Review of IF YOU ONLY KNEW HOW MUCH I SMELL YOU - by Roy Blount
The poetry in this book not written by a person per se, but by a dog -- and maybe sometimes a dog's poetry does not rhyme – but at least it comes from his heart. Roy Blount, Jr., the author behind the dogs' poetry, even explains as much in the introduction. This book is about dogs and their poetry.
Because of this, the book becomes even more enjoyable. The reader can look at the magnificent photos and read the poetry that that dog wrote for it. The dog's poetry is a "canine measure of somewhere between ordered and free," which shows the inner workings of all dogs. As in the poem, "Good Stick," you know exactly how the dog feels about his stick because – the dog itself wrote the poem. Dogs converse on baths, expensive shoes, treats – everything that is important to them. But the title of the book sums it up perfectly. Who wouldn't look at their dog (who may or may not have done something naughty) and find him replying, "If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You."
This is a great book for any dog lover.
Tuesday, April 29, 2003
From the Victorian Digest - the silent Victorian women writers:
"Subject: Silent Voices
Now available through Praeger (www.praeger.com: 0-313-32462-X) and
Amazon.com:
Silent Voices: Forgotten Novels by Victorian Women Writers, ed.
Brenda Ayres.
Contents: Miriam Burstein's "'Not the Superiority of
Belief, But Superiority of True Devotion': Grace Aguilar's Histories of
the Spirit," Cecilia Wadsö Lecaros' "The Victorian Heroine Goes
A-Governessing," Lucy Sussex's "The Detective Maidservant: Catherine
Crowe's Susan Hopley," Mary Lenard's "Deathbeds and Didacticism: Charlotte
Elizabeth Tonna and Victorian," Sueann Schatz's "Class Counts: The
Domestic-Professional Writer, the Working Poor and Middle-Class Values in
The Years That the Locust Hath Eaten and The Story of a Modern Woman,"
LeeAnne Richardson's "On the Face of the Waters: Flora Annie Steel and the
Politics of Feminist Imperialism," Helen Debenham's "Re-reading the
Domestic Novel: Anne Thackeray's The Story of Elizabeth," Jennifer Stolpa's
"'I am not Esther': Biblical Heroines and Sarah Grand's Challenge to
Institutional Christianity in The Heavenly Twins," Robyn Chandler's "Dinah
Mulock Craik: Sacrifice and the Fairy-order," and Brenda Ayres' "Marie
Corelli: 'The Story of One Forgotten'."
"Subject: Silent Voices
Now available through Praeger (www.praeger.com: 0-313-32462-X) and
Amazon.com:
Silent Voices: Forgotten Novels by Victorian Women Writers, ed.
Brenda Ayres.
Contents: Miriam Burstein's "'Not the Superiority of
Belief, But Superiority of True Devotion': Grace Aguilar's Histories of
the Spirit," Cecilia Wadsö Lecaros' "The Victorian Heroine Goes
A-Governessing," Lucy Sussex's "The Detective Maidservant: Catherine
Crowe's Susan Hopley," Mary Lenard's "Deathbeds and Didacticism: Charlotte
Elizabeth Tonna and Victorian," Sueann Schatz's "Class Counts: The
Domestic-Professional Writer, the Working Poor and Middle-Class Values in
The Years That the Locust Hath Eaten and The Story of a Modern Woman,"
LeeAnne Richardson's "On the Face of the Waters: Flora Annie Steel and the
Politics of Feminist Imperialism," Helen Debenham's "Re-reading the
Domestic Novel: Anne Thackeray's The Story of Elizabeth," Jennifer Stolpa's
"'I am not Esther': Biblical Heroines and Sarah Grand's Challenge to
Institutional Christianity in The Heavenly Twins," Robyn Chandler's "Dinah
Mulock Craik: Sacrifice and the Fairy-order," and Brenda Ayres' "Marie
Corelli: 'The Story of One Forgotten'."
A new book about one of my favorite authors reviewed in the:
Washington Post
Reviewed by Edwin M. Yoder Jr.
