Tag Archive | Sense of place
The Inheritance of Beauty, by Nicole Seitz
Originally posted on Blogging for a Good Book:
Something happened in Levy, South Carolina when Magnolia was seven years old. She is now in her eighties living in a nursing home, possibly with Alzheimer’s. In her own words she is “trapped somewhere deep behind my eyes, waving… calling… but no one can hear me.” Her husband George is…
The System, by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian
Originally posted on Blogging for a Good Book:
Looking at the cover of The System, you see a striking image of college football – an enormous stadium filled with cheering crowds awaiting the contest to begin on that emerald green field. As you zoom in on that field, that crowd, that contest, the reality gets…
An Officer and a Spy, by Robert Harris
Originally posted on Blogging for a Good Book:
It was a cause celebre in France and much of the liberal Western world, a scandal that exposed cultural divisions thought to have resolved years before. It discredited a government, tarnished the honor of an entire army, and inflamed relations among already-antagonistic neighbors. It elevated some men…
Crashed, by Timothy Hallinan
Originally posted on Blogging for a Good Book:
I’ve been looking a long time for someone who approached that special place Travis McGee holds in my heart. John D. MacDonald’s boat bum blasted his way through 21 colorfully-titled stories, taking down bad guys, healing broken women, and judging the modern world through his uniquely moral…
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