Reviews

The Bolter is a scandalous biography of Idina Sackville written by her great-granddaughter who is married to the finance minister of England. It begins in the flapper age and continues until World War II. Idina was a blue-eyed beauty, elegant and smart.

This foreign film is a romantic comedy with subtitles. The french film has a simple plot, what would happen if two people who are friends or strangers decide to kiss. The result is a complex problem develops between. What will happen, I will not tell. But there is plenty of humor and melancholy  involved.

Organic Housekeeping (or Green Housekeeping as titled for the newer paperback version) is a useful and informative guide to green cleaning and organizing.

In a complete departure from what I would normally read, I chose to listen to the audio cd of Stardust by Neil Gaiman.  I made this choice after watching a piece about Gaiman on T.V.

Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn Childs is another fun read. Pheobe's world is turned upside down when her mom comes back from a vacation in Greece with a fiance and the announcement that she has to leave Los Angeles to move half way across the planet!

I really enjoyed this blast from the past. This dvd contains some of the most famous of the MJ videos. You can watch him change and evolve in the making of these music videos. I couldn't sit still while viewing these and never saw so many zippers, clasps and snaps in a 90 minute period.

In this well written, concise autobiography, Carmen Bin Laden goes beyond the usual "ain't it awful" stories about women's lives in the Islamic world. With eloquence showing deep reflection, she tells the history of the Kingdom and explains the conditions of women who practice Wahhabi Islam or who live under its power.

Solomita has been writing hardboiled police procedurals for years. His character of the rogue cop Stanley Moodrow from “Forced Entry” and “Damaged Goods” has always stuck with me. His most recent book is another police procedural with a new main character, Lenny Shaw. Shaw is the detective in the investigation of the death of a coma patient who is cared for at home.

Miss Match by Wendy Toliver is part of The Romantic Comedies series from Simon Pulse publishing. Sweet 16 Sasha has a gift of finding true loves (or homecoming dates) for her friends and classmates.