Sunday, April 27, 2003; Page BW10
SHELBY FOOTE
A Writer's Life
By C. Stuart Chapman
Univ. Press of Mississippi. 317 pp. $30
"A sympathetic grasp of the South in all its variety, as well as a sense of the limitations of present-mindedness, should be a prerequisite for writing about a figure like Shelby Foote. Analysis has its place, but when you're dealing with a great storyteller, the key is integer vitae: wholeness, of life and art."
Washington Post
Reviewed by Edwin M. Yoder Jr.
Sunday, April 27, 2003; Page BW10
SHELBY FOOTE
A Writer's Life
By C. Stuart Chapman
Univ. Press of Mississippi. 317 pp. $30
"A sympathetic grasp of the South in all its variety, as well as a sense of the limitations of present-mindedness, should be a prerequisite for writing about a figure like Shelby Foote. Analysis has its place, but when you're dealing with a great storyteller, the key is integer vitae: wholeness, of life and art."
Friday, April 25, 2003
Additional Information about:
Another Site from Yahoo! Groups : mostlyfiction
Newsletter for MostlyFiction.com, a site that features book recommendations and book reviews, free chapter excerpts and a chance to win the latest books in monthly raffles. Selected novels range from very recently published to all time favorites. Bookshelves include Contemporary Fiction, Latin American, The Wild West, Around the World, Detective Series, Mystery/Suspense, Spy/Thriller, Science Fiction and Humorous Fiction.
Also some True Adventure! Author bibliographies are listed in chronological order and each includes brief biographies as well as links to other reviews and related tid-bits. This is good site for students and book clubs or anyone who loves to read a wide range of fiction.
Please visit this Mostly Fiction
Another Site from Yahoo! Groups : mostlyfiction
Newsletter for MostlyFiction.com, a site that features book recommendations and book reviews, free chapter excerpts and a chance to win the latest books in monthly raffles. Selected novels range from very recently published to all time favorites. Bookshelves include Contemporary Fiction, Latin American, The Wild West, Around the World, Detective Series, Mystery/Suspense, Spy/Thriller, Science Fiction and Humorous Fiction.
Also some True Adventure! Author bibliographies are listed in chronological order and each includes brief biographies as well as links to other reviews and related tid-bits. This is good site for students and book clubs or anyone who loves to read a wide range of fiction.
Please visit this Mostly Fiction
From the Book and Writing Group at Yahoo Groups:
Hey everyone, my new monthly column, Cold Case Investigations is now up at
Readers Room, here's the addy:
Readers Room / Cold Case
Every month I'll profile a different unsolve homicide, one that hasn't
received much media attention. Feel free to check it out.
Tim Miller
WITHOUT A TRACE--(Flying Dolphin Press May/June 2003)2002 Dorothy Parker
Award Honorable Mention
Hey everyone, my new monthly column, Cold Case Investigations is now up at
Readers Room, here's the addy:
Readers Room / Cold Case
Every month I'll profile a different unsolve homicide, one that hasn't
received much media attention. Feel free to check it out.
Tim Miller
WITHOUT A TRACE--(Flying Dolphin Press May/June 2003)2002 Dorothy Parker
Award Honorable Mention
Thursday, April 24, 2003
Review of Second Chance by James Patterson
I never thought James Patterson could write in a woman's voice, but he done so with Second Chance and succeeded. Second Chance is the second book in his series, Women's Murder Club. There is a big difference between this series and the Alex Cross series, but with Patterson's mastery of writing it, he has created another great series in its own right.
Lindsay Boxer is back, albeit somewhat bitter and disillusioned, but with the onset of what looks to be a new serial murder spree, she is ready, along with the rest of her cohorts, to find out who is murdering African Americans with contacts to her own police department.
The chapters are short but pithy, each leaving you with a desire to read the next, and the next, and so on.
I never thought James Patterson could write in a woman's voice, but he done so with Second Chance and succeeded. Second Chance is the second book in his series, Women's Murder Club. There is a big difference between this series and the Alex Cross series, but with Patterson's mastery of writing it, he has created another great series in its own right.
Lindsay Boxer is back, albeit somewhat bitter and disillusioned, but with the onset of what looks to be a new serial murder spree, she is ready, along with the rest of her cohorts, to find out who is murdering African Americans with contacts to her own police department.
The chapters are short but pithy, each leaving you with a desire to read the next, and the next, and so on.
