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Kate’s 2¢: “Waiting For Gertrude” by Bill Richardson
“Waiting For Gertrude” by Bill Richardson
–Alice B. Toklas, whose soul inhabits a cat in the cemetery, is waiting for her friend, Gertrude Stein, a writer and who is missing.
–The cemetery has divisions, somewhat like neighborhoods, where the formerly rich and famous, as well as the not so famous or rich, might mingle.
–“To be Born. To die. To be born again and to be forever moving on.”
If you have a literary background and speak French, you’ll enjoy the interplay of the characters in this story.
Bill Richardson – Wikipedia
William Blaine Richardson III (born November 15, 1947) is an American politician, author, and diplomat who served as the 30th governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011.
Richardson was born in Pasadena, California.[9] He grew up in the borough of Coyoacán in Mexico City.[10] His father, William Blaine Richardson, Jr. (1891–1972), who was of Anglo-American and Mexican descent, was an American bank executive from Boston who worked in Mexico for what is now Citibank.[11] His mother, María Luisa López-Collada Márquez (1914–2011), had been his father’s secretary — she was the Mexican-born daughter of a Mexican mother and a Spanish father from Villaviciosa, Asturias.[12] Richardson’s father was born on a ship heading towards Nicaragua.[9] Just before Bill Richardson was born, his father sent his mother to California to give birth because, as Richardson explained, “My father had a complex about not having been born in the United States.”[9]
Richardson, a United States citizen by birth, spent his childhood in a lavish hacienda in Coyoacán’s barrio of San Francisco[10][12] where he was raised as a Roman Catholic.[13] When Richardson was 13, his parents sent him to the U.S. to attend Middlesex School, a preparatory school in Concord, Massachusetts, where he played baseball as a pitcher.[9] He entered Tufts University[14] in 1966, where he continued to play baseball.[15]
Publications[edit]
• Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life, an autobiography, published March 2005 by G.P. Putnam’s Sons, written with Michael Ruby ISBN 0399153241
• Leading by Example: How We Can Inspire an Energy and Security Revolution, released October 2007
• How to Sweet-Talk a Shark: Strategies and Stories from a Master Negotiator, published October 15, 2013 by Rodale Books, written with Kevin Bleyer.
• Universal Transparency: A Goal for the U.S. at the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit, published January 2011, Arms Control Today; Bill Richardson with Gay Dillingham, Charles Streeper, and Arjun Makhijani
• Sweeping Up Dirty Bombs, published Fall 2011, Federation of American Scientists; Bill Richardson, Charles Streeper, and Margarita Sevcik
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Waiting for Gertrude: a graveyard gothic DBG03657
Richardson, Bill Reading time: 6 hours, 40 minutes.
Maggie Smolensky. A production of CNIB.
Waiting for Gertrude is a love story, a whodunit, and a comic fantasy set in Paris’s Pére-Lachaise cemetery, the final resting place of many celebrated personages. The story is told in a series of letters and portraits, written in the voices of Oscar Wilde, Isadora Duncan, Chopin, La Fontaine, Marcel Proust, and Alice B. Toklas, whose souls now inhabit the bodies of cats in the graveyard. 2001. Unrated. Marrakesh title.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Playlist for the Apocalypse: poems” by Rita Dove
“Playlist for the Apocalypse: poems” by Rita Dove
–Prose In A Small Space
If it runs on and on…likes to hear itself talk…fills the white space.
–Bell Ringer
…I was born on the day of his passing…I disappear into third person…I am the clock’s keeper…
–The Spring Cricket
…We were crowded into jars…a clamber of legs…we were a musical lantern…
–A Standing Witness
…The truth has gone walking…Truth would say these are arrogant times…Who comforts you now.
A slim volume with a lot to think about.
Rita Dove – Wikipedia
Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 from the previous “consultant in poetry” position (1937–86).
The annual “Rita Dove Poetry Award” was established by Salem College Center for Women Writers in 2004. The documentary film Rita Dove: An American Poet by Eduardo Montes-Bradley premiered at the Paramount Theater on January 31, 2014. [34] [35]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Playlist for the Apocalypse: poems DB105310
Dove, Rita Reading time: 2 hours, 0 minutes.
