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n her the investigation leads down one alley and then the other at each turn encountering snags big and small as usual he is dogged by upper levels of police management wanting quick solves and willing to bend the truth to get there the pursuit of image never interests bosch and he insists on telling the truth every time more than once in the course of the story bosch asks himself or is asked by others what does he believe in he says he believes in the blue religion the pursuit of the killers the pursuit of justice the truth he is however as deputy chief irvin irving says a shit magnet bad things happen to harry perhaps more so in this novel than in others in the end the case is solved but not particularly satisfactorily we never really find out what happened exactly and the ending is ugly i have lived in harry s body in a way for many months as i read through this series he would probably not find me interesting but i find him fascinating and very real that reality comes from connelly s attention to details he doesn t have to trot out every injury in a homicide describe it fully he doesn t have to tell us what a rich woman s house appears like to bosch he doesn t have to take us into the paperwork but he does and that s why i buy it all note i wrote this in 2009 i don t usually post reviews of mysteries here but i make exceptions posted by judith lautner at 4 22 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels city of bones connelly fiction mystery sunday october 13 2013 bone by bone by peter matthiessen there is a lot to recommend this book it provides remarkable pictures of the us in particular florida during the turn of the 19th to the 20th century it provides one way to view the world of e j watson a legendary character in florida in that time it offers a bit of a cautionary tale about ecology albeit in the background yet for me its story of watson was almost relentlessly awful that is the things watson did and the things that were done to him were almost all bad the small lights in his world did not shine brightly enough to turn his character around and his actions led to retaliation of the worst sort watson was a real person the people surrounding him were based on real people including his three wives and i forget how many children however this is not history it is not even fictionalized biography it is the author s effort to explain the little he was able to find out about this man watson s start in life did not bode well for the future he fled from an abusive dirt poor home when he was sixteen he had a powerful work ethic which helped him build a sugar cane plantation in florida along with other efforts he fell in love seriously with his first wife who died young perhaps his loveless childhood and the loss of this wife were contributors to his view of the world try as he might he was unable to maintain an ethical decent manner toward all instead when pushed he would push back and worse he did right by a few people but even in those cases there was a limit to what he could offer he put himself first the book is written in an interesting way almost in some places like a book on the environment or a historical nonfiction book as matthiessen has written nonfiction as well i think it was natural for some of that style to slip in here the passages about watson himself are well drawn yet i was never able to be fully sympathetic not having that connection made it difficult at times for me to push on certainly it is a remarkable book the author has taken what little he could find and pulled it together in not one but three books this is the third of a trilogy on the watson saga this is the one that gets into the flesh and blood of the man i found i was less impressed by it than were others because of the constant beating of awful awful awful it was hard for me to swallow some of his actions and to continue wanting to know what would happen next i sincerely hope that this book finds other readers who do not find it as much a chore as i did posted by judith lautner at 8 36 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bone by bone fiction literature matthiessen sunday october 6 2013 atonement by ian mcewan i finally got around to reading this i saw the movie version a few years ago and loved it i remembered it perhaps too well so wondered if i would enjoy the book knowing the ending it really is very different the book is long 480 pages in my paperback version so covers a great deal more ground as in the film the book essentially starts out with 13 year old briony tallis viewing by accident an incident involving her older sister cecilia and robbie turner the son of the family s housekeeper it is 1935 cecilia s father favored robbie and was happy to pay his tuition to top schools cecilia is home from college for a break and has uncertain feelings about robbie briony misinterprets events not just the triggering incident but later events as a result she tells tales about robbie and her actions reverse robbie s promising future as we follow members of the family and robbie into later years we find that both cecilia and briony have gone into nursing but are separated have not seen each other in years robbie has gone into the military and is wounded as a young student nurse briony steals time to write her love from years ago she later regrets not writing down the details of her days in nursing but instead inventing stories that glide over the details when we visit her again in old age she is a famous writer and is celebrating her birthday with remaining family members and she thinks back on these days did she ever atone for her bad judgment as a thirteen year old i leave it for you to find out posted by judith lautner at 9 22 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels atonement fiction literature mcewan saturday august 3 2013 dark places by gillian flynn dark places inhabited