Sophie, nee Barbara, grew up in Blackpool with her father. Her mother ran away with another man when she was young and it wasn’t long before she came to idolize Lucille Ball and I Love Lucy. Everything she did took her one step closer out of the stifling seaside town. Her first few months in London were disheartening and she had started considering actually giving up and going back when she met the man who would become her agent. When she auditions one day for a […]
Eventually always becomes inevitably
Mark Genevich the narcoleptic private investigator is back! This book picks up a while after the events in The Little Sleep. The notoriety surrounding the last case has died down and the damage from the fire has been repaired. But Mark and his mom, Ellen, are on the outs. She has demanded that he get group counseling if he wants to stay in the building and continue to work as a PI. As you can imagine, Mark isn’t exactly taking the therapy to heart. He’s mucked up […]
That’s what courage is: dumbass perseverance
My head is a little splodey right now, thanks to this book and the totally incongruous book I read just before it. Mark Genevich and Flavia de Luce couldn’t be any more different and it’s all got my head spinning a bit. But in a good way. Really. Mark Genevich is a PI in Southie, but he’s not your father’s smartass fast talking hustler. Due to a devastating accident that killed his best friend, Mark survived with a restructured face and traumatic brain injury and suffers […]
silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities
Oh, Flavia! It’s been a few years since I first discovered this series by Alan Bradley. I read the first three or four then life and a myriad of other books encroached. Recently I was out in the world with only my kindle (I was traveling light) and had finished the current read and needed to trawl my library for something and realized I had the entire series. Saved! This novel, set in the small village of Bishop’s Lacey in 1950, introduces Flavia de Luce, a 10-year-old […]
a destiny unveiled
“All these people: they were trapped. And not merely by the wires that surrounded them. Physical barricades were nothing compared to the wires of the mind. What had truly imprisoned them was one another. Husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and companions: what they believed had given them strength in their lives had actually done the opposite…..Love had sealed their doom.” The second book in Justin Cronin’s trilogy picks up five years after the end of the last novel, to the summer of 97 AV, […]