Saturday, July 13, 2013

Before I go to Sleep by S. J. Watson

A woman wakes up each morning and can't remember anything.  She doesn't recognize the man in bed with her, and she has no memories from the past 30 years or so.  Anything she learns in her day is erased when she goes to sleep at night.  Can this even happen?? At any rate, Christine decides to try to gain some control, and at the advice of her doctor, she starts a daily journal where she writes down everything that she learns about herself, and then every day she has to read the entire journal so she can figure out who she is.  There are several twists throughout the book, but it was a book I read to the end just to figure out how it could possibly be concluded.  I found the book to be pretty repetitive in parts and also unbelievable.  Visions of her past would appear to her just when she needed to have that information.  So even though it gets great reviews online, it doesn't get one from me.  -June

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