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I read, and if you read, then you'll understand why I like to talk about what I read.
Book Review: The Shadows
I picked up The Shadows by Alex North with no hesitation because I loved, loved, loved Whisper Man. It begins promising, and it held my attention, but I'm sorry to report that I didn't love it – but it's for a very specific reason.
The Shadows tells the story of Paul Adams, who, after 25 years, has to return to his hometown to help his sick mother. He doesn't want to go home because bad things happened when he was a kid – specifically a gruesome murder committed by Charlie Crabtree, one of Paul's friends.
Of course, odd things start happening as soon as Paul returns, and his mother insists that something -or someone – is creeping around the house.
The story is full of suspense, and you're definitely driven to find the answers to WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON.
Without giving away too much, I'll tell you why I didn't love The Shadows as much as Whisper Man: it uses lucid dreaming as a trope, and I'm not a fan of lucid dreaming.
I've read two other books that use lucid dreaming as a main feature – The Anatomy of Dreams and Behind Her Eyes – and it was a turn-off for me. So, this was the third and final book I ever want to read about lucid dreaming. If that's a thing that intrigues you, then this book is for you! If it doesn't bother you one way or another, then I recommend The Shadows for sure.
But if you're like me and roll your eyes at the concept of lucid dreaming, then The Shadows will be a quick pass.
Book Review: The Sentence is Death
This is the second in what I hope becomes a long series in which Anthony Horowitz, the author, writes himself into the narrative. His first work like this, The Word is Murder, was incredibly clever, and The Sentence of Death follows suit.
Once again, the Sherlock-ish private detective Daniel Hawthorne asks Anthony, a crime/thriller novelist, to help him solve a mystery by serving as his Watson. This time, a celebrity divorce lawyer Richard Pryce was found dead in his home – knocked out and killed by someone with an expensive bottle of wine.
The story is told through Anthony's point of view, so it's as if we're getting Watson's narration of how annoying and clever Sherlock – or Daniel Hawthorne – can be. I know it seems odd to have the author insert himself as a fictional (yet real?) character, but trust me – Horowitz makes it work. It is very well done.
The twisty, turvy mystery slowly unwinds as Hawthorne and Horowitz interview suspects and gather clues. They are an entertaining pair, and the unraveling of who murdered Pryce (and why) kept me engaged. However, I wouldn't start this one without reading The Word is Murder first. You need a proper introduction to these guys.
Book Review: The Midnight Library
At least once a year I read a book that I push on everyone like a crazy person. One time it was Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman. Another time it was Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney. I know I told everyone to read Homegoing by Yea Gyasi.
Anyway, published in 2020, the book everyone needs to read now is The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Initially, it sounds incredibly depressing, but this novel is a story of HOPE, and it answers the big questions we inevitably ask ourselves: What if I had made other choices in my life? Where would I be now?
The story follows Nora Seed, a young woman who wants to die and finally decides to make that wish come true. You know this is her path because the narrative begins with that warning. It isn't the most cheerful way to begin a story.
At the moment of her death, or what we think is her death, Nora leaves the site of her lifeless body and enters The Midnight Library, lovingly tended to by her childhood librarian, Mrs. Elm. There, she learns that each book on the shelf represents a possible life – infinite lives – that reflects every time she could've made a different choice. What would her life had been like if she'd chosen a different line of work? Married a certain man? Moved to a different country? Every decision, no matter how big or small, leads to a different outcome.
"The books are portals to all the lives you could be living," says Mrs. Elm.
Incredibly, we follow Nora on her journey to find a happier life, one where she can choose to stay, if she really loves it. The Midnight Library is not heaven; it's the hub of your own personal multi-verse where you can elect to try a different you.
As with any choice, there are stakes. There are risks. One life has certain people in it, while another life does not. Each chapter shows Nora navigating these choices while the clock is ticking. After all, if she truly wants to die, that's exactly what will happen, and time is running out.
I loved this book so dearly that I listened to it twice on Audible and then bought a hard copy to read again. (If you're into audiobooks, I highly recommend listening to it. Carey Mulligan is an excellent narrator.)
Without fail, it was my favorite book in 2020. It will be a favorite for a very long time. Read it, read it, read it.
Book Review: The Evening and the Morning
In 2007, Oprah Winfrey selected The Pillars of the Earth for her book club. I'd been on a reading kick with Oprah's selections (it's how I discovered She's Come Undone, one of my ultimate favorites), so when she went on and on about Pillars, despite it being 900+ pages, I decided to give it a try.
Never before had I read a book so engrossing about a subject I knew nothing about: the building of a cathedral in the Middle Ages. It was lengthy and hard to read in certain parts because I wasn't accustomed to so many details about torture and journeying and long-suffering plans to build cathedral by hand and plots to thwart a greedy, power-hungry bishop.
AND STILL I was hooked. I went on to love the sequel, World Without End, and the final in the Kingsbridge trilogy, A Column of Fire.
Earlier in 2020, I heard Ken Follett had written a prequel to Pillars, and admittedly, I was skeptical. A prequel? I mean, I was going to buy it no matter what, but I couldn't wrap my brain about what topics the book might cover.
Set at the end of the Anglo-Saxon age in England (late-900s), The Evening and the Morning follows three main characters and their respective journeys – Edgar, a boat builder and honest man, Ragna, a noblewoman from France who attempts to build a new life in England, and Alfred, a monk whose efforts to stay true to his purpose is challenged at every turn. Ultimately, this is the story of how Kingsbridge became a town.
