Sunday Salon - Fiction or Not?

Adam Blair Lang the ex- British prime minister, has allowed Mr. X to be his new ghost writer of his memoirs. There's a lot of money to be made if Mr. X can complete the "book" in a month. Appears that there is more to the job than bargained for.

Prime Minister Lang is charged with illegally handing over terror suspects to be tortured by the CIA. The publishers behind the book see an opportunity as the allegations surface and now want the book finished in two weeks.

Mr. X has some weird feelings about the whole scenario and follows the previous ghost writers trail which leads him to an ex-CIA agent.

The trail begins to muddy as Mr. Lang is killed by a bomb, as his beloved wife looks on.

The Ghost is flabbergasted when after talking to PM Lang's former foreign secretary, he deduces that Mrs. Lang is also CIA.

What a great plot!

Read this one! 

 

 

 

Sunday Salon - Do You Believe in Ghosts?

When I picked up The Ghost by Robert Harris, I did not read the inside cover as I usually do, and in not doing so thought I was buying a novel probably about a ghost.

Well the ghost turned out to be a writer whom is aptly not named in this political novel, but is hired after Mike McAra the ghost writer of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang commits "suicide."

Started reading this last Thursday and continuing today this caustic novel is packed with inveiglement, domination, and manipulation.

Mr. Harris, I believe has used this "novel" to unveil more of his own political views on the British government and its war on terrorists.

Great read, will have to finish next week!

  

 

 

Sunday Salon - Hotel Stories by Mike Tyler

Would you like to live in a hotel for eight years? Mike Tyler author, poet, and singer(? see www.cutepoet.com) did. His girlfriend locked him out of his apartment and he settled in for while. He became the poet in residence.

Amy Hills saw this blog and sent me this book back in February and I guess I am not a "hip" reader.

Hotel Stores is a collection of short stories about Mike's life at the Carlton Arms in New York.

His style of writing is uncensored, true to life, and shows a no-holds barred approach. While I will not go into every detail of the book, you can imagine what really goes on in a New York City hotel for eight years!

Mike does show characters just as we see them in everyday life. Open, closed, sexy, pure, philosophic, drug users, and "friendships" are some of the traits shown in Hotel Stories.

My final thoughts are no this is not my kind of book, but you will have to judge for yourself!

Sunday Salon - Final Review for Iris and Ruby

As I read and thought about my Grandmother whom I called Nanny, my heart was yearning for the glorious cheese sandwiches she made for me when I slept over.

My relationship with Nanny was not as profound as Ruby's was with Iris. She did not have the past lovers or life setting that living in Cairo, Egypt provided. She also was not a doctor like Iris, but as a kid I thought she was a "healer."

This picture of life that Rosie Thomas so elegantly portrays in a manner that shows the link between two completely different people. There is more depth to the story than a love novel and this attribute leaves you thinking of the noble aspects of life.

Having never been abroad, the description of the beautiful Cairo made me want to be there. It seems as if during and shortly after WWII, Cairo was the place to be!

Wouldn't you like to read Iris and Ruby, I did!