Read a book each month

Somehow I just didnt read anybook – always other things to do. But I’m not giving up.

Just started this book today

Some books take longer than others. I read the entire Harry Potter series in the month of November. Now I’m reading A Game of Thrones, which has taken me a while to get through.

On New Years Eve 1998, Ashburton teenager Kirsty Bentley went missing. Two weeks later her body was found 40 kilometres out of the town she called home. In her book Kirsty, Jill Bentley writes lovingly of her daughter’s life: and lifts the lid on the media circus and aftermath that followed her very public death. Sadly her murderer has never been caught.

This is a wonderful and moving story about the love a Mother has for her daughter.

I have read Schapelle’s Story and I am convinced she is an Innocent woman caught up in a world you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. What she has to put up with everyday is an outrage. At least she has the love of her family to get her through everything and her knowlegde that she is Innocent.

I have finally managed to borrow Schapelle Corby’s book from the library. I have been looking forward to reading about what she has been through and how she got to be where she is today.

Synoposis.

It was meant to be a holiday. A fun-filled break to a tropical paradise to celebrate a sister’s birthday. But for Schapelle Corby it ended up a waking nightmare. She was arrested at Denpasar airport after 4.2 kilograms of marijuana was found in her boogie-board bag. Schapelle had become the real-life victim of every traveller’s darkest fear – drugs had been placed in her bag after she checked it in. Though completely innocent, she was forced to face the consequences of someone else’s crime in a country where the penalties for drug smuggling are among the harshest in the world.

Her trial and conviction became one of the biggest stories of the decade in Australia, and the entire nation watched in horror as she was sentenced to twenty years in jail. Yet despite the huge media coverage, the one voice we never properly heard was Schapelle’s herself. Now, in this searing and utterly compelling book she tells her own story: of being wrenched from a carefree holiday into a stinking police cell, of an alien legal system where her attempts to prove herself innocent were thwarted at every turn, and of learning to survive – day by terrible day – in the squalor, discomfort and violence of a third-world jail.

Schapelle’s story is an account like no other – of a young woman experiencing the unimaginable, and enduring the unendurable with courage, strength and humour. It’s simply the most unforgettable book you’ll ever read.

The Privy Council in London quashed his convictions for the murder of his family in Dunedin in 1994 and ordered a retrial, after deciding he had been the victim of a serious miscarriage of justice.

David, now 35, got his first taste of freedom today after being granted bail at a hearing in the High Court in Christchurch. A decision on whether he will face a retrial remains to be made.

I will update this blog when I know something more.

Today I mangaged to pick up a copy of Bridget Jones – Edge of Reason. It is the second book of the series and i am looking forward to seeing if it is like the previous book that was just as good as the movie. I shall keep you posted.

This story is about another miscarriage of NZ justice.

“David & Goliath” The Bain Family Murders – Joe Karam

A story that shocked New Zealand. In the early hours of 20 June 1994, five members of the Bain family were shot dead in their Dunedin home. Four days later David Bain, the sole surviving family member, was arrested and charged with their murder. A year later, he was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.
But the story does not end there. David Bain has always maintained his innocence, and gaps in the evidence used in court, and new evidence which has since come to light, support his claim. Yet he remains imprisoned for a crime he says he did not commit
Convinced that David Bain had been the victim of an enormous injustice, Joe Karam began reading through the police case file and examining the evidence himself. What he discovered makes gripping reading.

To Cry Inside picks up where Lesley Martin’s first book To Die Like A Dog left off. Her reasons for writing that first book which led to her arrest, her experiences during the prosecution and trial, the effect on her family and friends and not least her difficult time in Arohata Women’s prison are all described in this honest and moving account of what happens when someone stands up for their beliefs but breaks the law and divides public opinion in the process. A personal and tough minded insight into the death with dignity debate.

http://www.life.org.nz/euthanasiaabouteuthanasiahistorynz5.htm