Plot summary (with spoilers): Castle is a relatively new television show about a mystery novelist named Richard Castle who rides along with NYPD detectives as research for his books. The main character in his next novel is a female detective named Nikki Heat, whom he is basing on Det. Kate Beckett. As a promotional tie-in [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): The Ambersons are a family of immense wealth. They own a lot of property in the business district of the unnamed Midwestern town where the action takes place, and they have magnificent residential estates in all the best locations. Like many wealthy families, however, their position is a precarious one in [...]
I didn’t even know Ethan Hawke had written a book until I saw the audio version of Ash Wednesday available as a download through the public library. I decided to check it out and see if Hawke has anything good to offer as an author. He doesn’t. I only made it about 30 percent of [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): Mikael Blomkvist is a disgraced journalist who has been found guilty of libel due to an erroneous exposé his financial magazine Millennium published about high-powered Swedish business magnate Hans-Erik Wennerström. The judgment has caused advertisers to pull out of Millennium, thereby endangering the magazine’s future survival, and has also resulted in [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): The protagonist of Slaughterhouse-Five is Billy Pilgrim, a man who has become “unstuck in time”. As a result of this phenomenon, he constantly flits back and forth to different periods of his life. Now he’s a young soldier captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge and held in [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): For the very first time in a full-length novel, Hercule Poirot’s ultra-efficient secretary Miss Lemon makes an appearance. She is under a lot of stress lately, as evidenced by a few mistakes she makes in typing letters for Poirot. Ordinarily, Miss Lemon does not make mistakes. Poirot asks what’s wrong, and [...]
Here are the New York Times Bestsellers in a few of the more popular categories. Hardcover Fiction: 1. DELIVER US FROM EVIL, by David Baldacci 2. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett 3. THE DOUBLE COMFORT SAFARI CLUB, by Alexander McCall Smith 4. THIS BODY OF DEATH, by Elizabeth George 5. LUCID INTERVALS, by Stuart Woods [...]