January 26th, 2007
POSTED AT 11:07 AM
Robin's falling fast for an English guy named Kit Marlin. There are just a few tiny problems: 1) She's living with him and his family in London for the year. 2) He treats her like a sister. 3) He has a gorgeous girlfriend. So she should just get over him and avoid a broken heart, right? Currently listening to: What Goes AroundCurrently feeling: rushed we-let-it-out
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January 24th, 2007
The Street Lawyer POSTED AT 03:24 PM  Michael Brock is John Grisham's, author, lead character in this legal/suspense novel. A high-priced antitrust lawyer at the fictional law firm of Drake & Sweeney. After a near-disastrous incident inside the halls of D. & S., Brock, much to the chagrin of his friends, family, and supervisors, begins to re-evaluate his priorities in life. In the process, he gets acquainted with life on the inner-city streets of the District. Face-to-face with the homeless, Brock comes to realize the harshness of their existence. He vows to give them a voice in the courts against their oppressors -- even his old firm. Currently reading: myLot discussionsCurrently feeling: hungry |
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January 23rd, 2007
Lie Down With Lions POSTED AT 03:52 PM  The setting for Ken Follett’s new dramatic-espionage novel is Afghanistan. Jane and Ellis, American lovers in Paris but she breaks with him when she learns he's a CIA agent, informing on terrorists. Ellis goes back to the U.S.; Jane marries Jean-Pierre Debout, a French physician, and goes with him to Afghanistan to care for rebel families holding out against the Russian army. <i>Here is where the novel's real action, and its knife-edge tension, begins</i>. After the birth of her baby, Jane discovers that Jean-Pierre is himself spying for the Russians and has caused a massacre of guerrilla fighters who were trapped at the foot of the mountains. Then Ellis reappears, bearing offers of American aid for Afghan leader Masud if the latter can unite his country's quarreling tribes. While Jean-Pierre is conspiring with the Soviet intruders to kill Masud, Ellis, Jane and even the infant girl, the story races to an explosive climax.
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Jackdaws POSTED AT 02:46 PM
The title is the code name of a small squad organized by British major Felicity Clairet (nicknamed Flick) to destroy a Gestapo communications center in France on the eve of D-Day. The 28-year-old Flick has been recruited, by a secret organization responsible for sabotage behind enemy lines. She assembles a distaff Dirty Half-Dozen, an oddball band of sisters who pose as cleaning ladies to infiltrate the former chateau. So far, this is the best of all Ken Follet's novel i read. Currently reading: The Pillars of the EarthCurrently feeling: worried |
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