Monday, April 21, 2003
Thursday, April 17, 2003
Another Literature quiz:
You're Fiction!
What type of literature are you?
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You're Fiction!
What type of literature are you?
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Two new great new lit. sites:
The Republic of Pemberley - everything about Jane Austen and her works, plus some.
Pepys' Diary - Samuel Pepys' Diary online.
The Republic of Pemberley - everything about Jane Austen and her works, plus some.
Pepys' Diary - Samuel Pepys' Diary online.
Great new crime novel from Stephen Booth - reviewed in the current January magazine.
. . .Stephen Booth's first novel, Black Dog, reached bookstores only two years ago, and he's already racked up a Barry Award win, a Macallan Gold Dagger nomination from Britain's Crime Writers' Association and enough approbatory buzz on both sides of the Atlantic to ensure that he won't be able to enjoy any extended holidays away from his computer for years to come.
Blood on the Tongue proves the sagacity of [a] career change. Like its predecessors, this absorbing new work follows an odd police couple -- the congenitally empathetic Detective Constable Ben Cooper and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry, his attractive yet designedly severe superior -- based in the East Midlands town of Edendale. With winter closing hard over their scenic region, and with many officers of "E" Division out of commission as a result, Cooper, Fry and their curious colleagues are especially taxed in trying to solve a medley of knotty puzzles: the freezing deaths of a man found on a roadside and an abused woman curled up on nearby Irontongue Hill, as well as the very cold case of a Royal Air Force (RAF) bomber that crashed into Irontongue back in 1945, killing everyone on board except for the pilot, who reportedly walked away from the wreckage ... and was never heard from again. Cooper finds himself drawn to the World War II tragedy, in large part because of Alison Morrisey, a beguiling young Canadian and the granddaughter of that missing pilot, who's come to Derbyshire determined to clear her ancestor's name. Fry is frustrated in her efforts to concentrate Cooper's attention on the modern crimes; but as it becomes evident that these various mysteries are linked, she and Cooper both search for proof that deceptions from the past have led to death in the present.
If it is anything like Black Dog, it should be great.
. . .Stephen Booth's first novel, Black Dog, reached bookstores only two years ago, and he's already racked up a Barry Award win, a Macallan Gold Dagger nomination from Britain's Crime Writers' Association and enough approbatory buzz on both sides of the Atlantic to ensure that he won't be able to enjoy any extended holidays away from his computer for years to come.
Blood on the Tongue proves the sagacity of [a] career change. Like its predecessors, this absorbing new work follows an odd police couple -- the congenitally empathetic Detective Constable Ben Cooper and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry, his attractive yet designedly severe superior -- based in the East Midlands town of Edendale. With winter closing hard over their scenic region, and with many officers of "E" Division out of commission as a result, Cooper, Fry and their curious colleagues are especially taxed in trying to solve a medley of knotty puzzles: the freezing deaths of a man found on a roadside and an abused woman curled up on nearby Irontongue Hill, as well as the very cold case of a Royal Air Force (RAF) bomber that crashed into Irontongue back in 1945, killing everyone on board except for the pilot, who reportedly walked away from the wreckage ... and was never heard from again. Cooper finds himself drawn to the World War II tragedy, in large part because of Alison Morrisey, a beguiling young Canadian and the granddaughter of that missing pilot, who's come to Derbyshire determined to clear her ancestor's name. Fry is frustrated in her efforts to concentrate Cooper's attention on the modern crimes; but as it becomes evident that these various mysteries are linked, she and Cooper both search for proof that deceptions from the past have led to death in the present.
If it is anything like Black Dog, it should be great.
Monday, April 14, 2003
SimonSays.com sent me a list of these new current books. I think the Song Reader sounds the best.
IRISH GIRLS ABOUT TOWN
By Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes and Cathy Kelly
THE MAN I SHOULD HAVE MARRIED
By Pamela Redmond Satran
GETTING OVER JACK WAGNER
By Elise Juska
THE SONG READER
By Lisa Tucker
IRISH GIRLS ABOUT TOWN
By Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes and Cathy Kelly
THE MAN I SHOULD HAVE MARRIED
By Pamela Redmond Satran
GETTING OVER JACK WAGNER
By Elise Juska
THE SONG READER
By Lisa Tucker
Friday, April 11, 2003
Book of the Week:
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed
This book is definitely the definitive answer the Jack the Ripper murder mystery. Cornwell provides enough secondary evidence to convict Jack the Ripper even in this day and age. Too bad, they didn't have her back then. Great book.