Anglo-Saxon England was troubled by recurring Viking attacks, a flimsy legal system, and poor living conditions since all the Romans left behind were roads (which was helpful, I guess). The new band of characters, per usual, have to fight against power-hungry people who use the system for personal gain, leaving bodies in their wake. If you've read Ken Follett's trilogies before (either Kingsbridge or the Century Trilogy), then you know there will be hiccups, obstacles, and heartache.
But there is also triumph. You know something good will come at the end. You just don't know the journey required to get there. I loved this book. I read it over Christmas break because I knew I'd need the distraction. It worked perfectly.
Disclaimer: Ken Follett gets a lot of grief for some of his love scenes and, alternately, the scenes with sexual assault. You can expect that trend to continue here. Feel free to skim those words.
Book Review: His and Hers
Like any conflict, there are two sides of the story, and then there's the truth. In His & Hers, readers hear from three voices – Anna Andrews, a lunchtime television presenter on the BBC, DCI Jack Harper, who's investigating the death of someone he recognizes in his hometown, and an undisclosed third narrator who knows exactly what's going on.
This psychological thriller is set in fictional Blackdown, a small town in the English countryside and exactly the sort of place where I daydream about living. Anna is attractive and clever, keen to keep her highly sought position at the BBC, but someone who ought to drink a little less. She is divorced from DCI Jack Harper, who is so likable and so clearly still attracted to his ex-wife. Their two sides of the story are filled with interesting details based on their upbringings, relationships, and current working relationship as a TV journalist and detective. The alternating narrations keep you wondering about their WHOLE story and how it might (or might not) relate to the murder victim.
The third narrator is clearly the killer, but, of course, we don't find out who it is until the end.
Now, if you know me in real life, I've likely pushed Sometimes I Lie on you. I dearly loved that book and have listened to it three times on Audible. Unfortunately, I didn't love Feeney's second novel, I Know Who You Are, so I probably didn't even mention reading it to anyone. (It was one of those books that, when you get to the end, you're thinking, "Really?")
When His & Hers came out in 2020, I gave it a chance and it was well worth it. I am a sucker for good thrillers, and this one didn't disappoint. You'll move through it quickly.
Book review: The Making of Us
Having enjoyed a few of Lisa Jewell's recent novels (The Family Upstairs, The House We Grew Up In, I Found You), I went back to some of her earlier work and chose The Making of Us (2012). It isn't a thriller or mystery; rather, it's an unsuspecting family drama.
The story centers around four people: Lydia is a wealthy, successful single woman who plagued by loneliness. Dean is suddenly a single dad who's definitely not ready for the responsibility. Robyn is young and vibrant, on track to attend medical school and start a fabulous life, but… She too isn't completely happy. The fourth person is the one who binds them all together.
Though the story wasn't a full mystery (you find out soon enough who the fourth person is along with the secret he's keeping), I enjoyed the steady unfolding of details as the three main characters grappled with their lives. I ended up rooting for them, hoping they'd weave together and make all the right choices. The title – The Making of Us – gives it away on some level. The "Us" is a work-in-progress, and it's the reader who gets to watch it all pull together.
I will say that this story has more characters than what's necessary. I wound up expecting more from a couple of them because they seemed more prominent than they actually were. In the end, I felt like a couple of storylines seemed pointless, like they could've been omitted and the story wouldn't have been any better or worse.
The bottom line is that I enjoy Lisa Jewell's writing style enough that I'm happy to play along and go where the story leads. The Making of Us doesn't hold a candle to The Family Upstairs or The House We Grew Up In, but it was still a good read and left me with some brewing thoughts about what makes a family.
Book Review: The Whisper Man
Frank Carter, known as The Whisper Man, was a serial killer captured and imprisoned for luring children out of their homes by whispering to them through windows and doors. He became a legend in his small town and sowed fear into the hearts of Featherbank's residents.
Fast forward to today: Tom Kennedy moves with his son, Jake, to Featherbank after the sudden death of his wife. A fresh start on a new life is just what they need. All seems to be moving along as planned until a young boy in Jake's class disappears, reigniting old stories and unearthing buried fears about old Frank Carter's crimes. Detectives Amanda Beck and Pete Willis are determined to find the missing child before it's too late.
Of course, then Jake starts acting funny, and then he starts hearing whispers…
If you leave a door half-open, soon you'll hear the whispers spoken.
If you play outside alone, soon you won't be going home.
If your window's left unlatched, you'll hear him tapping at the glass.
If you're lonely, sad, and blue, the Whisper Man will come for you.
Atmospheric, tense, and utterly gripping, The Whisper Man was a fun ride. It wasn't so creepy that I couldn't read it at night (I'm looking at you, Winter People), but it so well-paced and anxiety-ridden that I really needed to finish it as soon as possible so I could rest my mind. Super fun! I'm really looking forward to Alex North's next book, The Shadows.
Book Review: Mr. Nobody
A man washes up on a British beach having no idea who he is, where he came from, or where he's going. The press (and medical professionals) call him Mr. Nobody. Dr. Emma Lewis, a neuropsychiatrist, is asked to assess him, and she has a keen sense to know what might be wrong.
While Mr. Nobody is advertised as a thriller, it doesn't unfold in an edge-of-your-seat way. There is a steady transmission of fragmented information about both Dr. Lewis and Mr. Nobody, and, as the reader, you're constantly trying to figure out why and how these two people are connected. That in itself is a mystery.
It isn't a nail-biter, but it's still an interesting medical (and criminal) journey that's good enough to take you away from the present time.
