Title Runner (Jane Whitefield)
Author
Thomas Perry
Rating ****
Tags thriller, series, jane whitefield
Perry is one of my favorite authors, and I have loved the Jane Whitefield series, about a woman who helps people in trouble disappear. This is the first in the series in a number of years; Perry wrote a number of excellent stand alones in between.
Jane takes her first case in over five years, as she feels she cannot turn away the young pregnant woman escaping a dangerous and abusive boyfriend.
I liked this book quite a lot, but it isn't, in my mind as good as some of the others in the series. My favorite was the one in which Jane and a couple of others gave away billions of Mafia money to charities.
It is a terrific series, though I'd start with some of the earlier ones and savor your way through all of them.
Publication Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (no date), Hardcover, 448 pages
Publication date no date
ISBN 0151015287 / 9780151015283
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Title: Drawers & Booths
Author
Ara 13
Rating **1/2
Tags religion, fiction, experimental literature
This book is Experimental Literature. I'm either too old or too conventional for it, and I'd really, really, really hate to think it was the latter. The story starts as a rather Catch 22-like war story, then turns into a trial of God. It is fun in its way, but makes the youthful mistake of trying to answer questions people have been trying to answer since man first had a thought, and that no one so far has been able to agree on answers to. At this point, I'm just too old.
Publication CovingtonMoore, Inc. (2007), Paperback, 224 pages
Publication date 2007
ISBN 0979863600 / 9780979863608
Author
Ara 13
Rating **1/2
Tags religion, fiction, experimental literature
This book is Experimental Literature. I'm either too old or too conventional for it, and I'd really, really, really hate to think it was the latter. The story starts as a rather Catch 22-like war story, then turns into a trial of God. It is fun in its way, but makes the youthful mistake of trying to answer questions people have been trying to answer since man first had a thought, and that no one so far has been able to agree on answers to. At this point, I'm just too old.
Publication CovingtonMoore, Inc. (2007), Paperback, 224 pages
Publication date 2007
ISBN 0979863600 / 9780979863608
Book Review: Queen's Gambit
Title The Queen's Gambit: A Leonardo da Vinci Mystery
Author
Diane A. S. Stuckart
Rating ***1/2
Tags leonardo da vinci, historical mystery
Workmanlike mystery with Leonardo as the detecxtive. It is set during the time Leonardo was working as artist and engineer for the Duke of Milan. His cousin is killed, and the duke asks Leonardo to solve the crime, which he does with the help of his apprentice Dino. Worth a read, don't know if it will be a series.
Publication Berkley Hardcover (2008), Hardcover, 336 pages
Publication date 2008
ISBN 0425219232 / 9780425219232
Author
Diane A. S. Stuckart
Rating ***1/2
Tags leonardo da vinci, historical mystery
Workmanlike mystery with Leonardo as the detecxtive. It is set during the time Leonardo was working as artist and engineer for the Duke of Milan. His cousin is killed, and the duke asks Leonardo to solve the crime, which he does with the help of his apprentice Dino. Worth a read, don't know if it will be a series.
Publication Berkley Hardcover (2008), Hardcover, 336 pages
Publication date 2008
ISBN 0425219232 / 9780425219232
Book Review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Title The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Author
Barrows, Annie
Mary Ann Shaffer
Rating *****
Tags fiction, letters, world war ii, nazis, guernsey
I first heard about this book on a list of the best books of 2008, and after reading it, I agree with that assessment. The book is written as a series of letters between a group of people post World War II. A woman writer becomes involved with a group of people living on the island of Guernsey, which was ocupied by the Nazis during the war. The characters get to know each other through the letters, then in person. There is great humor and warmth here, plus the memory of tragedy and pain.
Highly, highly, highly recommended!
Other authors
Barrows, Annie
Author
2
Author – Barrows, Annie
Publication The Dial Press (2008), Hardcover, 288 pages
Publication date 2008
ISBN 0385340990 / 9780385340991
Author
Barrows, Annie
Mary Ann Shaffer
Rating *****
Tags fiction, letters, world war ii, nazis, guernsey
I first heard about this book on a list of the best books of 2008, and after reading it, I agree with that assessment. The book is written as a series of letters between a group of people post World War II. A woman writer becomes involved with a group of people living on the island of Guernsey, which was ocupied by the Nazis during the war. The characters get to know each other through the letters, then in person. There is great humor and warmth here, plus the memory of tragedy and pain.
Highly, highly, highly recommended!
Other authors
Barrows, Annie
Author
2
Author – Barrows, Annie
Publication The Dial Press (2008), Hardcover, 288 pages
Publication date 2008
ISBN 0385340990 / 9780385340991
Book Review: The Bodies left Behind
Title The Bodies Left Behind: A Novel
Author
Jeffery Deaver
Rating ****
Tags mystery, thriller, women
Deaver is best known for the Lincoln Rhyme series about a quadriplegic forensic expert. This book is a stand alone, about a woman deputy who is asked to investigate a 911 call and walks into a double murder and is forced to run with another woman. The deputy, the other woman, and the two killers play out a deadly dance, full of Deaver's trademarked plot twists. The book has interesting characters and a good plot. Recommended.
Publication Simon & Schuster (2008), Hardcover, 368 pages
Publication date 2008
ISBN 1416595619 / 9781416595618
Author
Jeffery Deaver
Rating ****
Tags mystery, thriller, women
Deaver is best known for the Lincoln Rhyme series about a quadriplegic forensic expert. This book is a stand alone, about a woman deputy who is asked to investigate a 911 call and walks into a double murder and is forced to run with another woman. The deputy, the other woman, and the two killers play out a deadly dance, full of Deaver's trademarked plot twists. The book has interesting characters and a good plot. Recommended.
Publication Simon & Schuster (2008), Hardcover, 368 pages
Publication date 2008
ISBN 1416595619 / 9781416595618
Friday, February 13, 2009
George Soros' Plan to Rebuild the Economy
Soros' plan, an excerpt of his book The Crash of 2008 and What it Means, is here. Consists of five components.
Stimulus Bill and the GOP
Excellent article on what is really in the stimulus bill and what the Republicans hope for by opposing it (more seats in 2010). Also refutes their notion that there was no bipartisan outreach.
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