![]() It is rather sweet, how it was wordless at first and then becomes one of the most important relationships in both their lives. They are polar opposites and you know what they say about opposites! Being forced to sit next to each other on the bus, a friendship forms between Park and Eleanor. There is a little confusion within himself about where he fits in amongst the two cultures. Park is a high schooler with an American father and a Korean mother. There are darker issues dealt with in the book, and I must say that the cover is a deception that masks the plot masterfully. ![]() As I began reading Eleanor & Park, I had to stop so often because it was definitely not a jolly good teenage love story. My delaying was my own issue – I just couldn’t get myself to turn the pages. ![]() I began this book on January first and finished it more two weeks later. ![]()
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![]() ![]() These days, Doc, a semi-retired intelligence operative scratching out a living as a marine biologist on Florida’s Sanibel Island, is gradually selling off his find. ![]() In fact, one of the plots picks up the story told in “Caribbean Rim,” when Doc outmaneuvered a bunch of thugs hunting Spanish gold in waters off the Bahamas and secretly made off with a portion of it for himself. ![]() But the book’s twin plots are far-fetched, even for a Doc Ford novel, and readers who aren’t already familiar with the relationships between the characters might feel a bit lost. White’s prose is better than OK, of course, and Doc’s fans will be pleased that old friends, including the protagonist’s love interest, Hannah Smith, and his aging hippie pal, Tomlinson, are part of the action. ![]() ![]() She does not agree that her son is the Son of God nor that his death was "worth it" nor that the "group of misfits he gathered around him, men who could not look a woman in the eye," were holy disciples. They are her keepers, providing her with food and shelter and visiting her regularly. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel. In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son's crucifixion. ![]() Meryl Streep’s performance of Colm Tóibín's acclaimed portrait of Mary is hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “an ideal audiobook,” presenting the three-time Academy Award-winner in “yet another great role.” Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Colm Tóibín's The Testament of Mary presents Mary as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity. ![]() |