![]() ![]() Erlendur’s colleagues Sigurdur and Elínberg are annoyed at the drudgery involved in this effort, but eventually the team finds other victims of Holberg who hold the key to the killing. ![]() ![]() The sexist cop who caught the original rape case insulted the victim and allowed Holberg to walk. The news that Holberg was arrested for rape 30 years ago sends Erlendur on a difficult search among old records and hostile, forgetful witnesses. The divorced Erlendur must also struggle to get his combative, punked-out daughter Eva Lind away from her drug-drenched nightlife. When veteran Reykjavik police inspector Erlendur Sveinsson is called to a squalid basement flat to examine the corpse of an elderly man named Holberg, bludgeoned to death with a large ashtray, he finds on the scene a typed note with the cryptic message, “I am HIM.” Murder in Iceland is rare, and Erlendur is just coordinating his probe when two other crimes demand his attention: the assault of geriatric twin sisters in their home and the disappearance of a bride shortly after her wedding. An Icelandic detective investigates a murder with roots in the distant past. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Rachel soon meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop and is intent upon feeding her. ![]() Rachel is content to carry on subsisting - until her therapist encourages her to take a 90-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting. At night, she pedals to nowhere on the elliptical machine. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control through obsessive food rituals while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. Rachel is 24, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. This darkly hilarious and “delicious new novel that ravishes with sex and food” ( The Boston Globe ) from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today is a “precise blend of desire, discomfort, spirituality, and existential ache” ( BuzzFeed ). Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Time, Esquire, BookPage, and more ![]() ![]() Helyar is currently a columnist for Bloomberg News. He is the author of Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball. John Helyar has written for Fortune magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and ESPN. Bryan Burrough was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and is currently a special correspondent at Vanity Fair. Following their discussion, they responded to questions from the audience. The authors compare this era to the current financial crisis facing the United States. Helyar recount the several key players that wished to acquire the company and the lengths they went to in the hopes of securing control during a two-month battle in the fall of 1988. ![]() T17:13:07-05:00 Bryan Burrough and John Helyar revisited the corporate takeover of RJR Nabisco and the Wall Street culture of the 1980's in the 20th anniversary of the publication of their book, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco. ![]() ![]() I will admit, I read Redeeming Love five or so years ago and don’t remember thinking anything bad about it. ![]() One book that I comes up a lot is Francine Rivers’ Redeeming Love. “I think this is a romance novel.” I picked the book up once again, less enthusiastic about the plot to come.Īs a volunteer with my church’s youth group, I get a lot of questions from both parents and students asking if I would recommend a good book or a movie. “It’s a Christian fiction book about Hosea and his wife.”Īs I finished the chapter and began the next, I put the book down and looked at my husband. “It’s not a romance novel!” I asserted, indignant that he would accuse me of such a thing. Kevin noticed and asked, “How’s the romance novel?” ![]() ![]() I snuggled into the couch and flipped open to the bookmark. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I had tried to teach her,” Rosa says of her maternal style, “that nobody should be able to see when you were scared. ![]() ![]() Just when you begin to tire of their cruelty, indifference and narcissism, Bronsky feeds you a little tidbit from their past (Rosa was orphaned in World War II) or exposes their vulnerability. To the rest of the world, Aminat is a terror, a spoiled brat, a snotty-nosed urchin.īronsky’s plots consist of a series of obstacles - everyday living is a test of her characters’ survival skills. The baby, Aminat, is the love of Rosa’s life, the beautiful daughter she never had, her way out of Russia, her hope for the future. No one measures up in Rosa’s estimation, until Sulfia’s extra large stomach turns out to be an unwanted, unexpected pregnancy. And you can’t stop laughing when her transparent schemes for her family’s survival backfire. “I only hoped that her simplemindedness,” she says of her daughter, “might prove attractive enough to some man that he wouldn’t notice her awful legs until the two of them were already standing in front of a justice of the peace.” It’s possible you’ve never met anyone as self-centered and manipulative as Rosa. Rosa is not above using her considerable charms (she’s quite proud of her good looks) to get what she needs for her family, but she cannot believe how pathetic, passive and helpless they are. Poor Sulfia, 17, lives with Rosa and her father, Kalganow, in a communal apartment somewhere in Russia. Meet Rosa, Tartar matriarch and Mommy Dearest. ![]() |