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed
This book is definitely the definitive answer the Jack the Ripper murder mystery. Cornwell provides enough secondary evidence to convict Jack the Ripper even in this day and age. Too bad, they didn't have her back then. Great book.
Thursday, April 10, 2003
From the New York Times:
For the last couple of months, Amazon.com's Web pages have randomly sprouted hilariously easy sets of multiple-choice questions that spotlight the breadth of Amazon's offerings. For example: "How many men's hats and accessories can you find in our Apparel & Accessories Store?" Your choices:
(a) Over 200.
(b) One — and it has rhinestones.
(c) Amazon.com has an Apparel Store?
Each time you get an answer right, Amazon credits your account with a nickel.
The idea of paying you to look at its message is a winner. Sure, TV ads or radio sponsors are, in effect, paying you to look at their messages, too, but somehow getting the payment in cash is an exciting twist.
But there's a much greater significance to Amazon's "win a nickel" promotion: It's so witty, and so cleverly presented, you actually want to participate. Amazon doesn't try to conceal the fact that it's trying to sell you on its message. In fact, the grinning transparency of that effort is what makes it so much fun.
Memo to TV executives who worry about the ad-skipping functions of boxes like TiVo and ReplayTV: If the ads are clever enough, people won't skip over
Oh dear, I bet I buy more books!
For the last couple of months, Amazon.com's Web pages have randomly sprouted hilariously easy sets of multiple-choice questions that spotlight the breadth of Amazon's offerings. For example: "How many men's hats and accessories can you find in our Apparel & Accessories Store?" Your choices:
(a) Over 200.
(b) One — and it has rhinestones.
(c) Amazon.com has an Apparel Store?
Each time you get an answer right, Amazon credits your account with a nickel.
The idea of paying you to look at its message is a winner. Sure, TV ads or radio sponsors are, in effect, paying you to look at their messages, too, but somehow getting the payment in cash is an exciting twist.
But there's a much greater significance to Amazon's "win a nickel" promotion: It's so witty, and so cleverly presented, you actually want to participate. Amazon doesn't try to conceal the fact that it's trying to sell you on its message. In fact, the grinning transparency of that effort is what makes it so much fun.
Memo to TV executives who worry about the ad-skipping functions of boxes like TiVo and ReplayTV: If the ads are clever enough, people won't skip over
Oh dear, I bet I buy more books!
Tuesday, April 08, 2003
I just found by accident a web site wherein the readers do the review. Sort of like Amazon. It is:
Footle
They say on the web site:
We're an index of book, film, web and music reviews written by our users. The idea is simple; you read a book, you come here and write a review. Other people are doing the same, and through super-duper community cooperation and lots of clicking we can work out what's hot and what's not.
I am going to look more in it - for sure.
Footle
They say on the web site:
We're an index of book, film, web and music reviews written by our users. The idea is simple; you read a book, you come here and write a review. Other people are doing the same, and through super-duper community cooperation and lots of clicking we can work out what's hot and what's not.
I am going to look more in it - for sure.
A very interesting article on Laura Ingalls Wilder's book Little House on the Prairie was in the current issue of Common Place. She discusses seeing the book as a child versus seeing it as an adult.
Monday, April 07, 2003
New Irish Fiction from "Read Ireland":
Missing by Mary Stanley
(Paperback; 11.00 Euro / 12.50 USD / 8.50 UK)
John and Elizabeth Dunville believe they have the ideal family. Their three daughters - beautiful, vivacious Baby; clever, industrious Becky; and lively, if mischievous Brona - attend Dublin's most prestigious convent school, and all have bright futures. But denial and deception go hand in hand, and one night, one of the girls slips out into the winter fog, and doesn't come home … This is a perceptive and poignant novel exploring the ramifications of loss and abandonment with compassion and a wry wit.
