When Pandora, a successful entrepreneur living in Iowa with her stepchildren and her financially unsuccessful, "addicted to exercise" husband, arrives at the airport to pick up Edison, her older brother, he's gone from a very attractive slim and hip guy to a morbidly obese man in a wheelchair.
What do you do? What can you say? Do you ignore the elephant in the room?
Her brother, a talented jazz musician has been in a downward career spiral for some time, and overate in a "big" way to deaden his personal pain. He and Pandora grew up in Hollywood in a very visible, dysfunctional family. Their mother may have committed suicide, and their father, a washed up television star, contacts them every so often to gleefully criticize any failures and ignore any accomplishments.
But Pandora has always adored her brother, and wants to save him, and she's faced with a choice. She can try to change the path her brother has taken, find out the real reason he's over eating, and force him to go on a diet with her support, or she can drive him back to the airport and let
him get on with the destruction of his body and his life. One choice may destroy her marriage, the other her brother.
Lionel Shriver, a National Book Award finalist So Much for That and author of the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, writes about marriage, family ties and obesity with wit and sensitivity. She tackles an issue that is extremely personal, yet socially obvious and ostracizing. And she throws in a plot twist that you don't see coming. ~ Katherine
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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Author: Katherine Howe
Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie’s grandmother’s abandoned home near Salem, she can’t refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. This discovery launches Connie on a quest—to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge.
As the pieces of Deliverance’s harrowing story begin to fall into place, Connie is haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials, and she begins to fear that she is more tied to Salem’s dark past then she could have ever imagined.
I really liked this book. Although I didn't find it scary, I did find it very interesting.
Dance of the Winnebagos Jackrabbit Junction Mystery - Volume 1
Author: Ann Charles
From the Multiple National Award-winning Author of the Deadwood Mystery Series! "Ann Charles delivers laugh-out-loud dialogue, unforgettable characters, and pulse-pounding suspense." ~Vicki Lewis Thompson, New York Times Bestselling Author When Claire's grandfather and his army buddies converge in the Arizona desert to find new wives, it's her thankless job to keep them out of trouble with the opposite sex. But when she finds a human leg bone and partners with a reluctant geotechnician to dig up secrets from the past, trouble finds her. If she doesn't stop digging, she could end up dead.
I really enjoy this author. She makes mysteries interesting and very funny. There's a nice element of romance which I normally don't like but I think she writes it very well.
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