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| November 16, 2008 | ||
Also, read a second review of THE FIRST QUARRY by Max Allan Collins with a review of THE LAST QUARRY. |
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| November 11, 2008 | ||
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and of a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment. (read review) Also, read Mary's review of SONG FOR SOLOMON by Toni Morrison |
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| November 6, 2008 | ||
Where did the ruthless killer-for-hire Quarry's story start? For the first time ever, the best-selling author of ROAD TO PERDITION takes us back to the beginning, revealing the never-before-told story of Quarry's first job: infiltrating a college town and eliminating a professor whose affair with one of his beautiful, young students is the least of his sins... (read review) |
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Poornima Apte and Sudheer Apte did something that most of us only wish we had. They were part of the army of citizens that participated in this year's presidential election and helped President Elect Barack Obama win the election in my home state. Want to know what it was like to canvas? Read Poornima's essay on WHAT CANVASSING TAUGHT ME. Michael Crichton died unexpectedly in Los Angeles on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 after a courageous and private battle against cancer.
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| November 2, 2008 | ||
At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal--that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment. (read review)
At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing, she has signed on to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. But when the Edwardses' two grown sons arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers vie for her affections, the fragile existence Sydney has rebuilt is threatened. (read review) UPDATE on Judi's travel: See my Travel Blog for updates and photos! Today I visited Powell's City of Books! |
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| October 31, 2008 | ||
Things are finally looking up for defense attorney "Lincoln Lawyer" Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him next. Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent's killer, he is not opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners realize their only choice is to work together. (read review) |
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| October 27, 2008 | ||
An intriguing tale of darts, drugs, and death. Russell Harmon is the self-proclaimed king of his small-town Idaho dart league, but all is not well in his kingdom. In the midst of the league championship match, the intertwining stories of those gathered at the 321 club reveal Russell's dangerous debt to a local drug dealer, his teammate Tristan Mackey's involvement in the disappearance of a college student, and a love triangle with a former classmate. The characters in Keith Lee Morris's second novel struggle to find the balance between accepting and controlling their destinies, but their fates are threaded together more closely together than they realize. Poornima, who also read the book (twice), says that this book deserves oodles of praise. (read review) UPDATE on Judi's travel: See my Travel Blog for updates and photos! We are in Santa Barbara, California. Thanks for all the great mysteries Tony Hillerman! Mr. Hillerman died on Sunday at the age of 83. |
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| October 22, 2008 | ||
At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean; its purpose, to fight China’s vicious nineteenth-century Opium Wars. As for the crew, they are a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a freespirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers. Short listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. (read review) UPDATE on Judi's travel: See my Travel Blog for updates and photos! We are in Yuma, AZ. |
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| October 19, 2008 | ||
On the eve of the 2000 election, the charmed life of Washington hostess Trudy Hopedale is quietly falling apart. Her daytime talk show is about to be hijacked by a younger, prettier assistant, and then there is the horrifying novel that her husband has written in secret, which contains some rather troubling implications for a former Foreign Service colleague. And what is her mother-in-law telling everyone? With a bewitching sense of nostalgia, Jeffrey Frank has written an exquisitely funny, tender, and deeply perceptive novel that vividly invokes the simpler world of only yesterday. (read review) UPDATE on Judi's travel: See my Travel Blog for updates and photos! We are in Tucson, AZ and have been since Monday. |
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| October 18, 2008 | ||
England, mid-1980s: the kind of place where nothing ever happens. Except something has happened: A fifteen-year-old boy called Robert has died down by the pools. And half a dozen lives will come unraveled. The Pools subtly reveals the tensions and terrors that underpin apparently ordinary lives, causing them to spiral suddenly out of control. (read review) |
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| October 14, 2008 | ||
A page-turning period mystery. In the autumn of 1876, nineteen-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst arrives at the great country house of Evenwood to become a lady's maid to the twenty-sixth Baroness Tansor. But Esperanza is no ordinary servant. She has been sent by her guardian, the mysterious Madame de l'Orme, to uncover the secrets that her new mistress has sought to conceal, and to set right a past injustice in which Esperanza's own life is bound up. (read review)
"After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper." So begins the story of Edward Glyver, booklover, scholar, and murderer. A chance discovery convinces Glyver that greatness awaits him. His path to win back what is rightfully his leads him to Evenwood, one of England's most enchanting country houses, and a woman who will become his obsession. (read review) |
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| October 11, 2008 | ||
Elvis Cole is back and in a desperate fight to clear his name. Three years earlier he helped cleared Lionel Byrd but now a suicide victim is identified as the former suspect. And he is found with a photo album of seven brutally murdered young women -- one is the woman that Byrd was accused of murdering. Only the serial killer could have taken these photos... making Elvis Cole look to be the unwitting accomplice. (read review) UPDATE on Judi's travel: See my Travel Blog for updates and photos! We are in Las Cruces, NM this weekend. |
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| October 7, 2008 | ||
After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up to find herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England. (read review) |
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