One False Move by
Harland Corbin Myron Bolitar series has the unforgettable, smart mouth sports
agent agreeing to protect a top female basketball star. He has both a professional and personal
interest in Brenda but there is a chasm of corruption and lies, a vicious young
Mafioso on the make, and a secret that some people are dying to keep–and others
are killing to protect. The dialogue is crisp and engaging, but the conclusion
is a bit disappointing.
Suite Francaise by
Irene Nemirovsky tells the story of men and women thrown together in
frightening circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city,
human folly surfaces in every imaginable way. Nemirovsky was already a highly
successful writer living in Paris when she started the book but she was also a
Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz. The book
remained hidden and unfinished for 64
years. It is brilliant in places, but
would doubtless been better if she had lived to finish the work.
One Shot by Lee
Childs continues to chronicle the exploits of ex-military investigator Jack Reacher who is
called in by a man accused of a lethal sniper
attack on a heartland city. The evidence against him is (almost too)
overwhelming, but Reacher (picture Tom Cruise at 6’6” and 250 pounds) teams up with a
young defense attorney to find an unseen enemy who is manipulating events
behind the scenes. This isn’t great
literature but an engaging vacation diversion.
*Life After Life
by Jill McCorkle follows the residents, staff, and neighbors of a North
Carolina retirement center (from twelve-year-old Abby to eighty-five-year-old
Sadie) as they share profound discoveries about each other and themselves. McCorkle captures a cacophony of voices
(almost too many) as they subtly experience their own transformations.
*The
Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison was described by the NYTimes as “a story that
offers a profound look into what it takes to truly care for another person.” After
losing virtually everything meaningful in his life, Benjamin trains to be a
caregiver, but his first client, a fiercely independent teen with muscular
dystrophy, gives him more than he bargained for and soon the two embark on a
road trip to visit the boy's ailing father.