I prefer Catherine Steadman's other book, Something in the Water, over Mr. Nobody, but I liked this new one enough that I'll read the third book she writes. I appreciate her prose. As an actress, Catherine Steadman understands how to keep an audience's attention, whether it's on film or on the page.
Even though Mr. Nobody wasn't gripping minute-to-minute, it still kept my attention and provided a satisfying end.
Book Review: The House We Grew Up In
I was already a fan of Lisa Jewell's work, specifically of The Family Upstairs, and I devoured her latest book with the same fervor.
The Birds live in a picturesque Cotswolds village. There are six of them: married couple Lorelei and Colin and their four children – Meg, Beth, and twins Rory and Rhys. Everything about the kids' childhood feels perfect. Lorelei goes out of her way to make every day extra special, especially on holidays. She loves her family and lives in the moment at all times.
Yet, it's on an Easter weekend when tragedy hits the Birds, and everything upends. What unfolds is a family drama about how each person manages him or herself amid devastation. Coping skills aren't cookie-cutter. Everyone hurts and loves in a different way.
This isn't a thriller in the traditional sense, but The House We Grew Up In has the pacing required for a steady pageturner. I listened to the audiobook version and finished it in a matter of days. Admittedly, some of the bigger plot points hit very close to home, so I was drawn to the story even more than I thought I'd be.
Beautifully written, perfectly paced, with a satisfying end. Highly recommend.
Book Review: Kindred
Having read some of Octavia Butler's work before, I knew reading Kindred was going to be an emotional journey. It did not disappoint.
Dana is a young, African American woman in 1976 California. She and her husband, Kevin, a white man, are in the process of moving into their new home when Dana suffers a dizzy spell and is suddenly time-traveled to pre-Civil War Maryland – to the exact plantation where she knows her ancestors lived. Moments after arriving, she saves a young, white boy, Rufus, from drowning, an event she later determines was the catalyst for her time travel. It's this relationship with Rufus that keeps her going back and forth in time. Eventually, Kevin is pulled through the tether too, an experience that gives him a new perspective on American history.
I'm not sure anyone can get excited about reading a book where a modern African American woman travels back in time to the Antebellum South, but not all reading should be for fun. Sometimes it's good to read a book, even if it's fiction, to deepen your understanding of our human experience. Even the ugly parts.
Book Review: The Family Upstairs
Libby Jones is a young London woman who knows she's adopted. She's fine with this, though she's always been curious about her origins and biological family. When an inheritance for a large home in Chelsea falls in her lap upon her 25th birthday, the details of her birth family begin to unfurl. She has no idea what to do with the things she learns.
The story is told from three perspectives, the first and most obvious being Libby's. The two other voices are a homeless street performer (with her two children) who plays the fiddle for coins on the Côte d'Azur, and a man who tells his story in the first person as if he's writing a letter.
We knew these three people are connected, but we need to reach the length of the book to put all the pieces together.
And wow. What a story – suspense at every turn, an ever-growing list of nagging questions, and the sort of chapter endings that do not allow you to stop reading, or in my case, stop listening. I finished it in three days because I had to know who Libby really was and how this man and woman were connected to her.
The Family Upstairs is as much of a family saga as it is a mystery. There is death and intrigue, lost love and relational turmoil. The story is full of twists and turns, and even when the three main characters finally collide, there are still truths to unearth.
This was my first introduction to Lisa Jewell's work, and I'm already into Then She Was Gone. I listened to The Family Upstairs on Audible, and I'm glad I did because I'll surely listen to it again.
Book Review: Rebecca
Teaching English at our co-op has reignited my interest in the classics, and one glaring void on my shelf was Rebecca. The 1938 Gothic novel was written by Daphne de Maurier, and since its first publication, Rebecca has never gone out of publication.
The only thing I knew about Rebecca prior to reading it was that Rebecca is the deceased wife and the narrator is the new wife. I also knew it was set in England, but beyond that, it was a classic mystery I knew little about.
To my utter delight, the opening scenes occur in Monte Carlo, Monaco, and I had no problem visualizing it. The unnamed narrator is a lady's helper on vacation when she meets Maxim de Winter, a recent rich widower. After only two weeks of courtship, Maxim asks the young woman to marry him, and she agrees. Readers quickly jump from the Mediterranean to Cornwall – specifically, Manderley, de Winter's magnificent estate.
Our young bride struggles to settle into her new life as Lady of the House. She's intimidated by Ms. Danvers, the sharp, cross housekeeper, and she's reminded almost constantly of her husband's previous wife, Rebecca. Her presence is still felt in the house, despite the fact that she's been dead nearly a year. Details of Rebecca's death are scarcely discussed.
The new Mrs. de Winter tries to make her husband happy, but after a massive failure on her part to surprise him (and guests) with her costume for a "Fancy Dress Ball" at Manderley, secrets quickly unravel and the young bride realizes that she knows very little about Maxim, and even much less about Rebecca.
When a sunken boat is discovered in the bay and subsequently raised, the new Mrs. de Winter must decide what to do about all the other surprises that come up with the boat – including a body.
I absolutely adored this novel, though I fully recognize that its magic is not just in the plot. The narrative is dreamy and romantic, utterly fluid and delightful. Manderley is its own magical character, as Daphne de Maurier draws the reader to the magnificent property and inside the looming house. (A quick Google search revealed it was based on a real estate – Menabilly.) I was tempted to not like the narrator because there were so many red flags to not marry this man, but considering the time and women's roles in the 1930s and 40s, perhaps you can't blame her.
The end of the book brings the story full-circle, a feature I love in a novel because it shows the writer had a plan, a clear direction. When it begins, "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again," you can't possibly know how the story will end.
