I'm still chuckling as I think about Twelve Minutes to Midnight.It's been a while since my mind was so absorbed in a book that I kept waiting to get back to it. I even took it with me to the Writers' Club at St. Mary's School and pored over it. I felt a little like a school-girl again as I read, for I could not help remembering all the times I would sneakily pick up a book between classes, reading it slyly in the few spare seconds I had, before hastily putting it away deep into my bag.(When I was in school, there was a rule I hated - we were not allowed to bring books that were not from the school library. A book that did not belong to the school could be CONFISCATED. This meant that in addition to being answerable to everyone at home and school, I would never find out what happened in the story!)Twelve Minutes to Midnight was a crazy book that kept me hooked; I could not … [Read more...]