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This book has the very essence of the Ballad Novel

Revisado: 01-20-23

The characters we know are included, and while they support the story they are the strong bones of many McCrumb books. Sheriff Arrowood and Nora Bonesteel are so well drawn we smile when they appear in the story. The story is so well woven with all the characters and their own concerns and problems we move among them seamlessly as readers. I

am trying to avoid giving the plot away, and it is fascinating. But the young woman in a downed airplane, talking to a newbie emergency volunteer telephone operator, and how their story rumbles through the lives of all the characters is like coming home for the reader.

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Still wonderful after all of these years...

Revisado: 06-29-22

This is not the movie. In many ways the movie. The movie is better than the book. But this reflects the time of the British ruling and controlling large swaths of Africa as well as India. It is written in a very slow build and old fashioned style, and still the listener can see these men risking their lives and in some cases their morals to make their fortunes from hunting everything from elephants for their tusks to leopards for their pelts. We modern readers know the mess that group of people made of the environment. But we still hope the main characters make it home in one piece. H. Rider Haggard deserves his reputation for books that take the reader to the edge of their arm chairs.

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I love John Gaspard books

Revisado: 03-09-22

Gaspard's characters are all intelligent, human, and in many cases quirky. This book is as good as his books about magicians, and like those books his characters are people we would enjoy knowing.

The characters in this book are all Jack the Ripper experts. One is an older, retired Scotland Yard policeman, whose book is considered the definitive Jack the Ripper textbook. The other is a young woman who writes popular mysteries, who took a year off writing those books to do her own research into who Jack the Ripper really is. (Ok, not the Duke of Clarence, but just as hilarious). These two authors are called to help predict, if not identify a new Jack the Ripper copycat. While their knowledge of the original Ripper cases can predict when the next murder will happen, they cannot seem to identify the modern killer.

This is a wonderful book on many levels, but for me it is Gaspard's characters, the modern policeman, the ancient and often wise retired Scotland Yard detective and the lady novelist whose identification of the historical Jack is hilarious even to those of us who are not Ripper experts.

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This is the first Miss Peabody

Revisado: 02-18-22

There have been many reviews of this work. I have listened to all of the Emerson's adventures. They are funny, and accurate. After all how many novels about archeologist have been written by a woman with a Doctorate in Archeology. When Barbara Michaels/Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Mertz died I grieved at her death as if I had know her personally. After all the audiobooks, and kindle books, and paperback books read over twenty years I think all of her faithful readers felt her loss personally. So I am listening to The Crocodile on the Sandbank again. It is worth reading for the Egyptian poem that the name refers to.

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The Ardennes is a story that is layered in snow

Revisado: 01-27-22

This book is an excellent overview of not just the Ardennes but what individual men did with little but their own courage and refusal to quit. Sometimes the truth is more throat closing than all the fictional battles every created.

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Enjoyed this the most of the Tradd Street Books.

Revisado: 12-24-21

I think I will begin at the beginning of the Tradd Street books and reread them. They are all, if not comfort reads, they are all very enjoyable.

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Fun with a sting...

Revisado: 11-08-21

Like all of Moore's books this one takes a hard look at a serious matter and manages to make his readers laugh at the bad guys and cheer when those bad guys get their just deserts. Hmmm I mean they become the just desert.

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Honor is not in shards in this book.

Revisado: 09-01-21

I've read and listened to this book many times. It is still my favorite out of thousands of book. This story well told it manages to give two very different worlds and world views equal praise and blame. Just when the reader/listener thinks that there could be no form of government more destructive we find that yes, self-righteous can be just as bad. And I still reread it, even knowing I will fuss at all of the systems of government. This was written years ago, so our dueling ideologies in this country is nothing new.
This books ability to if not resolve differences, then at least ignore them makes me happy.

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We all know this, still breathtaking.

Revisado: 08-29-21

We have all seen multiple movies, read histories and articles and biographies about these events and the men who lived them and the battles between the Japanese and American navies.

But Ian Toll gives us the point of view from the Japanese Navy and the American Navy beginning with Pearl Harbor through the battle of Midway. This book is so well written and narrated that I was hoping that the United States would Please believe that the intercepted Japanese traffic was accurate and yes, the Japanese were going to attack Midway. The arguments about believing the accuracy of the Code Breakers is amazing. The back biting and jealousy within the Intelligence Branch of the navy is shocking. OK. I know it is old news, but this is written so well that it reads like an adventure novel.

After reading this, I get the anger that the United States felt that led to the atomic bomb. From so far away, I still cringe, but after this book I get why it was dropped, not once but twice.

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Wonderful...

Revisado: 08-28-21

Pendergast is Sherlock Holmes with a soul. I expect the FBI agents who read these stories, are saying to themselves, either I wish we could get away with this, or not in a million years would the agency allow a "lone ranger" special agent. Either way, Preston and Child makes the reader absolutely believe in Pendergast.

At long last the by the book FBI Agency actually gives Pendergast a partner, but one who is by the book, incredibly bright, and has no trouble distrusting another Special Agent that gets too creative. The FBI does police its own. But the top brass should have better sense than to mistrust Pendergast, and his string of solved cases.

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