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Michaelangelo's talents are so evident, even at an early age that other sculptors become jealous. Another sculptor acts on these feeling of jealousy & in an unprovoked rage hits Michaelangelo so hard, that it forever breaks the bridge of his nose.

Pretty boring so far as more like a travelogue of California as they try to escape the bad guys or is her husband the bad guy?

Hemingway's first published novel & his genius is already in brilliant prose especially when describing the horror of World War 1 as he draws on his experience of being terribly wounded while driving an ambulance, His dialogue is so clean & crisp even on his first novel, What a fantastic writer.

I thought I knew about the Revolutionary war, but this nonfiction has greatly exposed my ignorance. The Americans just captured most of the Canada Army set to destroy them- I have never even heard of this battle-5 BIG STARS ALL READY.

Lafayette is shot threw the left calf & later when asked about it says, " The wound is just a conversation starter at parties." What grit!!

While the first part of the book was thrilling, now that she has joined the circus, is boring-pretty close to DNF this one.

Early days of the Revolutionary War are going badly, Washinton ask for volunteers but hardly anyone comes forth. Of those who do come forth, smallpox ravages the troops until Washinton commands everyone gets inoculated,

Entire non-fiction book can be summarized as Hillary has no idea what platforms she wants to run on & is a mean & cruel candidate to her staff.

I was right about the Boyfriend who Arielle finally dumped but not after he put her through emotional Hell so let's hope she finds true love & soon. At least the sex was wild & amazing with Arielle & him.

Arielle writing is so courageous & bares her soul about her love life. I am concerned about her being too enamored with the Musician & hope he does not break her heart. This will be a 5 -star review for sure.

While young Jacob is being showed the ropes of his totally luckily discovered newfound circus home, old Jacob is being kept sedated with drugs in an old folk's home.

Weir marriage of main character as is not consummated.

Morrison's style of writing is disjointed as she starts chapters in different time period-some go past-some way past so is hard to get a feel on what is really going on in novel.

The amount of backstabbing & lying is unbelievable as everyone is trying to save their egos.

While I have trouble rooting for the main character(wow is she messed up) from pages 120-140 is spine tingling writing on the interview with the shrink who may or may not be the serial killer.

The first meeting of Grant & Lee in Mexico so dripping with foreshadowing.

Already a five-star read. Robert E. Lee is shot at for the first time & General Winfried Scott gives him orders.
"You know how to build a fort, let's see if you can destroy a fort." Wow what intriguing dialogue-makes history come alive.

The Reva women have terribly taste in men.

While enjoying the novel, the author's use of Spanish words is annoying.

The author, Graham Greene can certainly write lines that jump off the page at you. Page 20="Daintry's smile resembled the painful reopening of a wound." Page 126" If fear and love are indivisible, so are fear and hate."

The mail to Frankie from her mother is hilarious.

Intriguing novel about a Scotland Yard detective battling his own World War 1 ghosts from the trenches he gets a case of a family that has way too many "accidental" deaths.

Riveting adventure of six going for fortune & glory adventurers out to kill a dastardly king. Has enough excitement for any adrenaline junkie.

In the prequel to Lonesome Dove, we meet Blue Duck who gave Woodrow & Gus so much trouble in Lonesome Dove.

Lincoln was so vilified by the Southern States that 10 Southern States refused to put his name on the Presidential ballot. The US House Of Representatives was so divided that it took seven weeks to finally vote in the house majority speaker,

Would like just one character to be happy in this book for 2 pages!!

Our weary travelers find 2 scalped miners.

A posse with our heroes & Wild Bill Hickok that gets into an ambush shootout. That's as good as it gets!