by unstable unpredictable characters the main character libby day is 31 at the opening a bitter angry young woman not given to trusting others or even having others in her life she s always been a bit standoffish but events in her early life sent her down a road of manipulation and guardedness at the age of seven in early 1985 libby was in the house when she heard others being attacked although she did not see anything she head enough to make her afraid she managed to slip out of the house and hide in the nearby woody area she heard her brother ben calling for her a little later but remained hidden her mother and two sisters were killed that night her mother was knifed then shot in the head her sister michelle was strangled in her bed and her sister debby was axed to death libby herself stayed out all night made it to a gas station to call for help and ultimately lost two toes and a finger to frostbite ben was charged with the murder and in part because of libby s testimony he was sent to prison for life libby grew up with her aunt the subject of much attention from the press and at age eighteen inherited a large amount of money from collections made for her in her twenties she was persuaded to co author a self help book a pop survival book but she herself didn t believe much that was in it at age 31 she learns she is almost out of money getting a regular job just seems too much to her she feels too tired and she doesn t get along well with others so when the opportunity to earn a little money by talking to a group of murder fans comes along she takes it she meets this odd assortment in an old building where they are split into interest groups interest in various sensational murder cases her case draws interest because many people believe ben to be innocent they want to locate the real killer eventually although she is upset to find that everyone in the group believes ben to be innocent and her to be complicit in his conviction she comes up with a plan to get more money from them she will talk to various key players in the episode ask them questions that possibly only she can ask and thus she sets off on a journey that takes on a life of its own the chapters alternate between 1985 and now libby s chapters are in first person the others in third gradually we creep up on the actual night of the murders inch by inch through the experiences of ben libby s mother patty and a few others with breaks for libby s current travels the technique builds suspense to the point where i found it almost unbearable to go on or to not go on posted by judith lautner at 2 13 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels dark places fiction flynn literature mystery saturday july 27 2013 what we talk about when we talk about anne frank by nathan englander this collection of short stories is varied in style and point of view but all represent englander s perception of his jewish faith one story tells of his investigation into his own family history others approach the jewish holocaust experience others let us into the lives of those who experience prejudice and there are insights into just what it is to be a good jew there is some wit or humor in each though in some cases it is hidden and not a little irony as a whole the collection informed and entertained me my favorite is the title story in this story two jewish couples get together for dinner one couple is hassidic and is visiting from israel they have taken new names and do not touch each other in public the other is of a more relaxed faith the two had known each other before the first turned hassidic and the narrator the man of the second couple refuses to think of them in their new names discussion turns on a non game that the wife of the second couple has played in her mind since childhood if you were non jewish and your jewish friends were threatened would you risk your life by providing shelter for them i liked the idea of this non game as well as the ultimate end of the story and the insights into the couples it offers of course it gives me something to think about myself about how i would react depending on who the persons are who need help what they represent to me would i be able to ignore what they are to me the second story is a bit of a fable about a woman who is part of one of two families who settled israel many a year ago and how through the years fate did not shine kindly on her in this one we discover some of the basis of the belief in the god given jewish state the unwritten promise and we can make of it what we will camp sundown i found to be hilarious if edgy hilarious the camp has two parts for elderly folks and for young folks at times the twain do meet the conflict that throws it off kilter happens when one elderly couple accuses an elderly man of having been a nazi in wwii the camp director josh can t believe it as the old man seems to come alive only when playing bridge josh takes great pleasure in seeing the man s eyes light up it s a voyage of discovery in a way this collection entertaining and biting at the same time revealing and confessional posted by judith lautner at 6 18 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels englander fiction literature what we talk about when we talk about anne frank older posts home subscribe to posts atom follow this blog loaded web get me in your mailbox get the latest reviews by email enter your email preview powered by feedblitz about me judith lautner view my complete profile blog archive 2014 1 january 1 someone by alice mcdermott 2013 14 december 1 november 1 october 2 august 1 july 2 may 1 april 1 march 2 february 3 2012 10 december 7 may 2 january 1 2011 14 december 2 september 2 august 1 april 1 march 2 february 2 january 4 2010 19 december 10 august 1 july 2 may 1 april 3 march 2 2009 23 december 5 november 1 september 1 august 2 july 1 june 4 may 2 april 1 march 1 february 4 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