Kate’s 2¢: “The Sleeper: by Saul Herzog
“The Sleeper: by Saul Herzog
I like to read books in a series that have characters I’ve met in the previous books. I may not like each character, but I do look for them to pop up.
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The Sleeper (Lance Spector, book 4) by Saul Herzog
www.fantasticfiction.com/h/saul-herzog/sleeper.htm
Saul Herzog is the pseudonym of one of the publishing industry’s most sought after and successful thriller writers. His plots focus on realistic and timely scenarios, and mix military tactics, espionage, and high-octane action. His characters are compelling and deep, just the sort of people that stick with you long after you turn the last page.
The Lance Spector series is a private passion project, but it is also more than that. It is the culmination of years of research, working in the trenches of the thriller genre, both in publishing and in film.
If you are new to my work, I recommend starting with my book The Asset.
WebSaul Herzog is the author of the Lance Spector Thriller series of books. The series began in 2020 with the release of The Asset. The name of Saul Herzog is actually a pen name. The actual author is unknown at this time, but they are one of the publishing industry’s most …
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The sleeper DB111573
Herzog, Saul. Reading time: 17 hours, 11 minutes.
Read by John Haag.
Suspense Fiction
Spy Stories
“Narvik, Norway. A remote NATO seismic array in the far north of Norway detects the largest nuclear detonation since the days of the Soviet Union. Svalbard Archipelago, Norway. The largest icebreaker in the Norwegian Navy, and one of the most high tech vessels operating in the Arctic, disappears without trace. Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. In the chaos following the explosion, the lead scientist on a top secret Russian military research program goes missing with his daughter. There are rumors of sabotage. The Kremlin, Moscow. A Russian asset, embedded deep within the CIA’s London Station, sends a coded message. “Your missing scientist has made contact. I can lead you right to him.” The Sleeper by Saul Herzog is the stunning fourth instalment in the series that has single-handedly taken the publishing industry, and Hollywood rights departments, by storm. This dazzling tour de force kicks off right where the previous book ended. From the mind of one of the most creative and versatile write
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Kate’s 2¢: “Adrift: a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic and the one who lived to tell about it”
by Brian Murphy
“Adrift: a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic and the one who lived to tell about it”
by Brian Murphy
Maritime history is rife with ships that sunk with so few survivors. I enjoyed this well-researched true story of one of the last sailing ships sans steam..
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A story of tragedy at sea, where every desperate act meant life or death.
The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than 100 passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly, an iceberg tore the ship asunder, and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard from again, the last boat wrenched away from the sinking ship with a few blankets, some water and biscuits, and 13 souls. Only one would survive. This is his story.
As they started their nine days adrift more than 400 miles off Newfoundland, the castaways – an Irish couple and their two boys, an English woman and her daughter, newlyweds from Ireland, and several crewmen, including Thomas W. Nye from Fairhaven, Massachusetts – began fighting over food and water. One by one, though, day by day, they died. Some from exposure, others from madness and panic. In the end, only Nye and the ship’s log survived.
Using Nye’s firsthand descriptions and later newspaper accounts, ship’s logs, assorted diaries, and family archives, Brian Murphy chronicles the horrific nine days that 13 people suffered adrift on the cold, gray Atlantic. Adrift brings listeners to the edge of human limits, where every frantic decision and desperate act is a potential life-saver or life-taker.
Toula Vlahou – News Editor – The Wall Street Journal
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Adrift: a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic and the one who lived to tell about it DB92399
Murphy, Brian; Vlahou, Toula Reading time: 9 hours, 24 minutes.
Dan Warren A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.
Travel
Journalist recounts the ordeal of passengers on the John Rutledge, which struck an iceberg and sank en route from Liverpool to New York in 1856. Draws on accounts left by the sole survivor, Thomas W. Nye, to describe the turmoil experienced by passengers on the only lifeboat discovered. Commercial audiobook. 2018.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Shakespeare in America: an anthology from the Revolution to now” by James Shapiro
“Shakespeare in America: an anthology from the Revolution to now”
by James Shapiro
A lengthy read, but quite interesting.
Wikipedia
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James S. Shapiro (born 1955) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University who specializes in Shakespeare and the Early Modern period. Shapiro has served on the faculty at Columbia University since 1985, teaching Shakespeare and other topics, and he has published widely on Shakespeare and Elizabethan culture.
Life[edit]
Shapiro was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where he attended Midwood High School. He obtained his B.A. at Columbia University in 1977, Master’s degree in 1978 and Ph.D. at University of Chicago in 1982. After teaching at Dartmouth College and Goucher College, Shapiro joined the faculty at Columbia University in 1985. He taught as a Fulbright lecturer at Bar-Ilan University and Tel Aviv University (1988–1989) and served as the Samuel Wanamaker Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe in London (1998).
