Three Hours in Paris by Cara Black

Three Hours in Paris

by Cara Black

Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Spy fiction, Historical mystery

Not a huge World War II reader, not a huge spy novel reader; put those issues aside and it was a great book. 

The premise of the characters ;the multiple German approaches ,then the British multiple approaches taken back-and-forth. I loved it a lot the way it was presented. You cannot trust anybody in that world. Quick read, fun read, go check it out.

What NYT started saying “Cara Black’s Three Hours in Paris is a highly entertaining historical thriller of espionage and political double-dealing set in the unique atmosphere of Paris during the Nazi occupation...”

Piece of mind Michelle Adelman

Piece of mind Michelle Adelman

It discusses the courage it takes to break my face life each day as individuals and families together and alone as well as falling in and out of them in and out of dependences

When you have no choice you find a way to get things done but nothing you don’t dwell just do when you do you realize a lot of things take care of themselves.

Second Sleep . by Robert Harris.

Second Sleep . 

by Robert Harris.

1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. .. Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth. Over the course of the next six days, everything he believes--about himself, his faith, and the history of his world--will be tested to destruction.

1468 I assumed was during the birth of the renaissance in Europe- wrong

Cathedrals spoke of organized religion the way we are familiar with it - wrong.

Slow starting book means bad book- wrong.

Though a less than satisfactory ending I enjoyed the book and it quickly went by. Call to discuss don’t want to be a spoiler!

Life After Google by George Gilder

Life After Google by George Gilder

Much of the rest of Life reads as a stream of consciousness chock full of references to some of the biggest names in technology, along with lots of insider-y tech talk. As for bitcoin itself, it’s a junk currency.  It is because in terms of volatility, it exhibits all the dollar’s worst qualities in exponentially greater fashion. 


Google offers to its “customers” is free. Internet searches are free. Email is free. The vast resources of the data centers, costing Google an estimated thirty billion dollars to build, are provided essentially for free. Free is not by accident. If your business plan is to have access to the data of the entire world, then free is an imperative.


Money, like the cosmos, has become relativistic and reversible at will. The three hundred years of Newtonian prosperity having come to an end, the new multiverse seems unable to repeat the miracle of a golden age of capitalism. It is now widely held that citizens are essentially owned by the state on which they depend. Slavery, in the form of servitude to governments, is making a comeback as money transactions become less trustworthy.

Thinking is conscious, willful, imaginative, and creative. A computer running at gigahertz speeds and playing a deterministic game like chess or Go is only a machine.

The economy has arrived at a point where it produces enough in principle for everyone… So this new period we are entering is not so much about production anymore — how much is produced; it is about distribution — how people get a share in what is produced.Life After Google by George Gilder

Much of the rest of Life reads as a stream of consciousness chock full of references to some of the biggest names in technology, along with lots of insider-y tech talk. As for bitcoin itself, it’s a junk currency.  It is because in terms of volatility, it exhibits all the dollar’s worst qualities in exponentially greater fashion. 


Google offers to its “customers” is free. Internet searches are free. Email is free. The vast resources of the data centers, costing Google an estimated thirty billion dollars to build, are provided essentially for free. Free is not by accident. If your business plan is to have access to the data of the entire world, then free is an imperative.


Money, like the cosmos, has become relativistic and reversible at will. The three hundred years of Newtonian prosperity having come to an end, the new multiverse seems unable to repeat the miracle of a golden age of capitalism. It is now widely held that citizens are essentially owned by the state on which they depend. Slavery, in the form of servitude to governments, is making a comeback as money transactions become less trustworthy.

Thinking is conscious, willful, imaginative, and creative. A computer running at gigahertz speeds and playing a deterministic game like chess or Go is only a machine.

The economy has arrived at a point where it produces enough in principle for everyone… So this new period we are entering is not so much about production anymore — how much is produced; it is about distribution — how people get a share in what is produced.

The dutch house. By Ann Patchett

The dutch house 

By Ann Patchett

Ok Brigham I confess I’m enjoying it. What’s not to like about sentences like:

-But that’s where we wound up: like swallows like salmon with a helpless captives of our migratory patterns.

-to list the things I didn’t ask my father about would be to list the stars in heaven, so let me throw out one:

“ we were for filling the expectations that have been set for us: the sons of doctors were expected to become doctors because back in the day medicine was still where the smart kids went a handful of them in my medical school class who knows maybe they were one to actually want to be there ... immigrants were expected to become doctors in order to make a better life for their families and others had been driven to work the hardest be the smartest respect

“ I learned a lot about Celeste in the year she been gone I came to see her willingness to not be a distraction as something that took effort I didn’t even know how to be grateful for it; until I was with other women who wanted to read the articles from the paper in the morning I was studying or read me their horoscope for my horoscope explain their feelings to me or crying over the fact that I never explained my feelings to them. Celeste had been so adept at making me her job that I hadn’t seen her doing it l. It wasn’t until after she left that I realize she stayed till Sunday nights because Sunday was when she wash the sheets and the rest of the laundry made the bed and got back in it. 