And then when it ends, you can't help but smile as all the pieces fall into place.
Book Review: The Lying Game
Already on a Ruth Ware roll, I decided to finish all five of her books and read The Lying Game. Without a doubt, this one was my favorite.
Isa is on maternity leave with her new daughter, Freya, when she receives an urgent text from one of her best friends from high school: "I need you."
It's from Kate, and the other two friends, Fatima and Thea, received the same text. The four were at boarding school together, and their friendship sealed a bond that no one could break. If any of them needed anything, at any time, all she needed to do was say the word. They all replied to Kate's text with the same: "I'm coming."
The three women, along with baby Freya, take the train to Salten, the coastal town on the English Channel where they met 15 years prior as schoolgirls. They aren't sure what Kate needs, but they know fairly well what it may pertain to. The four women share many secrets between them, including one big frightening lie that must be kept hidden at all costs.
The Lying Game is pitch-perfect with its pacing, a steady current of unraveling details that lead to more nail-biting questions. I was utterly captivated by every word, and I even thought I had the mystery worked out a couple of times (but I was wrong on both accounts).
Isa is a delightful narrator, one whose voice is familiar to me as a mother and a deeply loyal friend. To what lengths would I go to help my best girlfriends? How far would I go?
Pretty far.
On top of the characters and plot, the setting is a scene-stealer. Having been to the English coast, I can clearly picture this sleepy, seaside down with its menacing tide and salty air. I have always loved mysteries that unfold by the water. The ocean is a mystery all its own.
The Lying Game tops my list of Ware's books, followed by The Turn of the Key. Midway through I considered that this book would make an outstanding film. I still believe that. Hurry – someone buy the rights and make it!
Book Review: Three novels by Ruth Ware
I didn't immediately jump on the Ruth Ware bandwagon after reading In a Dark, Dark Wood back in 2016. I liked the book just fine, but I wasn't feeling the immediate pull to read everything from the author.
Three years later, I decided to give it all a go, starting with Ware's fifth novel, The Turn of the Key, which was published this summer. This one does a stellar job of using setting as a character since the story takes place in an old Victorian home that's been internally updated to be a smart house. You get old haunting vibes with the knowledge that anyone could be watching you via cameras.
Rowan Caine answers an ad for a nanny at Heatherbrae House in the Scottish Highlands, but what she doesn't realize is that she's walking straight into a nightmare. A child is going to die (not a spoiler) and she's going to prison for murder (also not a spoiler).
The story is told in epistolary form (via letters from Rowan to her lawyer), which can get tedious at times, but it's still a clever way to tell a story when it's almost entirely in flashbacks. The narrative is highly suspenseful throughout and even creepy at times. It's definitely my favorite of Ruth Ware's books.
I was so pleased with The Turn of the Key that I immediately went on to The Death of Mrs. Westaway, Ware's fourth novel.
Harriet Westaway, "Hal", lives modestly in Brighton as a tarot reader on a pier. One day she receives a letter informing her that she is the chosen recipient of a substantial inheritance by her grandmother in Cornwall. That would be great news if Hal's grandparents hadn't already died years ago.
However, since she's desperate for money (to pay off loan sharks) and tired of living pound to pound, she decides to attend the funeral to see if she can get away with accepting the inheritance without anyone being wise to her scheme. Of course, it's not going to be easy.
The Death of Mrs. Westaway is less suspenseful than The Turn of the Key, but it still kept my interest because I wanted to untangle the knot. Each member of the Westaway family had a secret to keep, and it was a fun ride with Hal to see where each puzzle piece fit.
This book was advertised as an "unputdownable thriller," but I challenge the "thriller" part. I did get through it quickly because I wanted to know how Hal was related to everyone – or if she even was related to them at all.
Since I was on a roll with Ruth Ware books, I finally picked up her second one, The Woman in Cabin 10, which was published in 2016.
The story begins with a burglary. Lo Blacklock is a travel journalist (dream job!) and had the unfortunate experience of a traumatic break-in. To escape the fear she feels at home, Lo leaps at the chance to take part in a luxury press tour on a Scandanavian cruise. One night on the water, she sees what she believes is a woman being tossed overboard to her death. Lo cannot let this go, despite a full search aboard the ship and everyone reassuring her that she didn't see anything.
A few things: The initial burglary put Lo in a state of constant anxiety, so her narration was irritating to the point that I didn't want to hear any more in her voice by the middle of the book.
Secondly, the pacing seemed to drag. I understand the need to create claustrophobia on a small cruise liner, to agitate the reader so he/she *feels* the tension, but I became too frustrated with the slow pacing (combined with the tight living quarters and Lo's anxiety) that I could not finish the book.
That's right. I didn't finish it.
Of course, I wanted to know how it ended, so I read a summary online and immediately felt relieved that I didn't suffer the rest of the book for that storyline. The Woman in Cabin 10 has been my least favorite Ruth Ware book thus far. I don't recommend it.
I'll give The Lying Game a go soon. Then, I'll be up to speed.
Book review: Behind Her Eyes
I love a story with a good twist. Better yet, I love a story with several good twists. I enjoy the shock and surprise of learning I was completely wrong.
Behind Her Eyes presents two narrators – Adele, the pretty yet fragile wife of a local psychiatrist, and Louise, a single mom and the psychiatrist's secretary. David, the psychiatrist, is the third person in the triad, but we don't have a POV from him.
Here's the catch – the Louise and David had a clumsy kiss in a bar prior to her starting the job, before they knew they'd be working together. So, when Louise and Adele meet and strike up a friendship, there's already a secret in play. It's a big mess, but that isn't the point. There is something else going on in the story that looms larger than their little white lies.