Missing by Mary Stanley
(Paperback; 11.00 Euro / 12.50 USD / 8.50 UK)
John and Elizabeth Dunville believe they have the ideal family. Their three daughters - beautiful, vivacious Baby; clever, industrious Becky; and lively, if mischievous Brona - attend Dublin's most prestigious convent school, and all have bright futures. But denial and deception go hand in hand, and one night, one of the girls slips out into the winter fog, and doesn't come home … This is a perceptive and poignant novel exploring the ramifications of loss and abandonment with compassion and a wry wit.
Friday, April 04, 2003
Thursday, April 03, 2003
I read an early copy of this book. It is great. I rate it a 9.
WILLEM'S FIELD, by Melinda Haynes
Simon Says the following:
Melinda Haynes' debut, MOTHER OF PEARL, was an Oprah Book Club selection, and her latest is a loving, original portrait of small-town life. Willem Fremont returns to his hometown to change his life...and ends up a part of the odd, unsettled lives he finds there. Imaginative and moving.
WILLEM'S FIELD, by Melinda Haynes
Simon Says the following:
Melinda Haynes' debut, MOTHER OF PEARL, was an Oprah Book Club selection, and her latest is a loving, original portrait of small-town life. Willem Fremont returns to his hometown to change his life...and ends up a part of the odd, unsettled lives he finds there. Imaginative and moving.
Wednesday, April 02, 2003
From Today in Literature:
On this day in 1861, George Eliot's "Silas Marner" was published.
Though generally viewed as one of Eliot's minor works, it was as
popular among readers when it came out as her earlier "Adam Bede"
and "The Mill on the Floss."; the book has also attracted
attention for the parallel found between the old weaver's life of
misery and redemption and Eliot's own. From chapter one:
It was fifteen years since Silas Marner had first come
to Raveloe; he was then simply a pallid young man, with
prominent, short-sighted brown eyes, whose appearance
would have had nothing strange for people of average
culture and experience, but for the villagers near
whom he had come to settle it had mysterious
peculiarities. . . .
To read the full article, please visit:
Today in Literature
On this day in 1861, George Eliot's "Silas Marner" was published.
Though generally viewed as one of Eliot's minor works, it was as
popular among readers when it came out as her earlier "Adam Bede"
and "The Mill on the Floss."; the book has also attracted
attention for the parallel found between the old weaver's life of
misery and redemption and Eliot's own. From chapter one:
It was fifteen years since Silas Marner had first come
to Raveloe; he was then simply a pallid young man, with
prominent, short-sighted brown eyes, whose appearance
would have had nothing strange for people of average
culture and experience, but for the villagers near
whom he had come to settle it had mysterious
peculiarities. . . .
To read the full article, please visit:
Today in Literature
Tuesday, April 01, 2003
From Read Ireland Book Review - some gothic, some mystery,
some romance - all in Ireland:
The Parts by Keith Ridgway
(Trade Paperback; 18.50 Euro / 21.00 USD / 15.00 UK;
Faber, 455 pages)
In her mansion in the Dublin Mountains, Delly Roche, widow of pharmaceuticals millionaire Daniel Gilmore, is getting ready for death. Keeping her company are her companions of many years, Kitty Flood and the discreetly insane Dr. George Addison-Blake. Why is Delly so keen to die? What exactly is in the letter discovered by Kitty? What is Dr. George doing in the shed by the overgrown
tennis court? And does any of it have anything to do with the conspiracy theories hinted at on Joe Kavanagh's radio show? Down in the city, Barry Joe's producer, is getting caught up in something and he's not quite sure what. Meanwhile Joe is trying desperately to lose his foothold on life and is succeeding only in annoying his neighbours. And all the time, conducting business down
by the river, doing his best to keep out of this, is Kez.
-----------------
The Day of the Dead by John Creed
(Trade Paperback; 18.50 Euro / 21.00 USD / 15.00 UK; Faber, 245 pages)
The newest Jack Valentine thriller, a deadly chase stretching from one end of New York to Mexico and culminating in incandescent conflict in the searing and pitiless uplands of central Mexico. Jack Valentine thinks he is finished with the covert life but the covert life is not finished with him. The assignment seems straightforward. An old friend's daughter, Alva Casagrande, has been sucked into what looks like a minor league Manhattan heroin vortex and Jack is persuaded to go there to pull her out. Simple enough, until the old friend is fighting for his life courtesy of a kilo of Semtex in the wheel arch of his car. Two days later Jack is in New York calling on old friendships and provoking ancient hatreds. He realises that the little girl's Mexican partner is as wealthy and hard-wired as they come and also that his friend's daughter carries a punch herself. The agenda is drugs on a large scale and Jack is fixed for a descent into hell.
