Two Scribes & a Bit More
From pinterest.com: Grace under fire, posted by Suga Plum:
Some days it seems all Americans have mindboggling skeletons in their closets. Geez.
Excerpt from a foxnews.com article by Michael Dorgan: “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Monday that Ukraine had captured a Russian position using an entirely unmanned robot ground force.” Wow!
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Alex Michaelides was born and raised in Cyprus. He has an M.A. in English Literature from Trinity College, Cambridge University, and an M.A. in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute in L. A.. The Silent Patient was his first novel, debuting at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. It has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide. The rights have been sold in a record-breaking 51 countries, and the book has been optioned for film. I just finished it. Published in 2017, it is the story of a successful artist who murders her husband and falls silent. She is institutionalized, where a thirty-something psychotherapist tries to get through to her. Throughout most of the narrative I wasn’t sure if it would turn into mystery genre, such is the depth of characterization. The writing is as good as it gets, smooth sailing. The 323 pages of the large paperback edition read like far less, many blanks along the way. If English wasn’t Michaelides’ first language, his skill is even more remarkable. I wonder how many readers would anticipate the twist. I didn’t. An astonishing 412,000+ users at Amazon have rated The Silent Patient, forging to a consensus of 4.2 on a scale of five. I’ll go with four. It is still selling well. This must be one of the best debut novels ever. Michaelides has followed up with two others. Kudos, Sir. Photo from Google Images:
Last night Grit, channel 31–3 on OTA in NYC, ran a western I had no recollection of: Shoot Out (1970), a standard revenge yarn starring Gregory Peck and a host of familiar faces, directed by Henry Hathway, who helmed 67 films, many of them solid entertainment. Dawn Lynn steals the show as a little girl who may or may not be the daughter of Peck’s character. Among the cast is Elizabeth Harrower in a brief role as a housekeeper. She was completely unfamiliar to me. There are 88 titles under her name at IMDb, her film roles listed mostly as uncredited. She did a lot of TV, radio and stage work. She was also a writer involved in 282 episodes of Days of Our Lives, 469 of Generations, 407 of The Young and the Restless, 21 of Texas. She also wrote for Ryan’s Hope in 1985. A mom of one, she passed away at 85 in 2003. Awesome, Madam. Photo from GI:
Among today’s celebrations, it’s National Donate a Book Day. If people hear about it, it may be bombs away at the Anti-Inflation Book Shop… It wasn’t. It was just short of hot today at my nook. My thanks to the woman who donated ten books, and to Lynn, who bought the 75th Anniversary edition of The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien; and to the gentleman who bought the DVD of The Boys of 2nd Street Park (2003); and to the man who took home the DVD of Sex and the City (2008), Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren, and five paperbacks in Russian… I am frequently amazed by what people on the street divulge. A gentleman waiting for a ride engaged me in conversation. 49, he’s been on disability for several years and prescribed Xanax for the pain. He took two one night and his wife of 13 years took the rest. He found her lifeless beside him in the morning. She’d believed people were praticing Santeria against her. The woes some unfortunate souls have to live with — man.
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