![]() The subsequent trial commenced on October 5th and was concluded in two days. In both incidents, Gilmore instructed his compliant victim to lie face down on the floor before shooting them in the head. Gilmore’s victims were Max Jensen, a gas station attendant in Orem and Ben Bushnell, a motel manager in Provo. Less than six months earlier, on the morning of July 21st 1976, Gilmore had been arrested on the outskirts of Provo in Utah on suspicion of armed robbery and double homicide. ![]() Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself At 8:07a.m on January 17th 1977, Gary Mark Gilmore was executed just outside the grounds of Utah State Prison. ![]() ![]() Matters of grave importance: style in Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song …to send my style through a circus of variations and postures, a fireworks of virtuosity… a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching style. ![]()
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![]() I appreciate the “sisterhood” of women and camaraderie of the men who are working during the war in such tragic and dangerous circumstances. ![]() I have enjoyed Jane Healey’s books in the past and this novel is one edgy and thought-provoking novel. The author depicts her colorful and dramatic characters as courageous, brave, complex, and complicated ![]() The timeline for this story is during World War Two. I love the way Jane Healey vividly describes the characters, the events, and the plot of this story. The genre for this novel is Historical Fiction. WOW! Jane Healey, the author of “The Secret Stealers” has written a captivating, intriguing, intense, suspenseful and memorable novel. ![]() Linda’s Book Obsession Reviews “The Secret Stealers” by Jane Healey, April 2021 on Tour with Suzy Approved Book Tours ![]() ![]() Even when the dollhouse isn’t physically present, it’s there. So, the dollhouse motif is what ties most of the story together. But she can explain! And then judge her if you dare. So, since Olivia time-traveled to the future and learned of Cathy’s bestselling memoir, she knows people probably judge her harshly for the whole attic thing, and the donuts and the tar and the whippings and all those times she asked her grandchildren if they were masturbating. It’s very Andrews, as is the total lack of consistency or continuity when such things would be inconvenient to the narrative. If this is the ghostwriter, I’m giving him kudos for the dramatic redundancy of “buried in my grave” when either “buried” or “in my grave” would have sufficed. ![]() Had others not decided to tell my story for their own gain, the secrets of the Foxworths would have been buried in my grave with me.īut Olivia died in the fire, so left this final document before Cathy published anything. But then, she says she’s been forced to leave this record because ![]() Her story! To be opened twenty years after her death! So far so good. It’s supposed to be an addendum to the Grandmother’s will. ![]() For earlier entries, check out the archive.įirst of all, the prologue makes no sense. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for Recursion "An action-packed, brilliantly unique ride that had me up late and shirking responsibilities until I had devoured the last page. Together, Barry and Helena will have to confront their enemy-before they, and the world, are trapped in a loop of ever-growing chaos. ![]() In New York City, Detective Barry Sutton is closing in on the truth-and in a remote laboratory, neuroscientist Helena Smith is unaware that she alone holds the key to this mystery. It's just the first shock wave, unleashed by a stunning discovery-and what's in jeopardy is not our minds but the very fabric of time itself. But the force that's sweeping the world is no pathogen. An epidemic that spreads through no known means, driving its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. a heady campfire tale of a novel."-The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time From the bestselling author of Dark Matter and the Wayward Pines trilogy comes a relentless thriller about time, identity, and memory-his most mind-boggling, irresistible work to date, and the inspiration for Shondaland's upcoming Netflix film. ![]() ![]() In The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone chronicles the life of this extraordinary woman, who played an integral role in our nation's history for forty years. Though she and Friedman are in many ways the "Adam and Eve" of the NSA, Elizebeth's story, incredibly, has never been told. There she met the man who would become her husband, groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman. ![]() government, and he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new venture: code-breaking. In 1916, at the height of World War I, brilliant Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an eccentric tycoon on his estate outside Chicago. Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving puzzles that unmasked Nazi spies and helped win World War II. ![]() ![]() "Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie." - The New York Times ![]() |