tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8598511041283954365.post6193908119723867634..comments2023-10-01T06:51:21.728-04:00Comments on Lost in the Library: Wednesday's Worthwhile ReadsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8598511041283954365.post-65485797622091707252010-10-22T18:14:18.279-04:002010-10-22T18:14:18.279-04:00Hi Becky!
I'm so happy you participated! To li...Hi Becky!<br />I'm so happy you participated! To link you, just need to add your info to the Mr.Linky. That enables viewers to click and visit your blog and your review. Hope that helps.Library Gal @Lost in the Libraryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06919750239433212579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8598511041283954365.post-604250855866226222010-10-22T11:16:35.944-04:002010-10-22T11:16:35.944-04:00Hi!
First of all, I'm visiting (and followin...Hi! <br /><br />First of all, I'm visiting (and following you, now) from the Friday blog hop. If you want to return the favor, I'm <a href="http://thebookfrog.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">The Book Frog</a>.<br /><br />I'd like to recommend the works of Charles McCarry. In particular, I have linked my review of his book <i>Shelley's Heart</i>, a political novel published in 1995 and reprinted last year by Overlook Press. <br /><br />McCarry's body of work, for the most part, relates the lives and careers of two families who have intermarried with one another for generations, the Christophers and the Hubbards. The spy fiction follows Paul Christopher, poet and deep undercover operative (a position that McCarry himself held with the CIA in the late fifties and early sixties); the political fiction centers on the Hubbards who work in the political arena, at high levels but in crucial support positions (sometimes in the public eye, sometimes behind the scenes). Together these novels tell an alternative--and sometimes prescient--history of the U.S. In <i>The Better Angels</i>, first published in 1979, the Hubbards help to steal a presidential election in much the same way, one might posit, that the election of 2000 was stolen. Not only that, but in this same novel a terrorist organization uses a commercial jet airliner as a weapon. <br /><br /><i>Shelley's Heart</i>, originally published in 1995 and rereleased just this year, takes up mere months after <i>The Better Angels</i> ends. The stolen election has been made public and there is a campaign to remove the incredibly popular incumbent, Bedford Forrest Lockwood, down home man-of-the-people, champion of liberal causes, from office and swear in his opponent, former president Franklin Mallory. <br /><br />You ask for a cover image, but I'm not sure how to link one here...but I hope you'll visit, and maybe follow.<br /><br />Becky (<a href="http://thebookfrog.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">The Book Frog</a>)Rebecca Glennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11497012798954379217noreply@blogger.com