Anthony is a burned-out journalist whose personal life has cratered as well. In an effort to escape his personal problems and resuscitate his professional life he takes an unusual assignment. Twist is his months-long foray on a boat that’s responsible for repairing the deep-sea cables through which 95% of the world’s data travels. I googled that because I didn’t think ... Read More...
The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett
I’m moving away from terror today with The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett. Eudora is 85 years old, has never married, and lives quietly in her London rowhouse. She’s in reasonable health, but is tired of the idiocy of the modern world and afraid that because she has no family she’s going to spend her last days in a government facility with doctors trying to prolong her ... Read More...
The Staircase in the Woods
I’m not a huge horror fan, but I am easily influenced by a book’s cover and that was all it took to lead me into Chuck Wendig’s novel A Staircase in the Woods. Who could resist a cover like this? Or this premise: Five high school friends partying in the woods discover a staircase in a clearing. They dare Matthew, one of the five, to climb it and he does. And then he jumps off ... Read More...
Careless People: A Memoir
Careless People is the memoir from Sarah Wynn-Williams who worked at Facebook from 2011-2017 as the global public policy director. A former diplomat and lawyer she joined believing they needed someone with an understanding of foreign diplomacy. She was hired, but for a time, no one knew what to do with her, as Mark Zuckerberg was still plucking the American low-lying fruit of ... Read More...
May Reading Recap
May turned into quite a month for my reading and beyond. There’s plenty to share, but for now, I’ll stick with some of the books that stuck with me (and a couple that missed the mark). Daniel is a criminal profiler who works finding serial killers. He’s chosen this line of work because he’s haunted by having seen an abducted boy at a highway rest stop when he was ... Read More...
Time for a Break
Hello, fellow readers! No book review today and probably not for the rest of the month. I’m taking a bit of a break. Reading continues to be a great escape and source of joy for me, but gathering my thoughts into reviews is getting harder and harder. I’m struggling with both the quality and quantity of my writing. The why of this won’t come as a surprise to those of you who ... Read More...
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