What I read and watched back then. A snapshot of my reading life.
Third time's the charm. This is Stoney Calhoun's third adventure, and Tapply finally pulls back the curtain on our favorite fishing guide's shadowy past. Just when Stoney's drowning in problems, enter: The Man in the Suit. A ghost from yesterday offering what looks like salvation...
A writer (Nicolas Duvauchelle) who abandoned literary novels for trashy-but-lucrative stuff decides to write an "unauthorized" bio of Lena Weber (Catherine Deneuve), star TV news anchor. He worms his way into her inner circle. You can guess where this goes.
A "creative documentary" class in Chicago. The professor, Russell Stone, is there almost by accident. This pale, depressive pessimist who glides through life avoiding walls and emotions alike immediately notices pretty Thassa Amzwar in his class...
1968, Dagenham. Ford's biggest European factory: 55,000 workers, including 189 women. Their job? Sewing car seat covers. When they protest the new classification system that downgrades them even further, things explode...
The fifties. A logging camp in northern New Hampshire, on the banks of Twisted River—named for its wide meanders that turn vicious when the snow melts. "In autumn, you cut the trees. In winter, you haul them. In spring, the river takes them." Simple, brutal life.
Leiloona's blogger radio is back with a spring playlist full of "songs that give us energy, songs that make our butts move, songs that make us want to dance right there in our living rooms." Yeah, I contributed. Spring needs a soundtrack.
This novel digs into a little-known episode from Michelangelo's life (one that doesn't even appear on his Wikipedia page). May 1506: Michelangelo, already famous from his David, gets invited to Constantinople by Sultan Bayazid to build a bridge...
Meditation gets practiced a lot by Buddhists, and this author happens to be a Buddhist monk, but this book isn't about religion at all. I came to meditation through Qi Gong myself, not religion. Different paths, same destination.
Peter Ackroyd writes biographies and novels, loves mixing genres—building fiction around historical figures. Here he draws from Heinrich Schliemann's life, the guy who discovered mythical Troy in 1874. Genius to some, fraud to others...
Three sisters. The Brelan sisters. Like in poker—three of a kind. They just lost their father. Since their mother died years ago, they're orphans now. Family council and judges will decide who gets custody. Nobody's happy about this.