-----------------------------------------
The Sirius Crossing by John Creed
(Paperback; 11.00 Euro / 12.50 USD / 8.50 UK; Faber, 250 pages)
This book is a tense, gripping and intelligent thriller - the first in the Jack Valentine series - from one of Ireland's finest writers. Jack Valentine has been in the intelligence game too long and it is starting to show, but he accepts one more mission. He always does. It seems like a simple task but it throws up deadly questions and he doesn't know the answers. What were American Special Forces doing in Ireland twenty-five years ago and why does it matter now? What is the thread, which leads from a deserted mountainside to the offices of the White House? Valentine no longer knows which threatens him most - the dark alliance of men who want to kill him or his own dangerous cynicism.
-----------------------------------------
Rosemary by Margaret Kaine
(Paperback; 11.00 Euro / 12.50 USD / 8.50 UK; Poolbeg, 479 pages)
For three women - Rosemary, her mother Beth and grandmother Rose - a single phone call ends years of heartbreak and regret. For Rosemary, alone and determined to find her roots, it is the end of a search begun when she first held her birth certificate, staring in bewilderment at the heading: Certified Copy of Entry from Adopted Children's Register. But the end of one journey is the beginning of another - one that brings both romance and the nightmare truth about her conception. Rosemary has sprung from tough soil: the clay of North Staffordshire where her ancestors have worked in The Potteries for generations. Yet will she have the strength to endure what she is about to discover?
Why Do Fools Fall in Love? By Louise Marley
(Paperback; 11.00 Euro / 12.50 USD / 8.50 UK; Poolbeg, 453 pages)
When Shelby Roberts is forced to resign from the police, her new job - three weeks on location in a 5-star hotel looking after dangerously hunky actor Luke McFadden - doesn't look so bad at all. Well, just how much trouble can one actor get into? But spoilt Luke is outraged at being lumbered with a bodyguard. Outrage soon turns to intrigue and before long Luke is crazy about Shelby. But has he left it too late? Shelby fancies mean and moody director Ross Whitnes, but Luke's co-star Courtney has her own plans for him. When Luke's ex-fiancee Paige comes back on the scene, and a stalker makes his presence felt, passions continue to rise long after the cameras stop rolling.
To order books from the Read Ireland Book Review - send an email to our order department at: ri-orders@readireland.ie. Please be sure to include your mailing address and credit card details.
some romance - all in Ireland:
The Parts by Keith Ridgway
(Trade Paperback; 18.50 Euro / 21.00 USD / 15.00 UK;
Faber, 455 pages)
In her mansion in the Dublin Mountains, Delly Roche, widow of pharmaceuticals millionaire Daniel Gilmore, is getting ready for death. Keeping her company are her companions of many years, Kitty Flood and the discreetly insane Dr. George Addison-Blake. Why is Delly so keen to die? What exactly is in the letter discovered by Kitty? What is Dr. George doing in the shed by the overgrown
tennis court? And does any of it have anything to do with the conspiracy theories hinted at on Joe Kavanagh's radio show? Down in the city, Barry Joe's producer, is getting caught up in something and he's not quite sure what. Meanwhile Joe is trying desperately to lose his foothold on life and is succeeding only in annoying his neighbours. And all the time, conducting business down
by the river, doing his best to keep out of this, is Kez.
-----------------
The Day of the Dead by John Creed
(Trade Paperback; 18.50 Euro / 21.00 USD / 15.00 UK; Faber, 245 pages)
The newest Jack Valentine thriller, a deadly chase stretching from one end of New York to Mexico and culminating in incandescent conflict in the searing and pitiless uplands of central Mexico. Jack Valentine thinks he is finished with the covert life but the covert life is not finished with him. The assignment seems straightforward. An old friend's daughter, Alva Casagrande, has been sucked into what looks like a minor league Manhattan heroin vortex and Jack is persuaded to go there to pull her out. Simple enough, until the old friend is fighting for his life courtesy of a kilo of Semtex in the wheel arch of his car. Two days later Jack is in New York calling on old friendships and provoking ancient hatreds. He realises that the little girl's Mexican partner is as wealthy and hard-wired as they come and also that his friend's daughter carries a punch herself. The agenda is drugs on a large scale and Jack is fixed for a descent into hell.
