#1 The Light Between Oceans

This is the first entry in my book reading journal for 2017. I read so many books, that rarely do I remember them other than vaguely. Then people ask me what books I've read and do I have any recommendations, and of course I remember neither the title nor the author. I do, however, generally remember the cover illustration, though that's often not very helpful. In 2010 I kept a book reading journal. I read 80 novels that year and ended the year with my top 10 list. The winner that year was "Dream Wheels" by Richard Wagamese, one of my favourite authors.

So for 2017 I will keep this online journal of the books I read. I will include my thoughts on the book, recommendations, links to reviews on Goodreads, and movie trailers if there is a movie.

The Light Between Oceans
M.L. Stedman

I just finished this novel today. It takes place in Australia, and is about a lighthouse keeper, shortly after he returns home from WWI. He marries, but his wife, Isabelle, is unable to have children. A boat washes up on the shore of their small island, with a dead man and a living baby inside, shortly after Isabelle has lost a third baby. They decide to keep the baby as their own, telling no one the truth. Four years later………

The book is readable, though I had to find a spoiler website before I could finish the novel. The tension in the book was difficult, as there are so many immoral decisions made by the couple. The suspense keeps you reading until the end.

From Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13158800-the-light-between-oceans

The book is now a movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk7yw00a4fs

Rating:  3.4 / 5
Recommendation: Very readable, interesting description of the life of a lighthouse keeper, good tension that keeps you reading. The moral struggle was difficult.