Sarah Pinborough has published about 20 books, so far, but is most famous for Behind Her Eyes (2017).
It was adapted into a Netflix TV series also called Behind Her Eyes.
Cross Her Heart (2018) is similar. Another psychological thriller.
Female friendships, mothers and daughters, teenage girls. Workplace drama.
It’s good. An interesting plot.
But I liked Behind Her Eyes better.
This one feels too long. Could have used a more severe editor.
Jerry Saltz won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2018.
Since 2006 he’s been senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine.
Astonishingly, he was a long distance truck driver until age-41.
One of the very LAST words I’d use to describe myself is artist. Yet even I found this book useful in my quest to become a more artistic video creator.
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The Expanse on TV is better than the books.
For some reason I just can’t get hooked on the story telling of of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, who publish as S. A. Corey.
Too long. Too many characters. Too much talk. Not enough action.
Also — why the weird book titles?
I was happy to see James Holden and crew back together again. With Bobbie Draper.
It’s now a combined fleet of ships from Earth, Mars, and the Outer Planets Alliance fighting the Free Navy, run by BAD GUY Marco Inaros.
I’m looking forward to sixth and supposedly final season of The Expanse on Prime which should be based on this book.
Cas Anvar as Alex Kamal will be gone. Charged with multiple allegations of sexual harassment and assault.
Sweterlitsch says The Gone World was inspired partly by chatting with his brother-in-law, an NCIS agent.
His brother-in-law said that it would be interesting to investigate crimes by jumping forward in time to question witnesses after the heat of the moment has passed, then jumping back and applying their testimony to the investigation.
Moss hops between 1997 and 2015 a handful of times, encountering wildly different futures as her immediate investigation progresses.
She quickly discovers that there’s more to this murder than meets the eye. The suspected killers are connected to some serious anti-government movements, including several terrorist attacks — and they seem to be the crew of the vanished Libra.
The Gone World is a brilliant, complicated novel about the consequences of time travel
I love the McKinty books, but this is my least favourite, so far.
For some reason it just didn’t work for me.
Nudist sun worshipping cult in German New Guinea?
It sounded intriguing.
Synopsis:
Based on real events, a story of murder set in the South Pacific before the First World War.
It is 1906 and Will Prior is in self-imposed exile on a remote South Pacific island, working a small, and failing, plantation.
He should never have told anyone about his previous existence as a military foot policeman in the Boer War, but a man needs friends, even if they are as stuffy and, well, German, as Hauptmann Kessler, the local government representative.
So it is that Kessler approaches Will one hot afternoon, with a request for his help with a problem on a neighbouring island, inhabited by a reclusive, cultish group of European’cocovores’, who believe that sun worship and eating only coconuts will bring them eternal life.
Unfortunately, one of their number has died in suspicious circumstances, and Kessler has been tasked with uncovering the real reason for his demise. So along with a’lady traveller’, Bessie Pullen-Burry, who is foisted on them by the archipelago’s eccentric owner, they travel to the island of Kabakon, to find out what is really going on.
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I read the translation by Ken Follett titled Under the Streets of Nice.
Based on the true story of the break-in into a Société Générale bank in Nice, France 1976.
At the time it was the biggest heist in history.
In the book the leader of the ragtag band was Albert Spaggiari. A larger than life character.
For example, Spaggiari contacted the CIA bragging that he was the brains behind the bank robbery. Offering to work for the Americans in their future clandestine break-ins.
After finally getting caught, the ringleader escaped to Argentina becoming something of a folk hero in popular culture.
He died of lung cancer on 8 June 1989.
In truth stranger than fiction, the incompetence of the French police was unbelievable.
Another hit book from Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen.
Highly recommended if you like psychological thrillers.
Witnessing a suicide proves almost fatal for the witness herself.
Shay Miller would not have been on that subway platform had she not taken the 22 seconds required to tie up her ponytail.
Because she did, she is the sole witness to a suicide that changes her life.
But is she stalking the friends of the dead girl, or are they stalking her?
It seems to be both, as Hendricks and Pekkanen (An Anonymous Girl, 2019) unfold another one of their intricately plotted, female-focused thrillers. …
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The two authors seem incompatible. But they certainly work well together.
Many young men, including myself, are influenced by Ayn Rand, a flawed human being. No doubt. I doubt I could have lasted 5 minutes of her chain smoking harshness.
Not a particularly good writer.
But her her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, introduced many to a philosophical system she called Objectivism:
We joked that Randian economic policy would be to SHOOT the UNEMPLOYED.
Academic philosophers have mostly ignored or rejected Rand’s philosophy. But it’s been embraced by some Libertarians and American conservatives. Also, impressionable young men.
Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella in an unspecified future date. The concept of individuality has been eliminated.
A young man known as Equality 7-2521 rebels by doing secret scientific research. When his activity is discovered, he flees into the wilderness with the girl he loves. Together they plan to establish a new society based on rediscovered individualism.
Anthem is hilariously simplistic. But I can see it as a precursor to The Fountainhead.
related – We is a dystopian book by Soviet dissident Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920–1921.
The novel describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state.
It is believed that the novel had a huge influence on the works of Orwell and Huxley, as well as on the emergence of the genre of dystopia.
Elan Mastai is a writer and producer on the Emmy-winning TV series “This Is Us”.
All Our Wrong Todays his first novel. I’m sure it will be turned into a film.
There are some things I quite liked about this book. And many things I didn’t. It’s an odd book — written as a casual memoir.
Tom Barren lives in a alternative universe to our own. A techno-utopia. Unlimited clean power supply. Flying cars.
Unfortunately Tom makes a rash decision that drastically changes not only his own life, but the very fabric of the universe itself.
In a time-travel mishap, Tom finds himself stranded in our 2016, what we think of as the real world. For Tom, our normal reality seems like a dystopian wasteland.
Time travel is near impossible to story logically. In fact, one story line is the impossibility of time travel.
I’ve never really got into short stories. Nor Chekhov.
But I was convinced by Phillip Pullman that this short story is a masterpiece.
You can listen to it on The Guardian.
Chekhov’s genius lies in the way he manages to convey with such apparent effortlessness a profound sense of the mystery of beauty, and of the sadness of those who observe and think. The narrator of this apparently inconsequential tale fixes on exactly the right details, from a myriad of possible ones, to strike at the heart. It’s a masterpiece of minimalism.
A schoolboy is accompanying his grandfather as they drive in their carriage along a dusty road across the steppe on a sultry August day. They stop for refreshment at the house of an Armenian friend of the grandfather. The boy, the grandfather and their Ukrainian driver are all struck by the beauty of the Armenian’s daughter.
Some years later, now a student, the boy is on a train that stops for some minutes at a country station. He gets out to stretch his legs, and sees a girl on the platform talking to someone in one of the carriages. She is very beautiful.
It’s about as spare and empty of plot as a story could be; two impressions that barely even amount to anecdote.
Like Waiting for Godot, it’s a story in which nothing happens, twice
Who has not fallen in love at first glance of a stranger?
Rick McCharles 