-----------------------------------------
The Sirius Crossing by John Creed
(Paperback; 11.00 Euro / 12.50 USD / 8.50 UK; Faber, 250 pages)
This book is a tense, gripping and intelligent thriller - the first in the Jack Valentine series - from one of Ireland's finest writers. Jack Valentine has been in the intelligence game too long and it is starting to show, but he accepts one more mission. He always does. It seems like a simple task but it throws up deadly questions and he doesn't know the answers. What were American Special Forces doing in Ireland twenty-five years ago and why does it matter now? What is the thread, which leads from a deserted mountainside to the offices of the White House? Valentine no longer knows which threatens him most - the dark alliance of men who want to kill him or his own dangerous cynicism.
-----------------------------------------
Rosemary by Margaret Kaine
(Paperback; 11.00 Euro / 12.50 USD / 8.50 UK; Poolbeg, 479 pages)
For three women - Rosemary, her mother Beth and grandmother Rose - a single phone call ends years of heartbreak and regret. For Rosemary, alone and determined to find her roots, it is the end of a search begun when she first held her birth certificate, staring in bewilderment at the heading: Certified Copy of Entry from Adopted Children's Register. But the end of one journey is the beginning of another - one that brings both romance and the nightmare truth about her conception. Rosemary has sprung from tough soil: the clay of North Staffordshire where her ancestors have worked in The Potteries for generations. Yet will she have the strength to endure what she is about to discover?
Why Do Fools Fall in Love? By Louise Marley
(Paperback; 11.00 Euro / 12.50 USD / 8.50 UK; Poolbeg, 453 pages)
When Shelby Roberts is forced to resign from the police, her new job - three weeks on location in a 5-star hotel looking after dangerously hunky actor Luke McFadden - doesn't look so bad at all. Well, just how much trouble can one actor get into? But spoilt Luke is outraged at being lumbered with a bodyguard. Outrage soon turns to intrigue and before long Luke is crazy about Shelby. But has he left it too late? Shelby fancies mean and moody director Ross Whitnes, but Luke's co-star Courtney has her own plans for him. When Luke's ex-fiancee Paige comes back on the scene, and a stalker makes his presence felt, passions continue to rise long after the cameras stop rolling.
To order books from the Read Ireland Book Review - send an email to our order department at: ri-orders@readireland.ie. Please be sure to include your mailing address and credit card details.
Another book for Dave:
The fourth in the Sarah Booth Delaney Misssissippi Delta Mystery Series (Splintered Bones, Buried Bones, Them Bones.)
Crossed Bones
by Carolyn Haines
The fourth in the Sarah Booth Delaney Misssissippi Delta Mystery Series (Splintered Bones, Buried Bones, Them Bones.)
Crossed Bones
by Carolyn Haines
CRESCENT BLUES
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fine and genre art, movies, television, music, trends and other popular
entertainments. Our beat includes mystery, science fiction and fantasy,
romance, mainstream and more. Our readers refuse to be pigeonholed and so
do we.
"Crescent Blues" covers fiction and non-fiction books and their writers,
fine and genre art, movies, television, music, trends and other popular
entertainments. Our beat includes mystery, science fiction and fantasy,
romance, mainstream and more. Our readers refuse to be pigeonholed and so
do we.
Must tell Dave --
LOST LIGHT
Harry Bosch returns in Michael Connelly's new novel, LOST LIGHT. This time around Harry's working on an old case but without an LAPD badge. This is the first Harry Bosch novel written in first person.
Michael Connelly Web Site
LOST LIGHT
Harry Bosch returns in Michael Connelly's new novel, LOST LIGHT. This time around Harry's working on an old case but without an LAPD badge. This is the first Harry Bosch novel written in first person.
Michael Connelly Web Site
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