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Books: Trashy Paperbacks, Historical Fiction Book Review, and the Diaries of a Famous- Favorite Actor
What have you read lately?
The last few books I’ve read have been just okay. Truly, I struggled to finish one about some stolen and cursed Druid Gold and was super glad I finished it. Now I am reading a relatively new novel by the recently deceased Stuart Woods. It’s the first of the 75 novels he’d written in his lifetime that I’ve read. It’s just okay too, but written well and moves quickly. It’s a mob story though; I’m not really into that. Both these books I got free by helping at a local book sale this summer. I also got Chiefs by Woods, which apparently was his first novel and one of his most famous.
I’ll have to wait a while to read that one because I ordered the Alan Rickman book, Madly, Deeply, which contains a compilation of his scrap diary entries. Like many, I’ve been a longtime fan of Rickman’s. One movie I really liked him in was, “Something the Lord Made,” which was the Vivian Thomas — Alfred Blalock story of a revolutionary infant surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital for those born with Tetrology of Fallot, a congenital heart condition. I suppose that I like the movie because I worked at Johns Hopkins for several years with babies. But, the story is one worth watching. It was released as a made-for-TV movie in 2004. I’ll…
