Plot summary (with spoilers): The action of this novel takes place a few months after what happened in Sweetheart (book 2 of the series). Serial Killer Gretchen Lowell is again on the loose in the Portland area, while homicide detective Archie Sheridan is in a mental hospital recovering from his wounds and addictions — [...]
Summary: In A Slobbering Love Affair, subtitled “The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media” author Bernard Goldberg shows a number of ways in which the media basically gave Barack Obama a pass during the 2007 primaries and the 2008 presidential campaign. Time and time again, [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): Set in Mississippi in the early 1960’s, The Help is told from three alternating viewpoints. One narrator is Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, a progressive young college grad from an upper middle-class white family who dreams of being a writer. Another narrator is Aibileen, a middle-aged black woman who has been a [...]
Summary: On January 15, 2009 U.S. Airways Flight 1549 ran into a flock of Canadian geese shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia. The craft lost both engines, and the pilot, Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, quickly determined that there simply wasn’t enough time to guide it back to LaGuardia or to Teterboro, another nearby airport in [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): This story is told in the form of a letter from Gilbert Markham to his brother-in-law Halford. It tells the particulars of how Gilbert came to fall in love with Mrs. Graham, a widow who recently moved into the neighborhood as a tenant at Wildfell Hall, a dark and gloomy [...]
Summary: After enjoying essayist David Sedaris’ most recent collection of humorous anecdotes, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, I decided to give some of his earlier works a look, mostly because I’d heard that the early stuff was even better. So I recently checked out the audio version of Me Talk Pretty One Day [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): It seems that things in Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer’s life simply can’t go smoothly for very long. With crime on the rise in San Francisco, everyone on the police force is putting in extra hours, yet they’re still woefully understaffed. As a result, Boxer herself partners up with Warren Jacobi again [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): Forty-year-old Nina Askew is looking for a change in her life. She’s been divorced and living on her own for a year, and though she loves the independence, she can’t help but feel that her apartment is too empty. She decides that what she wants most of all is a [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): Georgia Walker is the proud, independent 40-something woman who owns Walker & Daughter, a successful knitting supplies boutique in Manhattan. Georgia’s background is revealed slowly over the course of the novel, and the reader eventually learns about her failed relationship with James Foster over a decade ago. Georgia truly loved [...]
Plot summary (with possible spoilers): Dr. Temperance Brennan is a forensic anthropologist who splits her time between teaching at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and working as a coroner for the Montreal police department. She also has a penchant for getting embroiled in murder investigations, which is exactly what happens during her latest stint [...]