And so I made the decision to change it might seem like change is impossible with my nature and my age but I understood exactly what there was to lose. It was chemistry all over again. The point was it whether I like or not I liked it . the point was it had to be done.

Back of Candlelight

I think this is on the border of being a romance novel. it’s smart women,in a small town,the bookstore is a central player in the story. Where all the main characters are single women, of various races, ethnicitites persuasions except one - There are multiple second-tier men in the story as well though they are not critical, essential yes, Not critical.

Bibliotherapy words have power to hurt and heal but can do both. will hurt because they’ll give voice to the pain you’re feeling then they’ll help you heal. 

Life of our Lord by Charles Dickens

Life of our Lord 

by Charles Dickens

Between 1846 and 1849 Charles Dickens wrote The Life of our Lord;  The New English version of the gospels,  the story of Christ. He wanted to make sure it was in the language that his children could understand this was just for his kids. They were never published as a book and he made others promise they would not publish it either. Once they were all dead , a grandson , published it in 1934. It was never counted among his published works, millions and millions of copies. His purpose was simple to teach his children about the life in history of Jesus Christ to bring your tears of mercy and forgiveness.

Read it in one day that was meant to be read that way. He made  it easy to read and comprehend the story of Christ Jesus. Power of the scriptures I found it a good Christmas activity.

“It is Christianity to do good always, even to those who do evil to us. It is Christianity to love our neighbors as ourselves, and to do to all men as we would have them do to us. 

It is Christianity to be gentle, merciful and forgiving, and to keep those qualities quiet in our own hearts, never make a boast of them or of our  prayers or of  our love of God, but always to show that we love him by humbly trying to do the right in everything. If we do this, and remember the life and lessons of our Lord Jesus Christ and try to act up to them, we may confidently hope that God will forgive us our sins and mistakes and enable us to live and die in peace.

The Murmur of Bees

The Murmur of Bees Sophia Segovia 

 The main story focuses on the Morales Cortés family in Linares, north of Mexico, during the Mexican Revolution in the early 1900s and the scourge of the Spanish flu epidemic. An unpredictable love story of beautiful versatility and dedication to the family, to life, to land and to a brother that has always been waiting. But, also, a story of a betrayal that could end everything.

...and by the rapturous smells of “oranges, blossoms, and honey. Without the bees swarming around him, coming and going, the information he received from the world was linear; while with them, from the moment he had begun to feel sensation, he had grown accustomed to perceiving the world as it was: a sphere.” the changes in his community, the adventures and misfortunes, and, most of all, how Simonopio, a young boy that has a strong intuition to foretell future events, manages to change the history of the family that takes him in and of the whole region

And then told themselves everything was back to normal. Lost in Hardwork they forgot that the families living in exile as far away as possible from ...

Delighted him that his was a story that never been written down. Being in possession of that story meant Simonopio could make endless changes… He does not put it in writing enjoy the freedom to reshape it at will

“ that “you leave a place or say goodbye to someone, and thereafter, you feel the existence you have left behind is frozen by your absence.”

..life had no guarantees regardless of how many plans were made ... while life did not make promises sometimes it offered opportunities... 

... it was if she lived only half life in complete in both places after that because after the experience of three months in exile she knew that life stopped for nothing, not even for the needs of a woman abandoning everything, albeit temporarily to be with her daughters to get to know her grandchildren… She felt The relationship would change she would be left outside like an intruder in her own home , a voyeur who can only look into a cracked closed window. 

The world is for the living ... When should I claim to old habits in a longer work in changing world even if it felt as if they had been hit by another revolution

... It doesn’t matter whether Time passes slowly or quickly. What you can be sure of is that in the end all you want is to have more. ...

If he had his wife in front of him just one more time, and find a way to repeat in the single look all of the tender words that he had said to her since they met. He would make sure that this last look would even create new words just for her.

The permanent absence of her husband had given her no choice but to admit it out loud life offers no guarantees to anyone and waits for nobody has no consideration for anyone

Houses die when they are not fed with their owners energy… Living house where I was born gave me everything that defined it when I left...

How did the bees do it ... it was important to listen to listen to what life sometimes murmurs into your ear, heart, or gut. Listen carefully and pay attention, Francisco. 

Tell the story to my children they only know pieces of it it’s time for them to know at all tell them I love them very much they’re worth the years I spent that see my brother tell them to walk in the shade to listen with their eyes to see what their skin feel with their ears because life speaks to us all just need to know wait to listen to it see it feel it I know all too well that these lessons come late but I wasn’t ready to teach them until today.

We walk without looking back because on this journey all we care about is our Destination

Remind you of the ending of Chronicles of Narnia as they walk to the greenline remind you of the ending of great divorce as people walk to where they become real to having