Julie-Ann Elliott
Poetry
Collection of seventy-three poems by the author of Mother Love (DB 41331). Poems range from exploring the experience of the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice to the efforts of Black Lives Matter, and themes scope between the individual and the global. Some strong language. 2021.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Righteous prey” by John Sandford
“Righteous prey” by John Sandford
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…
My first impression of Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport was that they were a modern iteration of the Keystone Kops. They do, however, think out of the box with their droll humor and manage to solve what needs to be solved.
I like the double ending, which seems to imply there will be other books to nabbed the remaining psychopathic killers.
Richard Ferrone did a good job of reading this story. Thank you.
From the web:
Sandford, whose real name is actually John Roswell Camp, was born on the 23 rd of February, in the year of 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America. John Sandford is the pen name of journalist and famous author John Roswell Camp. Initially, John wrote a couple of novels with his real name. As he used to write in different genres, it began to create confusion with publishing.
to publish the Prey series, he chose to use this pen name. Camp published all his novels under John Sandford after the Lucas Davenport stories.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Righteous prey DB110634
Sandford, John. Reading time: 11 hours, 50 minutes.
Read by Richard Ferrone.
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
Bestsellers
““We’re going to murder people who need to be murdered.” So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as “The Five,” shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is made up of vigilante killers who are very bored…and very rich. They target the worst of society—rapists, murderers, and thieves—and then use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those who they’ve killed, donating untraceable Bitcoin to charities and victims via the dark net. The Five soon become popular figures in the media…though their motives may not be entirely pure. After The Five strike again in the Twin Cities, Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport are sent in to investigate. And they soon have their hands full—the killings are smart and carefully choreographed, and with no apparent direct connection to the victims, the killers are virtually untraceable. But if anyone can destroy this group, it will be the dynamic team of Davenport and Flowers.” — Provided by
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Kate’s 2¢: “Long shadows by David Baldacci
“Long shadows by David Baldacci
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…
Keith Brewer and Corla Cassidy did a great job of reading this tory for HashetAudio , which was adapted for the NLS Book Program. I’m glad they kept the music at the beginning and end of the story.
I enjoyed this narrative arc and how the characters inter-acted with each other…or not. Amos becomes a multi-facetted man as he deals with is own demons and other people’s demons, too. I particularly liked the way he inter-acted with the teenage children in the story.
Baldacci does not disappoint with his mastery of craft as he parses the issues into the truth.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Baldacci (born August 5, 1960) is an American novelist. An attorney by education, Baldacci writes mainly suspense novels and legal thrillers.[1]
Baldacci was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. He graduated from Henrico High School and earned a B.A. in political science from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law, after which he practiced law for nine years in Washington, D.C. He is of Italian descent.
Baldacci began writing stories as a child, when his mother gave him a notebook in which to record them.[2] He wrote for more than two decades, penning short stories and later screenplays without much success.[3]
While practicing law, he turned to novel writing, taking three years to write Absolute Power.[4] Published in 1996, it was an international best seller. To date, Baldacci has published 46 best-selling novels for adults as well as seven novels for younger readers.
Baldacci resides in Fairfax County, Virginia, with his family.
Baldacci and his wife, Michelle, are the co-founders of the Wish You Well Foundation,[5] which works to combat illiteracy in the United States by funding adult literacy and education programs.[6] Baldacci became involved with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society after his sister, author Sharon Baldacci, was diagnosed with MS.[7]
Baldacci served for 10 years on the board of trustees of the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, Connecticut. In 2019, he donated $1 million to the home.[8]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Long shadows DB110795
Baldacci, David. Reading time: 12 hours, 6 minutes.
Read by Orlagh Cassidy.
Suspense Fiction
Adventure
Mystery and Detective Stories
“When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears straightforward: A federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge’s face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out, a clear sign that she’d made one too many enemies over her years on the bench. What at first seems cut and dry is anything but: Not only did the judge have more enemies than Decker can count—from violent gang members, drug dealers, and smugglers to a resentful ex-husband—but the bodyguard presents additional conundrums that muddy the waters even further. Who was the real target in this vicious attack? Meanwhile, Decker must contend with a series of unsettling changes, including a new partner—Special Agent Frederica “Freddie” White—and a devastating event that brings Decker’s own tragic past back to the present . . . and forces him to reckon with his future. As potential witnesses start disappearing, Decker and White are inexorably pulled down
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