Missive #240 Published 14 March 2024
A good book but not as good as the author's historical fiction. There is one more in his Sailing Thrillers series and then I'll be going back to what he does best.
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Missive #239 Published 12 March 2024
Science, Liberty and Peace is an essay written by Aldous Huxley, published in 1946. The essay is an opinionated discussion covering a wide range of subjects reflecting Huxley's views towards society at that time. He puts forward a number of predictions, many of which turned out to be true up to 60 years later. A consistent theme throughout the essay is Huxley's preference towards a decentralised society.
Missive #238 Published 11 March 2024
1677, on a late summer's evening two ships lurk off the coast of southwest Ireland. They are Barbary corsairs from North Africa, slave catchers. As soon as it is dark, their landing parties row ashore to raid a small fishing village — on the hunt for fresh prey…
In the village, seventeen-year-old Hector Lynch wakes to the sound of a pistol shot. Moments later he and his sister Elizabeth are taken prisoner.
Missive #236 Published 8 March 2024
25. NASRUDDIN AND THE OCEAN…
This book was published in 1954 so it is dated even with the Afterword by his wife, Ruth M. White, in 1967 and a Postscript in 1976 it is still dated. However, the history is well worth reading and the geography has not changed. A good book for anyone that knows nothing about the Adirondacks.
Missive #235 Published 6 March 2024
This is a good book but if you have read The 'Men Who Made the Nation' it is probably not necessary that you read this one. The author wrote 'The Men Who Made the Nation' for the Mainstream of America Series and then wrote this one so his publisher could garner some additional sales.
Missive #234 Published 5 March 2024
Based on real events of 400 years past [The Steel Bonnets read 24 March 2023], this is a vivid depiction of the terror and brutality of life on the Anglo-Scottish Border. To the young Lady Margaret Dacre, raised in the rich security of Queen Elizabeth's court, the Scottish Border is a land of blood and violence, where her inheritance lay at the mercy of the outlaws and feuding tribes of England's last frontier.
Missive #232 Published 2 March 2024
First published in 1940, James Still's masterful novel has become a classic. It is the story, seen through the eyes of a boy, of three years in the life of his family and their kin. He sees his parents pulled between the meager farm with its sense of independence and the mining camp with its uncertain promise of material prosperity.
Missive #230 Published 29 February 2024
This is an interesting book but in my opinion is muddled . He moves the chronology around such that I found it difficult to keep track of when events were happening. There does not seem to be any continuity to an overall story; each of the '21 laws' stand alone for the most part. I may try some of his other books.
Missive #229 Published 28 February 2024
A week in the life of a 22-year-old grifter in the Hamptons.
Cline does pretty-but-creepy like no one else and now takes her brand of alluring ickiness to the wealthy enclaves of Long Island (the location is unnamed but clearly recognizable) in the last week of summer. We meet Alex swimming in the ocean, high on painkillers she's stolen from her man of the moment, a "civilian" named Simon who doesn't know Alex is a working girl and who has invited her to spend the month of August at his place "out east."
Missive #228 Published 27 February 2024
It not very common that a physician practicing both pediatrics and general medicine would also be a poet and novelist. However, that is what Williams was, he also served as the Passaic General Hospital's chief of pediatrics from 1924 until his death. I'll be reading the rest of this trilogy just to see what happens to Flossie.
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