My focus is contemporary literary fiction (especially Canadian fiction) and mysteries. Schatje’s Shelves is my reading blog devoted primarily to reviews of the books I acquire for my library - a library which has 8,050+ books (print, ebooks, audiobooks) and keeps growing. Now that I'm retired, I have so much more time to read (and to enjoy the library my husband made for me). Sympathy for Mike because of his upbringing, but his behaviour is so obsessiveĪnd extreme that it stretches the reader’s credulity.įor 30 years, I was a high school English teacher/teacher-librarian. Soul” and thoughts of losing her leave him with “a feeling of inescapable Understand is that without V, he will have a “deep, all-encompassing void in my Others to make sure they end up together.” At one point he admits to having misunderstood a woman who tried toīefriend him but he never makes the jump to realizing he could be Thinks “sometimes two people need each other so much it is worth sacrificing She has begun another game of Crave! He believes that he and V “are the only people Had lost her mind with the distress I had caused her” or as an indication that He sees V’s engagement as a sign that “she Irrational when it comes to affairs of the heart. Difficult to believe is the extent of Mike’s delusions.
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