Kate’s 2¢:”Echo” by Thomas Olde Heuvelt; Moshe Gilula Moshe.

”Echo” by Thomas Olde Heuvelt; Moshe Gilula Moshe.

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   I’m not real thrilled with the LGBTQ issue, however, as I got deeper into this gripping tale, it just didn’t matter.

A few take-aways:

— Death birds in Nick’s story, Ethon in my grandfather’s story, my taloned and feathered guilt complex.

— Even after all the running, Where you ended up, was the epicenter of your own wilderness.

— He approached the bed. It was like he was strewing more darkness with each step.

— The face was wrapped in bandages, but it didn’t smell medicinal. It smelled of stone, like earth, like something that came from earth itself.

— The feeling that you’re trapped and can’t get out wasn’t advertised on the Air B&B.

Promethisus’ soul, over time, got more and more barren. His body no more than an empty shell…His guilt returned to feast on his emotions.

— Alternat ending: Hercules shows up one day to save Prometheus from his pickle.

— Everything that you’re responsible for, comes back eventually.

— The same story over and over again.  How you did something as a kid and lived your life hoping that one day  you’d have the chance to redeem yourself,  to make amends.

— Every day, your path goes in circles

— In order to set our souls free, something had to be scooped out.

— It wasn’t such a leap of faith to imagine the weight of the blanket was actually your grandma’s arms embracing you.  That it was her sobbing that you heard, not the luring call of the echoes in the wind. My gaze was drawn to the Modee again. Only the summit was visible now, in the slowly shifting mist, the mountain floating in its breathless silence.

— A good horror story didn’t end with death, it resonated with the echo of something worse to come.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Olde Heuvelt was born in Nijmegen, Netherlands. He studied English and American literature at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen and at the University of Ottawa in Canada, where he lived for half a year. In many interviews, he recalls that the literary heroes of his childhood were Roald Dahl and Stephen King, who created in him a love for grim and dark fiction. He later discovered the works of a wider range of contemporary writers such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Neil Gaiman, and Yann Martel, whom he calls his greatest influences.[citation needed]

From the web:

Moshe Gilula was born in Israel and has been living in the Netherlands since 1994. In between, he lived for three years in Chicago and one year in Oxford. Moshe has been freelancing as a translator since 2010.

Moshe Gilula – Flanders Literature

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Olde Heuvelt, Thomas; Gilula, Moshe. Reading time: 18 hours, 55 minutes.

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Suspense Fiction

Supernatural and Horror Fiction

After a terrible accident high in the Alps, travel journalist Nick Grevers wakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. But Nick and his boyfriend Sam soon realize that something else came down from the mountain with Nick, and their uninvited guest is awake. Translated from the 2019 Dutch edition. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019.

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 Kate’s 2¢: “A Heart Made New” by Kelly Irvin

“A Heart Made New” by Kelly Irvin

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   I was particularly impressed by the relationship of the swaine with a heart condition and the young girl with cancer. He made her wish of riding a black horse come true, meanwhile, the adults sure learned a lot about love and life.

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Kelly Irvin is the author of more than twenty-five Amish romance novels. She is currently working on her latest series, Amish Blessings, set in the Kansas Amish communities of Yoder and Haven.She is the author of the Amish of Big Sky Country series, which focused on three Amish communities in northwestern Montana affected by devastating wildfires.

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Irvin, Kelly Reading time: 11 hours, 26 minutes.

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Religious Fiction

Human Relations

Romance

Annie Shirack is trying to fight her feelings for David Plank, a young Amish man who’s struggling with an aggressive case of Hodgkin’s lymphoma. David loves Annie too much to let her into his life, only, he fears, to leave her. When a homeless young woman named Charisma and her two-year-old daughter, Gracie, show up in Bliss Creek, Annie welcomes them into the Shirack household and tries to help them establish a new life. But all the good deeds in the world can’t change the ache in Annie’s heart or help her forget the man she loves. 2012. Unrated. Marrakesh title.

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Kate’s 2¢: “America’s hidden history: untold tales of the first pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation: by Kenneth Davis

“America’s hidden history: untold tales of the first pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation: by Kenneth Davis

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   I have a fairly good knowledge of our American heritage, although, I’m not a scholar of American history.  I don’t know if the factoids in this book are accurate or not.

   I appreciated the time line found in the beginning of each chapter.

   Robert Sams  did a good job of reading what could have been a dry subject.  Thank you..

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (one source)

Davis was born in Salina, Kansas, and raised in Manhattan, Kansas. He was a 1934 graduate of Kansas State University with a degree in journalism, and received a master of science degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1936. During his varied career, Davis was a journalism instructor at New York University, a war correspondent attached to General Eisenhower’s headquarters during World War II, a member of the UNESCO Relations Staff of the State Department, and a professor of history at both Kansas State and the University of Kansas. He also worked as speech writer for Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson during the 1956 campaign.

   Davis was awarded the prestigious Francis Parkman Prize in 1973 for his book FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, which was also a nominee for the National Book Award. In addition, his next two volumes on Roosevelt were both chosen as among the ten best books of the year by The New York Times. Davis was also a Guggenheim Fellow in 1974.

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 America’s hidden history: untold tales of the first pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation DB66907

Davis, Kenneth C. Reading time: 7 hours, 53 minutes.

America’s hidden history: untold tales of the first pilgrims, fighting women, and forgotten founders who shaped a nation DB66907

Davis, Kenneth C. Reading time: 7 hours, 53 minutes.

Read by Robert Sams.

U.S. History

Author of the Don’t Know Much About series describes overlooked episodes in early American history. Includes Queen Isabella’s advice to Columbus to bring pigs to the New World–animals that introduced diseases to the natives–and George Washington’s attack on French soldiers who were on a diplomatic mission. Violence. 2008.

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Kate’s 2¢: “Anxious people” by Fredrik Backman; Neil   Smith

“Anxious people” by Fredrik Backman; Neil   Smith

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   Don’t be offended, but, written by a Swede, then, interpreted into English, something is bound to be lost or added.  The beginning of this story reminds me of dumping out the 1000 pieces of a jig-saw puzzle onto the table-top. It is a jumble of separate pieces that don’t make much sense.

   After working on the puzzle and this story, things begin to take shape and the bigger picture slowly comes into focus.

   I enjoyed the last chapter, where the author looked into each of the hostage’s issues and how they were resolved. The beginning then made sense, too.

“We never know how your life is affected by mine…But, when you get home this evening, when this day is over and the night takes us allow yourself a deep breath, because, we made it through this day.  There will be another one tomorrow.”

   If you need someone:  National Suicide Life-line, 300-273-8255 

Wikipedia

Fredrik Backman, (born 2 June 1981) Swedish author, journalist, and blogger, was voted Sweden’s most successful author in 2013. Backman grew up in Helsingborg, studied comparative religion but dropped out and became a truck driver instead. When the free newspaper Xtra was launched in 2006, the owner reached out to Backman.

Neil Smith is a French free-lance writer and translator and the author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller Bang Crunch.He has been nominated for the Hugh McLennan Prize for Fiction, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize–Best First Book (Canada), as well as the Journey Prize 3 times.

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Backman, Fredrik; Smith, Neil Reading time: 9 hours, 55 minutes.

Marin Ireland

Humor

General

Psychological Fiction

Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house in a Swedish town becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes an eclectic group of strangers hostage. Strong language and some violence. Commercial audiobook. 2020.

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