Love Water Memory

I just read Love, Water, Memory by Jenni Shortridge and I am perplexed by all of the very high ratings this book received. I expected the unraveling of a great mystery, as the main character, Lucie, was found standing in the San Francisco Bay suffering from amnesia; that never materialized. The rela......more

A story of a woman who loses her memory after she fights with her fiancé. Through time, she finally finds out that she had a traumatic childhood which caused her disassociation. Also, she discovers she was a woman that she really doesn't like. She's engaged to a man and the two of them have to work......more

My Grady and Lucie: 3.5 STARS Lucie has amnesia. She has no recollection of her past, of who she is. She doesn't remember her fiancé Grady and she has no idea why she was found miles away from her hometown. What had happened? What events led to losing her memories? It is very difficult to cathegorize t......more

I've been thinking about good storytelling a lot lately. On Friday evening, I sat at the Rittenhouse Square Barnes & Noble with a friend and I read aloud to her a passage from another novel that I found amusing. She commented: "I've heard or seen something like that before. Maybe on a sitcom." This......more

I am a fan of Lisa Genova. While Genova writes a moving story around neurology that is captivating and heart wrenching and warming, filling the reader with hope yet not false promises, Jennie Shortridge is Genova's psychological counterpart. The story is about Lucie, who begins the story standing in......more