The quick pacing kept me enthralled, particularly because more lies lead to more secrets and you know it's all going to come to light eventually. The question is WHEN and HOW, so I kept going.
Then there's this other plot point that starts to creep in, one that involves lucid dreaming, and I started to feel like I was reading The Anatomy of Stars, which I didn't enjoy. Finally, in the last couple of chapters, the purpose of the lucid dreaming is revealed.
To be honest, I enjoyed this book tremendously – until its finale. I don't want to spoil it, but the ending seemed directly lifted from a 2005 film. (Click here if you want to know what movie I'm referring to, and if you've seen it, you'll be spoiled.) In fact, my brain went right there: Oh, this is exactly like that movie... So, that left me unimpressed. (Granted, if you haven't seen the movie, it won't matter and you'll probably get a good kick out of the end. 🙂 )
Book review: We Need to Talk About Kevin
I've had this book on my shelf for a while, and when a BookTuber I follow selected it as the January pick for her online book club, I thought I'd read along.
Full disclosure – We Need to Talk About Kevin is disturbing, and it will not leave you with warm fuzzies of any kind.
The novel unfolds through letters from Eva to her husband, Franklin, so we approach the story entirely from her point of view. Right away I wasn't a fan of the epistolary format, and the first 50 pages were slower than I'd prefer.
However, there is a threshold somewhere around the 50-page mark that shifts the pacing dramatically. It took me weeks to crawl there, but once I crossed over, I couldn't put down the book and ended up finishing it in a weekend.
It isn't a spoiler to tell you about Kevin. From the start, he is a different sort of child. He's curt and ominous as if there was a dark streak in him from birth. That's why, when, at 15 years old, Kevin murdered a handful of classmates, a cafeteria worker, and a teacher, and subsequently lands in jail, you aren't surprised. You knew it was coming, and it was only a matter of knowing how you wound up there.
The letters from Eva to Franklin are heart-wrenching, particularly because Eva knew there was something off in her son. Franklin, less so. As their disenchanted lives unfold in the suburbs, Eva becomes increasingly worried about Kevin, and he is well aware of her concerns. Kevin enjoys and exploits them.
We Need to Talk About Kevin is… unnerving. It is not a beach read or a cozy mystery. It is troubling and shocking and terrifically sad. And yet, it is so well done that Lionel Shriver must have dug deep into the dark minds of young murderers in order to write one so perfectly. Winner of the Orange Prize and numerous other accolades, Shriver is an impeccable writer and storyteller.
That being said, don't expect a happy ending.
Book review: I Found You
I'm not sure if double or triple timelines is a trend that authors are choosing independently or if literary agents and editors are pushing for it. Either way, I keep choosing these books. I don't mind necessarily, but it's a format that I'll soon need a break from.
I Found You takes place primarily in a seaside town in England called Ridinghouse Bay. Cynical single mom Alice wakes up one morning to find a man sitting on the beach outside her house. She approaches him only to find out he has no idea who he is or what he's doing on the beach. Instead of leaving him there, she welcomes him back to her house for a shower, a hot meal, and eventually, a short-term place to stay until his memory returns.
A second part of the book takes place in London and focuses on Lily, a newlywed whose husband would normally go to work and come home like clockwork. When he doesn't come home one day and cannot be reached on his cell phone, Lily calls the police and thus begins a missing person search. Matters aren't helped when Lily realizes she knows little to nothing about the man she met and married in a whirlwind romance.
A third narrative takes place as well, but this time it's in the past (1993) and follows Gray and Kirsty Ross, a brother and sister on summer vacation with their parents in Ridinghouse Bay. All was well and good until a charming young man, Mark, starts paying too much attention to Kirsty, and Gray doesn't trust a single thing the local boy says.
I Found You is a true mystery in that the first overarching question readers have is if the man on the beach is Lily's missing husband. The second question is how Gray and Mark from 1993 fit into the future narrative. The answers come at the beginning of the third act (last third of the book), and then the question becomes, "How will this all turn out?"
I wasn't blown away by I Found You in the way I was with Sometimes I Lie, which remains one of my favorites, but it was still a good read and one that kept my interest until the end. It reminded me of a Liane Moriarity book, so if that's your type of fiction, give it a go.
Favorite books I read in 2018
In 2017, I settled into a genre that doesn't seem to be waning. I've always enjoyed a good whodunit, but that's morphed into thrillers and mysteries that do a good job of hijacking my brain. The best books are the ones with top-notch character development, a plot you can't dissect, and pacing so swift that you can't look away for a moment without wondering what might happen next.
Not all of my favorites from 2018 are thrillers, but most of them are. (Keep in mind these aren't necessarily books that debuted in 2018.)
The Secrets She Keeps follows two storylines – Agatha is a pregnant thirty-something who works at a dreadful grocery store. She longs to have her ex-boyfriend back in the fold of their impending family. Life is pretty miserable. Meg, on the other hand, is a pregnant mommy blogger who enjoys a happy, public life married to a handsome sportscaster. Agatha's life is notably less desirable than Meg's, and after watching the pregnant blogger shop in the store where she works, a plan starts to form. Obviously, Agatha is jealous of Meg, and it's this emotional drug that keeps her watching and waiting. When their stories finally align, the pacing and tension is everything you need it to be.
As soon as I finished Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, I knew it was going to be a 2018 favorite. Additionally, I recommend you listen to this book instead of read it because the narration by Cathleen McCarron is an absolute delight.
