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us connected in some small way to each other posted by mckait at 7 34 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest the secretary a journey with hillary clinton from beirut to the heart by kim ghattas in the spirit of full disclosure i have to say that i am an ardent admirer of both bill and hillary clinton each of them during their time spend in office have done much for our country bill during his years as president of the united states and hillary as first lady senator and then as secretary of state to president barack obama have i was sorry when hillary decided the time had come for her to leave the office of secretary of state to spend some time as an ordinary citizen although neither of these individuals can be described as ordinary at any time i was delighted with the opportunity to read about the days that hillary clinton spent traveling in the world in service to her country through the eyes of one of those who were part of the team of journalists who accompanied her kim gjattas gjattas was raised in beirut the civil war there was part of her daily life this gave her a unique perspective during her time as the bbc s state department correspondent her credentials include reporting on her own country s affairs for both american and british newspapers then as the bbc s radio and television correspondent since 2008 she draws a compelling picture of those days and nights traveling the world in the company of one of the most powerful american women ever to serve her country we begin this journey with gjattas on the very first day of hillary s term as secretary of state it seemed as if from those first moments of taking office hillary and her team were a whirlwind of traveling the globe and meeting with not only the powerful leaders of countries but often their families and ordinary women everywhere part of her own agenda was that women be recognized across the globe for the important and influential roles they played whether they were in government or were raising families clinton had the advantage of being a well known figure throughout the world after her time as first lady to president bill clinton she was far from reticent even in those days and was certainly a working first lady with her own office and staff this however was a whole new situation as secretary of state of the most powerful nation in the world she not only had to step into an unfamiliar job and learn it from the inside out quickly she had to forge a working relationship with a man who was once her opponent in the race for president but if any two people could do that it was hillary clinton and barack obama they became quite a team over the four years that they worked together the effects of wikileaks is covered and the effect it had on hillary s relationships with leaders across the world as i watched the news on wikileaks and listened to the news i was unaware of just how much fallout had occurred that would affect the office held by hillary clinton this informative book helps us to understand that in order to repair some of the damage done a talented negotiator was needed and hillary was up to the task in fact this book gives us a look at diplomacy at one of the highest levels as performed by a powerful woman in our own time i have a feeling that we haven t seen the last of clinton she has proven to be a force to be reckoned with in american politics and policy this book was a fascinating and easy read the author takes us along with her as she spends several years covering a major political figure this is far from being a dull recounting of the events of the time clinton spent as secretary of state in fact it was hard to put down i recommend it and would call it a 4 5 star read posted by mckait at 7 30 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest angelopolis by danielle trussoni i thought angelology by danielle trussoni was wonderful the minute i reached the last page i was impatient for the next book i can tell you that it was well worth the long wait for book ii in the series angelopolis according to her own tweets the author went to a convent to do some research on writing about a nun as a character she left there instead with the idea of writing a book about angels i can tell you that i am glad she did this series is rare in its sophisticated and well researched subject matter the first book angelology introduced us to evangeline who is the fascinating main character of that we we meet again ten years later when angelopolis opens we last saw her spreading her wings and leaping into the future a future that begins in the first circle near to the eiffel tower we find a broken body of an angel lying in a puddle of blue blood and two gifted angelologists bruno and verlaine have been searching for years for evangeline verlaine carries within him the secret love he feels for her while looking down on the body before him he realizes that he is surrounded not only by humans but many of the various types of angels the mara the gusian rahab anakin and more so many and all standing in the open he looks at the identification his partner is showing him with the face of evangeline the angel he seeks the woman he loves this identification had been taken from the dead angel this second book re tells the story of the tortured romanov family with twists we have never imagined rasputin could he be more than we ever imagined him to be and the question of the faberge eggs and their possible connection to angels is brought up and investigated we are taken from the heights of beauty perfection and love to the very depths of humankind and the earth itself we are introduced to miracles and moments of inconceivable evil we meet members of evangeline s family and find friends and enemies that she was unaware of and this book like the first has a dramatic ending as with book one we are left hanging as with all good books we are left wanting more the ending leaves us breathless and feeling the not just the loss of a story finished but the anticipation of what is to come trussoni has a gift for leaving us with a good ending i strongly recommend this book to anyone who loves a good thriller a mystery a bit of religious spice and controversy and most of all to anyone who enjoys a good compelling read posted by mckait at 7 28 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest a curious man the strange and brilliant life of robert believe it or not ripley by neal thompson i freely admit that when i requested a curious man the strange and brilliant life of robert believe it or not ripley by neal thompson from vine i had no idea what an interesting read it would be i like so many others have been aware of the believe or not phrase for much of my life in fact it has been some time since i ve heard it or given any thought to the man who created it what i think of first when thinking of ripley are the museums and the magazine like television show that aired so long ago i never gave any thought to the man behind it just to the curiosities displayed as it turns out leroy robert ripley who changed his name in order to please an employer early in his career had a very difficult start his family was poor and worked hard to keep body and soul together both is mother and father doing the best they could to keep their children clothed and fed ripley was an unusual looking individual as well as it