Review of "I Am Radar" by Reif Larsen

This book kept me reading. It covered so much history throughout the world while following the "performances" of a mysterious group of artists originally based in Norway. The book starts out with the birth of Radar Radmanovic and follows his life until his involvement with the remaining artists in the group. Large parts of the book don't involve Radar but other members of the group. The stories are all fascinating with a touch of the mystical.

Review of "The Girl On the Train" by Paula Hawkins

This book slowly reveals the story of Rachel's life and her involvement in the murder at a house in the neighborhood that she used to live in. At first she doesn't seem like a very strong person who became an alcoholic when she was not able to conceive a child. She still loves her ex-husband even though he has remarried and has a child with another woman. Rachel wants to help solve the murder by telling the police what she observed from the train she takes every day. She knows that the husband of the murdered woman will be a suspect but she wants to help him. She observed his wife kissing another man on their terrace. The book had a lot of twists and turns as the truth is slowly revealed through Rachel's faulty memories and the points of view of the different characters in the novel. A great debut novel.