Eleanor Oliphant is a special lady. Thirty years old and full of quirks, she is likely somewhere on the autism spectrum, though fully capable of living an independent life. Her mother is a constant nag, and her co-worker Raymond provides a lovely contrast to Eleanor's cut-and-dry lifestyle. Unfortunately, something bad exists in Eleanor's history, an event we don't yet understand. However, as memories unfold, the tragedy comes to light, and Eleanor's life will never be the same.
The book is a perfect mixture of serious and funny. There are laugh-out-loud moments followed by pure heartache. Gail Honeyman deserves all the applause.
If you've asked me for a book recommendation in 2018, it's likely I told you to read Sometimes I Lie. Hoo-boy, it was good.
Told through three timelines – Now, Before, and Then – we learn about Amber Reynolds' life. During Now, she's in a coma. Before puts the pieces together of how she wound up in that coma. Then includes passages from a diary written by a young girl in 1991 and 1992.
Lest you think three timelines is hard to keep track of, no worries. The story is impeccably written, an admirable feat for Alice Feeney, as Sometimes I Lie is her debut novel. If you love fiction at all, read this one.
If you asked me for a book recommendation in 2018, it's also likely that I told you to read Homegoing, which is not a thriller. It begins in 18th Century Ghana, where two half sisters, Effia and Esi, don't know the other exists. Effia is married off to a wealthy and influential Englishman who oversees the British slave trade headquartered on the Gold Coast. Esi, the daughter of a tribal warrior, is sold into slavery and is kept in the dungeon of the same castle where her half-sister lives. She eventually passes through the Door of No Return to board a boat headed for America.
Thus begins a 300-year journey that follows the descendants of Effia (in Africa) and Esi (in America). It is exhaustive, emotional, and absolutely necessary to read if you have any interest in trying to understand the African American story. I was shocked to learn that Yaa Gyasi did not win the Pulitzer for Homegoing, but I was pleased to know she was at least in the running. Before my boys graduate high school, they will read this book.
My final favorite book I read in 2018 is The Word is Murder, which I love even more whenever I think of it. Anthony Horowitz was given the go-ahead by the Conan Doyle Estate to write two Sherlock Holmes novels, so he was well-equipped to craft The Word is Murder.
To explain this book well takes more than a paragraph, so I encourage you to click on the link above or do your own research if you want to know more. Essentially, Horowitz writes himself into the book as the narrator and main character. He's an established novelist, doing just fine, when ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne (the obsessive, sharp Sherlock character) asks for his help to document a murder investigation. After some hesitation, Horowitz morphs into the Watson role, and the pair investigate the murder of Diana Cowper, a woman who walks into a funeral parlor one afternoon to prepay for her future services and is found murdered in her apartment later the same day.
If you have any interest in Sherlock Holmes at all – the TV series or the original works – The Word is Murder is a must-read.
And since I also appreciate knowing what books people DON'T recommend, I suggest you pass on The Last Mrs. Parrish, The Anatomy of Dreams, There Will Be Stars, and possibly Witch Elm, which currently remains unfinished because it is dreadfully slow.
Book review: The Last Mrs. Parrish
The quickest way to describe this book to you is to reference "Single White Female" and point to that level of crazy jealousy. That is Amber. She wants Daphne Parrish's socialite, wealthy life so badly that she'll go to any length necessary to have it. She'll wiggle her way into Daphne's good graces, charm her children, and keep her distance – albeit publicly – from her husband, Jackson. This is all part of the plan, after all. Get in, settle down, and eventually replace Daphne altogether.
That is, if everything goes according to plan. (Spoiler: Things don't always go according to plan.)
I'll admit that I almost didn't read this one on account of being on Reese's Book Club list. I'm not sure why that was a near-deterrent, but it was. Now that I've read it, I could've skipped it. Amber is a whiny character who needed a good slap every day. I cringed at every scene with her because she was that obnoxious. Even with a good twist at the end, I didn't fully connect with the characters and felt like they could've been named anything and lived out their lives anywhere. So, perhaps it's a pass for you.
Book review: The Ruin
Twenty years ago the body of Hilaria Blake was found in her home. An apparent overdose left her two children – Jack and Maude – orphaned. It was the sort of case that didn't feel quite right, but when the most obvious conclusion is all you have, that's what you go with. At least, that's what Detective Cormac Reilly believed at the time.
Fast forward 20 years and Jack Blake's body has been found in the river Corrib in Ireland. The police are quick to rule it a suicide, a truth girlfriend Aisling Conroy cannot seem to grasp. When sister Maude shows up to investigate her brother's death on her own, the heat turns up in Galway.
Recently transferred from Dublin to Galway, Detective Reilly finds himself unearthing Hilaria Blake's overdose case while grappling with her son's supposed suicide. Things don't align. Something doesn't sit well. There is another link to the story which he resolves to uncover.
The Ruin moves at a swift pace, which I always appreciate. Sometimes I like to dwell in details, but when it comes to thrillers I want to run to the end. I want to untangle the knot as quickly as possible, as long as the author gets her words in. The Ruin impressed me because this is a debut novel. McTiernan was a lawyer in her former life and only jumped into fiction because she loved crime thrillers so much. So yeah, I enjoyed this mystery a great deal, and it was recommended to me since I'm a fan of Tana French, another Irish author.
However, I will tell you that The Ruin is a quicker and more interesting read than Witch Elm, French's latest, which is currently sitting aside unfinished because the pacing is so darn slow.
