The Bookshelf

Book review of The Broken Window…

Linc Rhyme is wrapped up in a transatlanic case when he gets an unwelcome phone call: his cousin Art had been arrested for 1st degree murder. All the evidence says he did it. And this much evidence can’t be wrong.

Or can it..?? As linc and Sachs investigate, they find a spiders web of crime woven by the most insidious killer they have ever encountered. A man obseessed with collectinng- from junk on the street to intimate details about his victims, to the ulitmate trophy; human lives themselves. This is a man who tortures and murders, a man profiicent with raZors and guns, but whose most dangerous weapon is information.

Information he obessively culls from the corporate and goverment databases which contain every single aspect of our lives.

Information he wields with ruthless precision againest those he targets… and againest those who try to stop him…!!

rem you have to read The Cold Moon before you read this book…!!!1

Im reading the Garden of Beasts, nothing to do with linc, but apparantly there is a neat crossover somewhere in the book. I probably wont spot it, as this is the first one Ive read. Its set in 1936, this american hit-man called Paul is given two options, stay in America and face jail or go to Germany (Berlin) and do what he does best… take people out. Its very very fast paced, running from SS, Nazi’s, grasses, and even though you shouldnt really want him to get away, because of his job of killing people, you actually do in this story.

The descriptions of pre 2nd world war Germany are fantastic, from the beer and food they drink, to the length of the women’s skirts.

Loving it. I needed something to fill me in whilst awaiting Michael Connolly’s next book, and this is just the thing.

I once e-mailed Keith Ablow, before he was a tv star, his books are the most graphic Ive ever read and he mailed me back too. I wish he had stuck to fiction instead of becoming another american tv psyche.

Jodi Piccoult – Nineteen Minutes

fabulous read really enjoyed it …

It was about a student Peter Houghton who endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of his peers. His early childhood was not as bad as he had a best friend, Josie Cormier who stuck up for him and eased the way, on reaching an age she succumbed to peer pressure and hung out with the “in” crowd because she was the girlfriend of one, him being one that often instigated Peter’s harassment. After Peter send Josie an e mail telling of his love for her and it was e mailed across the students without Josie’s knowledge, and the backlash from this sent Peter over the edge and leads him to commit an act of violence that forever changes the lives of the students and all the people of the small town they lived.
The story tells of the lives that are entangled through the state of events that occurred and gives a deep insight into the mind of someone so taunted and picked on and just how they can reach a point of no return.

@~abbie~ wrote:

ONE UNKNOWN _ GILL HICKS

‘ The last person rescued in the 7/7 London bombing of a tube train at Russel Square, Gill Hicks was tagged with a wristband that read ‘One unknown’, and wasn’t expected to survive. Her compelling account of losing both of her legs, the tenacity of the medical team who helped her walk again and the support of loved ones is truly inspiring. Equally moving is her refusal to be bitter and her desire to celebrate life and campaign for peace and reconciliation’.

I watched the documentary a couple of weeks ago. She had had a blazing row with her partner that morning, she really should not have survived those injuries! She made a tornique(spl) and said when she looked down there was hardly anything holding her leg on… that for most of us would be enough to give up the fight there and then. She hung on in there, jeez I dunno how she did.

The way she told her story was inspiring and Im sure the book is a great read if she had anything to do with the editing etc.

I cried when I saw the footage of her walking down the aisle, she looked amazing.

Warra woman.

There was another guy on the documentary who was standing quite near the bomber on the tube and had to have bits of the bomber cut out of him, a piece of his shin bone wedged in his eye and I think it left him blind.

@abitofmary_j wrote:

did ya finish the garden of beasts yet..?? i aint been readin of late… what a last few wks ive had.. lol

same here no time to read. but have plans to xxxx