Shapiro has received awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Huntington Library, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture for his publications and academic activities. He has written for numerous periodicals, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Book Review, the Financial Times, and The Daily Telegraph. In 2006, he was named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow as well as a Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
Shapiro won the 2006 Samuel Johnson Prize as well as the 2006 Theatre Book Prize for his work 1599: a Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, which Robert Nye described as “powerful” in Literary Review, set apart by Shapiro’s precise and engrossing commentary on the sea-change in Shakespeare’s language during the year 1599.[2][3] He also won the 2011 George Freedley Memorial Award, given by the Theatre Library Association, for his study of the Shakespeare authorship question, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?, which has been described as the “definitive treatment” debunking the Oxfordian theory.[4] The same year Shapiro was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His book, “The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606”, published in hardback in 2015, was awarded the James Tait Black Prize for Biography[5][circular reference] as well as the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography.[6] Shapiro presented a three-part series on BBC Four called The King & the Playwright: A Jacobean History about Shakespeare, King James VI and I and the Jacobean era.[7]
In 2023, his 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare won the Baillie Gifford Prize’s “Winner of Winners” award.[8][9]
He is married, has a son, and lives in New York City.[10]
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Shakespeare in America: an anthology from the Revolution to now DB92092
Shapiro, James; Clinton, Bill Reading time: 26 hours, 10 minutes.
Doug Tisdale Jr. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.
Drama
Literature
Collection of essays regarding the role of William Shakespeare’s works in America from the revolution to the twenty-first century. Contributors include John Adams, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Abraham Lincoln, Jane Addams, Robert Frost, Toshio Mori, Langston Hughes, Jane Smiley, and more. Includes a foreword by former president Bill Clinton. 2014.
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Kate’s 2¢: “A simple murder: a Kate Burkholder short story collection” by Linda Castillo
“A simple murder: a Kate Burkholder short story collection” by Linda Castillo
I’ve read several stories featuring Kate Burkholder. I like the wholesomeness of them, if you can say murder is wholesome. The characters are real and their actions have reactions. As for the sequencing of these stories, the first one was out of chronological order, which bothered me. I like things to be linear.
Kathleen McInerney did a good job of narrating these short stories.
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A simple murder: a Kate Burkholder short story collection DB109583
Castillo, Linda. Reading time: 10 hours, 6 minutes.
Read by Kathleen McInerney.
Short Stories
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
“New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo is known as a “master of the genre” (People) for her pulse-pounding mystery series set in Amish country. Now, together for the first time in print, |A Simple Murder| features six original short stories starring whip-smart chief of police, Kate Burkholder. While on vacation with her partner John Tomasetti in LONG LOST, Kate discovers that the old house where they’re staying is haunted by a girl who disappeared decades before…. An abandoned baby is discovered on the Amish bishop’s front porch in A HIDDEN SECRET, and Kate is called in to investigate. SEEDS OF DECEPTION unearths the secrets of Kate Burkholder’s own Amish past—and lays the groundwork for her future career in law enforcement. In the midst of a power outage in Painters Mill, a teenage girl is attacked at an Amish party in ONLY THE LUCKY. IN DARK COMPANY is the story of an injured woman with amnesia who seeks Kate’s help in trying to remember her attacker’s identity…and her
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Kate’s 2¢: “Wolf Hollow” by Victoria Houston
“Wolf Hollow” by Victoria Houston
Among the many characters introduced in the beginning of this story, I suspect you, as I did, will be able to guess who the murderer is.
I enjoyed the story and look forward to following Lewellen Ferris in Houston’s Mystery series. I wonder if Kathy Kerrigan will continue to read this series as the books are released.
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Victoria Houston (b. March 25, 1945) is an American writer. She is the author of the Loon Lake Series, a series of murder mysteries. The mysteries are set in the Northwoods of Wisconsin against a background of fly fishing as well as fishing for muskie, bass, bluegill and walleyes. She has also written or co-authored over seven non-fiction books.
Houston had been formerly married to a man nine years younger than herself, and their union led Houston to interview 40 couples in similar circumstances, resulting in the book Loving a Younger Man: How Women Are Finding and Enjoying a Better Relationship.[1][2][3] Houston lives and works in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.[4]
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Wolf Hollow DBC24908
Houston, Victoria. Reading time: 5 hours, 46 minutes.
Read by Kathy Kerrigan.
Mystery and Detective Stories
In the first installment of the Lew Ferris Mystery series, a string of murders leaves Police Chief Ferris and the Northwoods community of Loon Lake, Wisconsin searching for answers. Adult. Unrated.
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Kate’s 2¢: “BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP” by S.J. Watson
“BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP” by S.J. Watson
In “BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP” by S.J. Watson, Christine wakes up every morning with no memory of the days before, of who that man (her husband, Ben) in bed with her is, of who she is or how old she is.
I enjoyed this psychological thriller and couldn’t really tell what the truth was, until the very end Well written..
