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Book Club Read: I Am Pilgrim

4th September 2015 by Gemma Leave a Comment

I Am Pilgrim

I came upon this book via one of the girls from book club, when we were on a crime/thriller spree earlier this year. It was published two summers ago in 2013, and a year later, its movie rights were bought by MGM. The author, Terry Hayes, used to be a journalist (a foreign correspondent in the US for the Sydney Morning Herald who covered the Nixon/Watergate scandal) but his writing skills have been more recently used for screenwriting (although by recent, I meant late 90s to early 2000). His latest venture has been the book I Am Pilgrim, and I reckon he’s probably also involved in the screenwriting process for the movie.

The book’s opening scene starts with quite a big splash — a crime scene in central New York, a ‘remarkable murder’ as described by the main protagonist in first person POV. From there everything just runs, trickles of information coming out about the mystery, about our main man and his past adventures, about another man miles away in the Middle East and his own journey, and how they come together as opposing sides in the fight of “good vs evil”.

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Reading Challenge 2015: The Girl on the Train

13th April 2015 by Gemma Leave a Comment

The Girl On The Train

The Girl on the Train is the first book by Paula Hawkins, a journalist for fifteen years before hopping into published fiction. Born in Zimbabwe, she has, however, been a Londoner since 1989. The main character, Rachel, opens the book and spends a lot of time on the train to commute from her town Ashbury to London, looking at random things — rags on the train track, suburban architecture, fellow passengers. As the train runs down the track through a blur of Victorian houses, Rachel gets a regular glimpse of the life of a young couple whenever the train does its regular stop at a signal just before a station. She ‘sees’ them so often that she feels she knows them closely and has attributed names to them. The ball starts rolling when Rachel sees something ‘shocking’ one day, and volunteering this information gets her deeply involved in the lives of select members of that neighborhood.

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Reading Challenge 2015: A Study in Scarlet

17th February 2015 by Gemma Leave a Comment

A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1887 in Beeton’s Christmas Annual. Now famous all over the world, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson were first introduced in this narrative. The mystery involves a dead man found in an abandoned house in Brixton, south London. The obvious clues are a woman’s wedding ring, two letters addressed to two different names, and a word scrawled in the wall with blood. I say obvious because they were the easiest to find. This is Sherlock Holmes we are talking about after all.

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Born in Manila, based in London. Endless curiosity turns into infinite adventures.    "I read; I travel; I become."

 

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