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Far Side of the Desert, The

From Captive to Conspirator Author: Joanne Leedom-Ackerman The Waters family is doing well; they originate from powerful political families with extensive ties. Samantha is a world-renowned journalist, going into risky situations and doing whatever it takes to get the story. Her sister, Monte, is a US Diplomat, monitoring insurgent movements and terrorists’ organizations. Their brother, Cal, works on big magazine assignments (ala National Geographic). For once, they’re all taking a break, gathering in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, to enjoy a festival that will kick-off their vacation and help them each forget the worries of their personal lives. It turns out, [...]

Frances Carden2024-09-02T12:21:44-07:00September 1st, 2024|Tags: book review, read, reading, reviews, thriller|

Underhanded, The

Secret Societies and Sinister Schemes Author: Adam Sikes Professor William Dresden has never fit in, not with his family, and not with the academic world, which has just terminated his promising career over his recent work. He thinks he has nothing left to lose when he agrees to meet with a mysterious stranger at a Parisian café to talk about his failed studies. Instead, he discovers that his research has led MI6 to some critical findings about an international neo-fascist organization called the Strasbourg Executive. The complication? MI6 is compromised, the Executive has already deployed several assassins, and Professor Dresden’s family [...]

Frances Carden2024-08-25T10:49:42-07:00August 25th, 2024|Tags: book review, read, reading, thriller|

Eileen

Alcoholism, Laxative Purges, and Maybe an Eventual Scandal Author: Ottessa Moshfegh Living alone with her alcoholic, demented father, Eileen is both caretaker and jailer and, in turn, she is also confined. She is imprisoned by her own outsider nature, both the nature that she affects and the one that she has been given by uncaring parents and a dead-hearted town. As a young woman, Eileen is well down the road of alcoholism herself, working by day as a secretary at a corrupt prison for boys. Eileen is defined by her bodily shame – an intense focus on her looks, her secretions [...]

Frances Carden2024-07-27T21:36:26-07:00July 27th, 2024|Tags: book review, Eileen, mystery, read, reading, thriller|