Emerson Knight is introverted, eccentric, and has little-to-no sense of social etiquette.
Good thing he’s also brilliant, rich and (some people might say) handsome or he’d probably be homeless.
Riley Moon has just graduated from Harvard Law and Harvard Business.
Her aggressive Texas spitfire attitude has helped her land her dream job as a junior analyst at Blane-Grunwald. At least Riley Moon thought it was her dream job until she is given her first assignment, babysitting Emerson Knight.
Happily Follett released a prequel in 2020 starting 997 AD.
Another long book. Very engaging.
I love reading about the technology of the day.
Follett, too, writes love stories as well as anyone.
… the end of the Dark Ages, and England faces attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Life is hard, and those with power wield it harshly, bending justice according to their will – often in conflict with the king. With his grip on the country fragile and with no clear rule of law, chaos and bloodshed reign.
Three Lives Intertwined Into this uncertain world three people come to the fore: a young boatbuilder, who dreams of a better future when a devastating Viking raid shatters the life that he and the woman he loves hoped for; a Norman noblewoman, who follows her beloved husband across the sea to a new land only to find her life there shockingly different; and a capable monk at Shiring Abbey, who dreams of transforming his humble abbey into a centre of learning admired throughout Europe.
A prominent high-society matron — who happens to be a fierce supporter of the President (Trump) —and co-founder of the Potus Pussies — disappears at a Palm Beach Gala.
Who or what killed her?
Trump (secret service name Mastodon) and Melania(secret service name Mockingbird) are both characters in the novel. Both with other lovers.
Carl Hiaasen takes the madness that is every day Florida, and turns it into hilarious, irreverent books.
A young adult novel, it’s ideal for younger kids too.
I grew up with Carol Johnston, the gymnast who was featured in the Disney TV movie Lefty (1980)
Nobody called Carol “Lefty” back at Altadore. We called her Carol, one of the best gymnasts in the club.
It was difficult for any other gymnast to complain about anything as Carol worked even harder — and never complained.
Carol passed away on May 11, 2019 due to complications from Early On-set Alzheimers, by the way. Sad. But her legend lives on.
She’s still a role model for gymnasts with physical challenges.
Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them.
And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing that she’ll have to answer the question over and over again.
Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she bonds with Connor, a classmate who also feels isolated because of his own disability, and they discover a room at Stagecoach Pass that holds bigger secrets than Aven ever could have imagined.
Many times I’ve not been all that impressed by Fiction winners — but this is an emotional story very well told. Despite the horrors, it’s almost uplifting by the end.
It was based on the real story of the Dozier School, a reform school in Florida that operated for 111 years and had its history exposed by a university’s investigation.
It was named one of TIME‘s best books of the decade.
Set in the 1960s, the novel follows Elwood Curtis, a studious African American from Tallahassee with a sense of justice, who is adjudicated delinquent and sent to Nickel Academy, a juvenile reformatory in Eleanor, Florida, after riding in a stolen vehicle …
He befriends Jack Turner …
The Dozier school allowed beatings, rapes, torture, and even murder of students by guards and employees. Some 55 graves were uncovered on school grounds by December 2012.
The New Republic: “The Nickel Boys is fiction, but it burns with outrageous truth.
The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road.
Rocco recommended this book.
Sometimes the truth is more unbelievable than fiction.
Ross Ulbricht (born March 27, 1984) is an American convict best known for creating and operating the darknet market website Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. …
Federal prosecutors alleged that Ulbricht had paid $730,000 in murder-for-hire deals targeting at least five people, allegedly because they threatened to reveal Ulbricht’s Silk Road enterprise.
It’s possible that none were actually killed. Ulbricht might have been scammed for that money.
People died using Silk Road drugs.
Ulbricht justified his crimes with a B.S. personal philosophy that he was doing more good for the world than bad. He wasn’t.
There are still more questions than answers about Silk Road.
Deep Web is a 2015 documentary film chronicling the events.
Emerson Knight is introverted, eccentric, and has little-to-no sense of social etiquette.
I grew up with 
Aven Green
Rick McCharles 