/63<\/strong><\/p>\n We’ve all heard the question posed \u2013 what if you could go back in time and kill Hitler \u2013 before he came to power. Would you do it?<\/p>\n Now it’s King’s turn to pose the question.\u00a0 As an American he’s sending his time traveller back to Dallas to kill Lee Harvey Oswald before he can assassinate President Kennedy. King (or rather his time travelling hero) seems to think that American history \u2013 world history for that matter \u2013 would change dramatically if JFK had stayed at the helm of the USA. He might even be right\u2026<\/p>\n But \u2013 although the time travel seems to put this house-brick of a novel in the genre of Sci Fi\u2026 it’s not until the last pages that I realised it’s actually a love story.<\/p>\n And the real question King asks is\u2026 How far would you go.. what would you sacrifice for someone you loved? Would you risk the whole world?<\/p>\n Stephen has long since grown past the ‘horror writer’ genre label.\u00a0 He writes intelligent, thought provoking fiction \u2013 and some of it (like this one) doesn’t have much in the way of the supernatural about it. King’s horror ultimately is found inside people.<\/p>\n Love it \u2013 recommend it. If you’ve never fancied Stephen King because of the horror side of his work \u2013 this might be a good place to start reading his ‘other stuff’.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Susanna Kearsley \u2013 The Winter Sea<\/strong><\/p>\n This had been sitting on my TBR shelf for a while \u2013 in paperback. I’m not going anywhere for a few weeks, so decided it was time to go back and read some physical books.<\/p>\n The lovely cover has always captivated me. I have hesitated because it is (partly) set in the midst of the Jacobite rebellion. My Australian education didn’t dwell on such matters, and I was a little concerned I might not enjoy the book.<\/p>\n I was wrong.<\/p>\n The book has two stories running parallel- one modern and one set in 1708. The Jacobite rebellion is the focus of the story. The research I am sure is impeccable, but it didn\u2019t intrude. I learned enough to understand the motivations of the characters, without ever feelings as if I was at a history lecture. And the research never impinged upon the main story \u2013 which of course was a love story.<\/p>\n I really enjoyed this one\u2026 and have already added another by the same author \u2026 this one on my Kindle.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Encouraged by the feel of reading a ‘real’ book again, I went back to my pile of unread paperbacks and took another historical that dealt with a time period about which I know next to nothing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n My Fair Concubine \u2013 Jeannie Lin.<\/strong><\/p>\n This is a Mills and Boon historical that I collected at a conference once.<\/p>\n I am not normally a reader of category romance, but l liked the cover and the fact that it was set in China in the Tang Dynasty. Not a common setting.<\/p>\n I enjoyed this far more than I anticipated.<\/p>\n The uncommon setting was really well drawn and I found myself really interested in the customs of the time and place.<\/p>\n It’s not a heavy or challenging read \u2013 but it is an enjoyable one, with likeable main characters and enough subplots and secondary characters to give it depth.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Vampire State of Mind \u2013 Jane Lovering<\/strong><\/p>\n Jane is a friend (full disclosure is good for the soul) so I went into this expecting to like it. I didn’t like it \u2013 I loved it.<\/p>\n It’s a book full of vampires \u2013 sexy, very well-dressed vampires. Dangerous ones too.<\/p>\n The universe this book is set in gives us a different interpretation of the vampire mythos (no spoilers here \u2013 remember) and I liked this new vision.<\/p>\n I found the heroine very appealing \u2013 the writing fast and funny\u2026 but the emotional payoff at the end wasn’t light at all\u2026 the end was deeply emotional and gripping.<\/p>\n Enuff said \u2013 just read it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here’s another book by Choc Lit – I read a lot of books by my own publisher – but there’s a reason for that. Choc Lit publishes really good books. That’s why I wanted to be published by them.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>