The Fugitive (2015) The Scandal (2016) The Accomplice (2019)
I enjoyed the first 4 books much more than the final three. Greatly amused by a 13-year-old boy who considers himself a Kid Lawyer.
5th in the series is The Fugitive. And it’s pretty good, actually.
On a Washington D.C school trip Theo spots Pete Duffy who had skipped town after his trial for murder ended in mistrial.
The Scandal was a dull plot concerning teachers manipulating exam scores to raise average grades for their school. Some kind of argument against standardized testing.
Last is The Accomplice. Didn’t really work for me.
This over-the-top video by Bashir Abu Shakra won the 2022 Skypixel Drone Grand Prize. It features some stunning footage from the Alps, Brazil, and Mongolia.
The Skin Collector (2014) is 11th in the series. And very good, as always.
A new type of serial killer is stalking the streets of New York …
… The Skin Collector: a tattooist with a chamber of torture hidden deep underground. But instead of using ink to create each masterpiece, the artist uses a lethal poison which will render targets dead before they can even entertain the prospect of escape . . .
Drafted in to investigate, NYPD detective Lincoln Rhyme and his associate Amelia Sachs have little to go on but a series of cryptic messages left etched into the skin of the deceased. …
Point Blanc is the second book in the Alex Rider series, written by British author Anthony Horowitz. The book was released in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2001 …
Weirdly, a teen is recruited by MI6 to infiltrate the Point Blanc Academy in the French Alps.
It’s something like a teen 007 saving the world through an incredible series of unlikely events.
Miley Cyrus created a new Backyard Sessions series and invited special musical guests to perform with her to make these music video collaborations.
The Happy Hippie Foundation is a nonprofit organization that rallies young people to fight injustice facing homeless youth, LGBT youth, and other vulnerable populations.
Miley invited Melanie in 2015 for a duet on her classic.
I tried a second book in the very popular Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths.
Well written. But not really my cup of tea.
Ruth is a forensic archaeologist who assists the police from time to time with investigations.
In this book she is the harried mother of a toddler, asked to investigate an archeological study that had been unearthed by a College friend. Close to Blackpool, England.
It appears he had been murdered, perhaps due to the nature of the dig.
The plot is interesting. But Ruth’s complaints and worries eventually began to wear on me.
I feel the GOP USA has only one overriding goal ➙ make the rich, richer.
To that end they don’t want to improve education, health care, nor raise the minimum wage.
Greedy Americans are why there’s so much poverty in the most affluent nation of the world.
Green River, Utah
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of Evicted, Matthew Desmond, reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.
The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy.
Why?
Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? …
We ate most of our meals at the house. One restaurant blowout was hosted at Zac’s.
The infamous mountain bike circuit is called Slickrock Trail. I survived it in 2007 and did NOT want to risk a second time. BUT some of our group cycled it safely. Jeni and I hiked Slickrock.
Rick McCharles 