When I was a little girl, I read Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery so kindly lent by my best friend. Recently, I bought a copy myself and thoroughly enjoyed reading it all over again. Its the stuff of the heart-warming kind.
Then I went and made the unforeseeable mistake of trying to read First Among Equals by Sir Jeffery Archer. Well, read was an euphemised figure of speech in this case. Glancing through one page and turning the next – more like. I tried my best to understand what the Labour candidate did to which Conservative one, both of them contesting to qualify for the House of Commons(?) but gave up 50 pages before the end. I couldnt finish it. Big surprise.
I wouldnt recommend it to anyone who doesnt understand a word of politics and also to those like me who need way better books to read.
Finally, I hop skipped & jumped to another Archer book – As the crow flies. This was more of my type of book. Racy, surprises, schemes… basically an all out-unputdownable. Albeit, although I couldnt see the link between the title and the story. For this one, I give a full fledged 12 out of 10.
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