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Steve “S. J.” Watson (born 1971)[1] is an English writer. He debuted in 2011 with the thriller novel Before I Go to Sleep. Rights to publish the book have been sold in 42 countries[2] and it has continued to be an international bestseller.[3]
Personal life[edit]
Watson was born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire (now West Midlands). He studied Physics at the University of Birmingham and then moved to London, where he worked in various hospitals and specialized as an audiologist[4] in the diagnosis and treatment of hearing-impaired children. In the evenings and weekends he wrote fiction.[5]
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Synopsis
“The best debut novel I’ve ever read.”–Tess Gerritsen,bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series”Anexceptional thriller. It left my nerves jangling for hours after I finished the last page.” –Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Moonlight MileS. J. Watson makes his powerful debutwith this compelling, fast-paced psychological thriller, reminiscent of Shutter Island and Memento, in which an amnesiac who, following a mysterious accident, cannot remember her past or form new memories, desperately tries to uncover the truth about who she is–and who she can trust.
Copyright: 2011
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Publisher: HarperCollins
Date of Addition: 05/05/20
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Categories: Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
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Kate’s 2¢: “26A” by Diana Evans
“26A” by Diana Evans
This was an interesting and intriguing story that was well crafted. It will mess with your mind
and cause you to think again about the twin-bond.
Gabriella Cavallero is one of my favorite readers.
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Diana Omo Evans FRSL (born 1972)[1] is a British novelist, journalist and critic who was born and lives in London. Evans has written four full-length novels. Her first novel, 26a, published in 2005, won the Orange Award for New Writers,[2] the Betty Trask Award[3] and the deciBel Writer of the Year award.[4] Her third novel Ordinary People was shortlisted for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction[5] and won the 2019 South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature.[6] A House for Alice was published in 2023.[7]
As well as writing fiction, Evans contributes essays and literary criticism to the national press.[8] She was honoured as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020.[9]
Background and education[edit]
Evans is the daughter of a Nigerian mother and an English father. She was born and grew up in Neasden, north-west London, with her parents and five sisters, one of whom was her twin.[10] She also spent part of her childhood in Lagos, Nigeria.[11]
She completed a media studies degree at the University of Sussex.[11] While in Brighton, she was a dancer[12] in the African dance troupe Mashango.[11]
She completed an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.[11] At the age of 25 she became a journalist. She contributed human-interest features and art criticism to a range of magazines, journals and newspapers in the UK; published interviews with celebrities; worked as an editor for Pride Magazine[13] and the literary journal Calabash.
Writing[edit]
Her first novel, 26a, “a Bildungsroman that centres its storyline on the growing process of a pair of identical twins of Nigerian-British origin, Georgia and Bessi”[14] growing up in Neasden, was published in 2005 to wide critical acclaim and has since been translated into 12 languages.[15] It was shortlisted in the first novel category for both the Whitbread Book Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was the inaugural winner of the Orange Award for New Writers.[16] Literary critic Maya Jaggi said in The Guardian of 26a: “The writing is both mature and freshly perceptive, creating not only a warmly funny novel of a Neasden childhood … but a haunting account of the loss of innocence and mental disintegration.”[17] Carol Birch, writing in The Independent, said of 26a that “Evans writes with tremendous verve and dash. Her ear for dialogue is superb, and she has wit and sharp perception” and though she has her criticisms, concludes that Evans “has produced a consistently readable book filled with likeable characters: a study of loss that has great heart and humour.”[18] According to Diriye Osman in the Huffington Post: “Here was a Bildungsroman of such daring and sustained elegance that it felt like a gorgeous dance of a novel. In many ways, it is apropos that this book which focused on the secret bond that exists between twins was followed in 2009 by the equally masterful The Wonder, a novel rooted in the world of dance.”[19]
Evans’ second novel, The Wonder (2009), explores the world of dancing in the context of Caribbean immigration to the UK, London gentrification, and the bond between father and son.[2][12] Maggie Gee, writing in The Independent, called it “a serious work of art, with sentences like ribbons of silk winding around a skeleton of haunting imagery. … The Wonder’s most central achievement is to explore what art means in human life. … This second novel, both powerful and delicate, lacking in linear plot but rich in the poetry of human observation, proves that Evans has what she calls ‘the watch-me, the grace note’ that marks a true artist.”[20]
Her third novel, Ordinary People (2018), is a portrait of family life for two black couples in their 30s in South London in a year bookended by the election of Barack Obama and the death of Michael Jackson.[13][21][22] Ordinary People was the winner of the South Bank Sky Arts Award and shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Rathbones Folio Prize.[6][5][23][24]
Her fourth novel, A House for Alice, was published in 2023,[25][26] charaterised as “the first memorialisation of Grenfell in fiction”.[27]
Also a journalist, Evans has contributed essays and literary criticism to Marie Claire, The Independent, The Observer, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times, Time, The New York Review of Books and Harper’s Bazaar.[11][28][29]
She is an associate lecturer of Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a patron of the SI Leeds Literary Prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women in the UK.[30] She is also a 2014–16 Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the London College of Fashion and a 2016–17 Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Kent.[16]
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26a DB63157
Evans, Diana. Reading time: 9 hours, 21 minutes.
Read by Gabriella Cavallero.
Family
Psychological Fiction
In 26a, the attic of their London loft, Georgia and Bessi Hunter, twin daughters of a Nigerian mother and alcoholic English father, build a blissful sanctuary. But adolescence tests their bonds and identities as Georgia descends into mental illness. Strong language, some explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2005.
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