Kate’s 2¢: “Bradstreet Gate: a novel” by Robin Kirman
“Bradstreet Gate: a novel” by Robin Kirman
It was interesting to read about the characters and how the author inter-wove them. The killer was implied, but I don’t feel the book actually had an ending.
From the web:
Robin Kirman earned a BA in philosophy from Yale College and an MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where she served as a writing instructor in the English department. Robin lives in New York City and Tel Aviv.
Her curiosity about human psychology has led her to combine work in psychoanalysis with writing fiction. Her first novel, Bradstreet Gate, was published by Crown in 2015, and her television series The Love Wave is currently in development.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Bradstreet Gate: a novel DB82108
Kirman, Robin. Reading time: 11 hours, 50 minutes.
Read by Cassandra Campbell.
Suspense Fiction
Psychological Fiction
When a Harvard student is murdered, professor Rufus Storrow is the prime suspect. Three of his students–Georgia, Charlie, and Alice–are in disbelief. Their own relationships are a tangled mess, and as they sort through their lives, they bear witness to each other’s and Storrow’s highs and lows. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2015.
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Kate’s 2¢:” Code name Blue Wren: the true story of America’s most dangerous female spy–and the sister she betrayed: by Jim Popkin
”Code name Blue Wren: the true story of America’s most dangerous female spy–and the sister she betrayed: by Jim Popkin
This was one of seven stories sent on a cartridge from NLS, so I read it.
This apparently well researched documentary certainly showed the seemier side of an evil woman. The answer of why someone would turn so against everything she’d been brought up with, is still unanswered.
I’d like to find more information on what Anna is doing, if she did indeed get out of prison in January, 2023.
Wikipedia
Jim Popkin is an American investigative journalist and author. He won a 2007 Gerald Loeb Award, Edward R. Murrow Award, and the George Polk Award.
Popkin is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, WIRED, Newsweek, Slate, The Guardian, Washingtonian, and on National Public Radio. He started and ran the NBC News Investigative Unit, where he was a Senior Producer as well as an on-air correspondent.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Code name Blue Wren: the true story of America’s most dangerous female spy–and the sister she betrayed DB114279
Popkin, Jim Reading time: 10 hours, 29 minutes.
Jim Popkin
Biography
True Crime
U.S. History
“Just days after the 9-11 attacks, a senior Pentagon analyst eased her red Toyota Echo into traffic and headed to work. She never saw the undercover cars tracking her every turn. As she settled into her cubicle on the 6th floor of the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, FBI Agents and twitchy DIA officers were hiding in nearby offices. For this was the day that Ana Montes—the US Intelligence Community superstar who had just won a prestigious fellowship at the CIA—was to be arrested and publicly exposed as a secret agent for Cuba. Like spies Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen before her, Ana Montes blindsided her colleagues with brazen acts of treason. For nearly 17 years, Montes succeeded in two high-stress jobs. By day, she was one of the government’s top Cuba experts, a buttoned-down GS-14 with shockingly easy access to classified documents. By night, she was on the clock for Fidel Castro, listening to coded messages over shortwave radio, passing US secrets to handlers in local restaurants, and slipping into Havana wearing a wig. Montes didn’t just deceive her country. Her betrayal was intensely personal. Her mercurial father was a former US Army Colonel. Her brother and sister-in-law were FBI Special Agents. And her only sister, Lucy, also worked her entire career for the Bureau. The highlight of her distinguished 31 years as a Miami-based language specialist: Helping the FBI flush Cuban spies out of the United States. Little did Lucy or her family know that the greatest Cuban spy of all was sitting right next to them at Thanksgivings, baptisms, and weddings. In Code Name Blue Wren, investigative journalist Jim Popkin weaves the tale of two sisters who chose two very different paths, plus the unsung heroes who had to fight to bring Ana to justice. With exclusive access to a “Secret” CIA behavioral profile of Ana, family memoirs, and Ana’s incriminating letters from prison, Popkin reveals the making of a traitor—a woman labelled “one of the most damaging spies in U.S. history” by America’s top counter-intelligence official. After more than two decades in federal prison, Montes will be freed in January 2023. Code Name Blue Wren is a thrilling detective tale, an insider’s look at the clandestine world of espionage, and an intimate exploration of the dark side of betrayal.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Kate’s 2¢: ”Brain Fever” by Valerie Sayers
”Brain Fever” by Valerie Sayers
I suspect this story highlights the behavior of what a mentally ill person might display. Manifestations of mental illness are observed in most of these characters, but especially, in the main character.
David Palmer did a good job of narrating this story for us.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Valerie Sayers (born 1952) is an American writer and the author of six novels: The Powers (2013); Brain Fever (1996); The Distance Between Us (1994); Who Do You Love (1991); How I Got Him Back, or, Under the Cold Moon’s Shine (1989); and Due East (1987). Brain Fever and Who Do You Love were named New York Times “Notable Books of the Year”, and the 2002 film Due East is based on her first two novels. Reviewing Who Do You Love, The Chicago Tribune declared: “To say that Valerie Sayers is a natural-born writer wildly underestimates the facts…. She has carved out for herself a corner of the South as clearly delineated as Faulkner’s famous Yoknapatawpha County, a sense of the importance and holiness of place that calls to mind Eudora Welty’s writing on the subject.”[1]
Biography[edit]
Sayers was born and raised in Beaufort, South Carolina. She was educated at Fordham and Columbia. She lived in New York for many years.[2] Her writing has considered the experience of Irish Catholics in the American South, the forces of segregation and Civil Rights, and the place of pacifism in domestic politics.
Sayers is most often read in the lineage of Mary Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers, Pat Conroy, and Walker Percy.[3] Her stories, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in such publications as The New York Times, Washington Post, Commonweal, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, Image, Witness, and Prairie Schooner, and have been cited in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays.[4] Her short story “The Other Woman” is published in Cabbage and Bones: An Anthology of Irish American Women’s Fiction (1997).
The Powers, which the Washington Post described as “brilliantly realized…in brutally elegant prose” opens in the summer of 1941, and holds the war fever then sweeping across Europe in tension with the contemporary baseball mania sweeping up the United States, a fever fueled by the Yankees’ Joe DiMaggio.[5] The journal Image: Art, Faith, Mystery featured an interview with Sayers on “Baseball and Fiction”.[6]
Northwestern University Press plans to reissue her first five novels during 2013. Since 1993, Sayers has been a professor of English and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame.[7]
Critical discussions of Sayers’s work appear in Mary E. Reichardt’s Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook (2001) and in Bryan Giemza’s Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South (2013).
Sayers’s essay “The Word Cure: Cancer, Language, and Prayer” appears in the journal Image.[8]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Brain fever DB42974
Sayers, Valerie. Reading time: 10 hours, 42 minutes.
Read by David Palmer.
Psychological Fiction
Middle-aged professor Tim Rooney feels another breakdown looming when he leaves his fiancee, decides to find his former wife, and heads for New York with fifteen thousand dollars stuffed in his shoes. Tim’s mind slowly unravels as he contends with past and present troubles. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex.
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