Book review: I'll Be Gone in the Dark
I'm late on this review, but it is not a reflection on its quality. I listened to it on audiobook this summer while training for a race, so I had plenty of time to dive into the details of the Golden State Killer, also known at the EAR (East Area Rapist).
If this title and author is unfamiliar to you, it's important to know right off that Michelle McNamara passed away before she could see her book in print. She'd been following the case, and subsequently writing about it with the intention of getting her work published, when she reached an untimely death in April 2016 at age 46. It was her husband, Patton Oswalt, who worked with his wife's research partner to see this book finished.
I'll Be Gone in the Dark chases down every lead suspected to be connected to a violent predator who committed upwards of 50 sexual assaults and at least ten murders. For a decade this person eluded detectives in Northern California, and eventually the case ran dry. The Golden State Killer has been the focus of myriad stories and articles, but no one could every piece it all together in a way that fleshed out a real person.
McNamara was hyper-focused on the case. It kept her up at night and occupied her mind at the most inopportune times, such as when she was walking the red carpet with her Hollywood husband. Essentially, she was obsessed with it, but perhaps that worked to her credit. After all, she honed in on a few details that eventually led to the arrest of a suspect.
It would be irritating to read this book without the events that unfolded in the spring of 2018. A man was arrested. More information came to light. It's just a shame McNamara wasn't alive to see it for herself.
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It's that time again: a week has passed since a major convention so the usual leakers on Weibo are back on the job. Today we have a look at the combining diagram forPower of the Primes combiner Abominus which will presumably appear in every Terrorcon's instructions, and pegs the last three members of the team as "coming Late 2018." We also have slices of the package art for Voyagers Hun-Gurrr, Elita-1, and Inferno that show off their respective combined forms, Abominus, ????, and ????. Keep reading to see!
Elita-1 was identified as part of the major Hasbro leaks as a remold of Power of the Primes Voyager Starscream, and Inferno was pretty obviously a recolor of Combiner Wars Hot Spot. Which is pretty neatly confirmed by his torso mode being a recolor of Defensor here!
Unless more leaks are forth coming, we will probably not know the names of their combined forms until at least Toy Fair 2018.


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Surviving Hiroshima
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Douglas Wellman
Douglas Wellman was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and raised in the suburb of Brooklyn Center. After studying Broadcast Speech at the University of Minnesota, he worked as a director at television stations KSTP-TV and KTCA-TV in the Twin Cities before moving to Los Angeles. There he became the production manager of the sitcoms "The Facts of Life," "Gimme a Break," "Diff'rent Strokes" and several pilots. Over the next thirty years he produced and directed numerous television specials and series including the "Fox Network Launch" the Emmy Awards red carpet show, also for Fox, and over 900 episodes of standup comedy shows including, "Comic Strip Live," "An Evening at the Improv," "Comedy on the Road," "Girls' Night Out," and several Showtime specials.
In 1997, while continuing to produce comedy specials, he joined the staff of the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts to help create Trojan Vision, a student television station. He was soon asked to teach situation comedy production, and in a few years became the Assistant Dean of the school. He remained at USC for sixteen years.
While working at USC, Wellman earned a degree in theology and worked with homeless people on skid row as well is in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles. After retiring from USC, he moved to Southern Utah with his wife, Deborah, participated in a volunteer ministry to prison inmates, and taught The Business of Film, a motion picture production class at Dixie State University. He is currently a chaplain at Dixie Regional Medical Center.
Wellman is the author of two editions of "Boxes: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes," with Mark Musick, "Five Minutes, Mr. Byner!" with John Byner, and "Surviving Hiroshima: A Young Woman's Story" with Anthony Drago.
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Trump pushed Pence to reject key votes
A demonstrator holds a mannequin wearing a noose with "Traitor" written on it during a protest at the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021.
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The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot on Thursday put the spotlight on former Vice President Mike Pence's refusal to aid then-President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
The committee's third public hearing examined the intense pressure Trump and his allies heaped on Pence to reject key electoral votes when he presided over a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, to confirm President Joe Biden's victory. The hearing also focused heavily on John Eastman, a lawyer advising Trump who pushed the dubious legal theory that Pence held virtually unilateral power to overturn the election.
Here are the main takeaways from the hearing:
Pence's life was in danger
Pence came within about 40 feet of some of the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol building, said Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., who led much of Thursday's hearing.
"Make no mistake about the fact that the vice president's life was in danger," Aguilar said.
He noted that a confidential informant from the Proud Boys told the FBI that members of the far-right group "would have killed Mike Pence if given a chance," according to a recent court filing by the Department of Justice.
Pence did not leave the Capitol on Jan. 6, but was transferred to a secure location during the riot.
Pence showed "courage" on that day by defying Trump, committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said at the start of the hearing.
But that resolve put the vice president in "tremendous danger" when Trump "turned the mob on him," Thompson said.
Trump, Eastman were told Pence couldn't overturn the election
Witnesses, both in person and in taped depositions, testified that numerous officials told Trump and Eastman that Pence could not carry out the legal scheme to overturn the 2020 contest. But Trump and Eastman nevertheless continued to pressure Pence and his team.
Pence's former chief of staff, Marc Short, said in a taped interview with the committee that the vice president himself told Trump "many times" before Jan. 6 that he did not have the legal authority to block the certification of the election.
Former Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller said he had heard that former White House counsel Pat Cipollone "thought the idea was nutty and had at one point confronted Eastman with the same sentiment."
Other officials also thought Eastman's theory "was crazy" and would tell "anyone who would listen," Miller said.
What's more, former Pence counsel Greg Jacob told the panel that Eastman admitted one day before the Capitol riot that his legal theory would be rejected 9-0 if it went before the Supreme Court.
