This WWII survival story kept me at attention over the five page-turning days I read it (in case you aren’t impressed, that’s pretty fast for me). Lost in Shangri-La is the true story of how an army airplane crashed in New Guinea during World War II and the survivors encountered Stone Age cannabilistic tribes in their quest for survival. And besides surviving the plane crash and cannibals, there was the terrain, weather, injuries, gangrene, and the fact that Shangri-La was completely inaccessible to the outside […]
He warned us that he was an unreliable narrator
First off, I really enjoyed this book. Ms. French is smart and witty, with more than a little bit of gravel in her voice. Her prose is by turns clear and simple, then lyrical and dream-like. What I did not like was our narrator, Rob Ryan. What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass. Yeah, he warned us early on, but that still didn’t make me like him […]
Harry just cannot catch a break
The third Harry Hole novel and the first set in his native Oslo, has the downtrodden detective working security detail when the American president comes to Norway for peace talks. He’s still shambling and barely together, but his partner Ellen refuses to let him go completely off the rails. Then an unidentified figure with an automatic weapon turns up unexpectedly on the path Ellen and Harry are monitoring. They frantically try to get it confirmed that it’s Secret Service, but the president’s motorcade is seconds […]
Don’t Call Her A Legend
Betty Halbreich is who I want to end up being. She’s 86, no longer cares what anyone thinks, has 12 closets of gorgeous, classic clothing, and is the founder of Bergdorf-Goodman’s personal shopping service. I’ve been to BG once, was so intimated with how posh it is that I walked in one door and went right back out the next. I’m less dainty society woman and more bull in a china shop, but I love beautiful things. So does Betty, which is a big basis […]
Love the Player, Love the Game
I picked up The Game by Terry Schott off of Book Bub for free and expected it to be…well…awful because I’ve had a rough streak of free books, but I was pleasantly surprised instead. The Game is about a world (Tygon) where they send children and teens in a virtual reality simulation where the objective is to live long, happy and productive lives set on another planet (sounds boring but it’s trickier than it seems and there are “other” players in the game that work […]
Stranger Than Fiction – An Unflinching Memoir
I recall seeing a very passionate recommendation for this book in the comments section of a Pajiba movie review, and I ordered a while back, without a lot of thought. And I mention this only because it means I had no idea what this book was about, or what I was getting into. All I knew, I insinuated from the beautiful cover — a young woman on a beach, her pronounced indifference seemingly daring the photographer — and everyone else — to try to capture even one small […]
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