Just when you thought it might not happen, John Corey, in all his irascible, ornery, and often spot-on political incorrectness, returns. And this time he’s the hunter…or is he? After an absence of two years Nelson DeMille brings Corey back to wrap-up the story that began in The Lion's Game and continued in The Lion.There, Corey kills a Middle Eastern terrorist, who, though not ... Read More...
The Wine of Solitude
At eight, Hélène Karol lives in a small Russian town with her parents, Boris and Bella, and her grandparents. She is an odd, lonely girl largely because her mother is willful, spoiled and selfish, interested in only her own desires and unwilling to do anything more than blame her daughter for spoiling her fun. When her father loses his job and leaves for Siberia to manage a ... Read More...
Goldberg Variations: A Novel
Gloria Garrison née Goldberg is a successful businesswoman with an eleven million dollar fashion/beauty empire. She is also self-absorbed, superficial and of an emotional temperature cold enough to make the Arctic look welcoming. She refuses to visit a dying friend in the hospital and little to no reason is given; she simply doesn’t want to go. Is it any surprise then, that as ... Read More...
Banned Books Week: Authors
It’s Banned Books week in America so I hope you’re all reading away. While I don’t know that it was ever banned I’d like to credit my mother for telling an overeager school official that she was aware I was reading Go Ask Alice and that she and my father would be discussing it with me. She never once told me I was not allowed to read something (but she did balk at paying for ... Read More...
In Sunlight and In Shadow
And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold. Mark Helprin’s Winter's Tale was a magical enthralling ode to New York City and the first and only book I wanted to read after 9/11, despite having originally read it when I lived in NYC . It’s a timeless tale ... Read More...
Beautiful Lies
Set in late 1800s England, Beautiful Lies is the story of Maribel Campbell Lowe and her husband, Liberal MP, Edward Campbell Lowe. The story follows Edward’s mission to bring economic relief to the working classes in England who, at that time, are in the midst of massive poverty and joblessness. This part of the story is clearly defined and well thought out. Clare Clark has ... Read More...
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