turns out this of course led to him being teased mercilessly as a child and youth having an unfortunate stutter did not help matters his talent his passion and his escape was art despite the help of a sympathetic teacher who allowed him to do do drawings instead of papers and read aloud reports ripley left high school without finishing he went in search of work or more precisely adventure that would put some money in his pocket he tried to follow his dream with mixed success even though his passion was his art he was untrained this resulted in him being able to secure only low paying positions and in fact having his employers lose interest after a short time finally at one point in his early years he did seek out some art training which allowed him to improve and to do what he set out to do draw cartoons more successfully he made his way to new york and there began his climb to not only success but celebrity as he became more and more successful in his carrer if not his personal life the first cartoon to carry the beieve it or not title appeared in 1919 this became his trademark phrase after finding that he had become a successful cartoonist and then something of a story teller he was offered the chance to travel around the world and report back on what he saw he found that his talent went beyond presenting the ludicrous but describing the beautiful and the tragic and particularly the gruesome and the freakish it is a little known fact that through many years he had a silent partner by the name of norbert pearlroth pearlroth was a good looking and inteligent man from the austrian section of galicia he sported a nearly photographic memory and once invested in an encyclopedia called the library of entertainment and knowledge from these books and pearlroth s memory came many of the unusual facts and stories used in ripley s cartoons and later his books this was a quick and interesting read which gave a good long look at the man behind the mysterious and bizarre and all things entertaining that we are told to believe it or not posted by mckait at 7 25 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest transatlantic by colum mccann if there is a key player in this story transatlantic a novel by colum mccann it is lily duggin lily is thread the spirit that runs through each story lily and the women of her own family bind these stories together lily whose life began by scrabbling to survive being born to parents who didn t have the capacity or ability to love and cherish perhaps they were too damaged by their own struggles but their failures contributed to lily s strength and her will to survive this novel seems at first to be a series of short stores with little or no connection it opens with the story of two survivors of wwi who build and repurpose a plane one that at one time dropped bombs took lives and then flew back into the night they had both experienced life as prisoners they not acquainted until the thunder of the war had dimmed to a small rumble in the background of their lives the met and together claimed for themselves a mission to fly a plane non stop across the atlantic ocean they found a way to attempt to make this dream trip a possibility what could be more hopeless than to be a slave frederick douglass first escaped hopelessness and then he escaped slavery he started a family and became an author an abolitionist and a great speaker he was hosted in 1845 by richard webb with whom he traveled through ireland to speak of his life and recognized the similarity of the plight of the poor in that country a plight characterized by a lack of hope this was also the beginning of the time known as the great famine douglass carried the weight of his experiences of that time as he traveled ireland suffered the famine and the troubles years of seeking freedom south from north it seemed that for them this would never be possible george mitchell a former american senator had an interest ireland finding its freedom its peace it is1998 and we find him devoting days of his life away from his young family he is on a mission to stop the killing to seeing to it that each family will have its full complement of members sitting down to supper each night no more tears no more senseless death hopelessness again rears its ugly head but it is pushed back refused mitchell is a man who is determined to see this job done protestants and catholics brought together at last a dream or a real possibility common themes war hopelessness strength and selflessness resonate through this story the women of lily s family appear again and again as we flow back and forth through the years more common threads a quote that stayed with me from this story is there is always room for at least two truths perhaps one of these truths is that we are all connected through time through family and through our experiences posted by mckait at 7 22 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest simon s cat in kitten chaos by simon tofield simon s cat in kitten chaos is a fun and funny addition to the library of anyone who loves cats in fact it is a great addition for anyone who likes to laugh i have been a fan of simon s cat since i first came across cat man do a hilarious line drawing video years ago in fact that may still be my favorite video of all or maybe it s tv dinner no it is impossible to choose a favorite simon s cat video i have a cat well i have some cats and so maybe i am more inclined than a non cat person to laugh at the antics that simon s cat and now the kitten get up to they are particularly funny when you have seen your own cats pulling the same stunts and getting into similar situations cat lovers know that brining a new kitten into the family is not an easy task most of the time there is always a period of time when the first cat is very suspicious of the new kitten and appalled by its uncivilized behavior forgetting of course their own days of curtain climbing and furniture shredding simon tofield is unsurpassed in bringing these behaviors to light and presenting them in the most humoress way possible i will keep this book on the shelf with my keeprs the books that i know i will read and enjoy again and again as laugh out loud funny as the video versions of simon s cat can be this hilarious book version is a must have for cat lovers everywhere posted by mckait at 7 18 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest louder than words by laurie plissner louder than words by laurie plissner is an interestng and fast paced read to call sasha the main character in this story a sassy young girl would seem somewhat unusual considering that she is unable to speak we begin the story when she turns thirteen and wakes in a hospital with her aunt charlotte at her side sasha has no idea where she is or why because as hard as she tries she can t remember why she is in the hospital her main concern in those first moments are for her family she senses something has happened but can t remember what to find her mother s sister at her bedside instead of her mother is somehow not right sasha wants answers and she wants them fast this is when she finds that she is unable to speak she opens her mouth to question charlotte and nothing comes out the inability to speak is a shock to charlotte as well and as she hurries to find paper and pencils for sasha a doctor comes in and things begin to happen in a hurry there is no time for charlot...