On the morning of Jan. 6, Trump raged at Pence in a tense phone call. He said the vice president was weak and a "wimp," witnesses told the committee. Ivanka Trump's former chief of staff, Julia Radford, said that Trump's daughter told her after the call that the president had called Pence "the P word."
In a rally outside the White House that began shortly before the mob breached the Capitol, Trump again heaped pressure on Pence to reject the election results: "All Vice President Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify, and we become president."
Eastman sought a presidential pardon after the riot
Eastman told former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani that he wanted to be added to the list of presidential pardon recipients, the committee revealed.
"I've decided that I should be on the pardon list, if that is still in the works," Eastman wrote, according to a screenshot of an email displayed during the panel's third hearing.
That email was sent days after the Capitol riot, Aguilar said. It also came after a Jan. 7 conversation with White House lawyer Eric Herschmann, who said he told Eastman, "I'm going to give you the best free legal advice you're ever getting in your life: get a great effing criminal defense lawyer, you're going to need it."
Trump did not pardon Eastman. Under questioning by the Capitol riot investigators, Eastman pleaded the Fifth 100 times, Aguilar said.
Trump pardoned numerous allies during his final days in office.
The investigation, and the threat to democracy posed by the riot, are ongoing
The select committee is slated to hold four more public hearings in June. During each, lawmakers intend to lay out a different element of a coordinated conspiracy to subvert the 2020 election.
The panel has teased its plans to show in future hearings how Trump tried to get the Justice Department to challenge the election results, how he pushed officials in key states to undo Biden's victories, and how he led a violent mob to march on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Committee aides have stressed that the hearings represent only the initial findings from the nearly year-long probe, and that the investigation is ongoing.
That was made especially clear on Thursday, as committee leaders Thompson and Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., confirmed that they want to speak with Ginni Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Ginni Thomas has come under intense scrutiny in recent months following reporting on her efforts to challenge the 2020 election results.
Retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig, meanwhile, warned in Thursday's hearing that Trump remains a "clear and present danger" to American democracy, which was gravely threatened on Jan. 6 and is now "on a knife's edge."
The next hearing is set or Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET.
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Clare and Geoff's wedding day can be described as nothing less than stunning. With everything from the florals to the venue looking impeccable, the true beauty of the day emanated from the joy that both the couple and their families had throughout the entire event. The Kyle Michelle weddings team is so glad to have been able to be involved in Clare and Geoff's special day, it truly was a wedding to remember!
As Clare and her father waited to walk down the aisle of St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church, Geoff couldn't suppress a beaming smile from his face. The guests loved watching the flower girl and ring bearer being pulled in a small wagon, but they quickly fell silent when Clare appeared at the end of the aisle. The ceremony ended in applause, which didn't stop throughout the rest of the night. At every event including the couple's introduction, the first dance, and Clare's father's speech the guests applauded and cheered! We enjoyed every second of this wedding purely because of the true joy that radiated from the newlyweds and guests alike.
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The day began early at the Society Hill Sheraton Hotel in Philadelphia. When the Kyle Michelle team arrived on the scene, the bride was busy getting ready and the groom was kickin' it back with his closest men (and little men!). We ventured over to Amanda's room first to check on things!
After checking on the bride, we moved on to see Chris and make sure the boys weren't getting into too much trouble! After pinning the boutonnieres on the men, we left the room so that Chris could read Amanda's love letter and open her wedding gift to him - a beautiful watch.
With both wedding parties ready to go, we took the trolleys down the street for the first look before the ceremony. Once Chris saw his beautiful bride and a few kisses were exchanged, the bridesmaids and groomsmen joined their photoshoot. While the girls were busy posing for the camera, Chris surprised his groomsmen with a special present - personalized flasks!
Here comes the bride! In the early afternoon, everyone began heading over to Old St. Mary's Church for the ceremony. It was a truly beautiful Catholic service that ended with a parade of bubbles outside the church doors! Don't believe us? Take a look!
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And the party begins! This crazy bunch of people didn't stop once the music started - we even joined in and danced with them a bit! From the first dance, to dances with the parents, and finally to the cake cutting, we loved each and every moment of this wedding. Congratulations Amanda and Chris, we hope you two had an amazing wedding day and that you enjoy an even more incredible life together!


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Icon Ventures is a venture capital that is focused on leading Series B and C financing opportunities. The firm was founded in 2003, in Palo Alto, California, United States, and is also known as Jafco Ventures.
The firm is interested in companies that develop respiratory technologies, social media and review-based technologies, healthcare jobs, privacy solutions, and mobile commerce platforms. The firm looks to make investments that are in similar industries and sectors as companies like Aster Data, FireEye, 41st Parameter, Infinera, MoPub, Palo Alto Networks, and Proofpoint.
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exabeam.com
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Benjamin Block or Blok (1631–1690) was a seventeenth-century German-Hungarian Baroque painter who married the flower painter Anna Katharina Block. He is known for his portrait paintings.

Biography

Block was born into an artistic family in Lübeck; his father Daniel Blok and brothers Emanuel and Adolf were painters. In 1653 he was registered in Halle, Belgium, probably en route to Italy, and in 1655, through one of his brothers, who was a canon in Vienna at the time, he met Ferenc Nádasdy III who invited him to produce art in Hungary. He is registered in Hungary from 1656 to 1659.

After working as a portrait painter in Siena, Florence and Venice, in 1664 Block crossed the alps back to his native Germany, and settled in Nuremberg, where he married the daughter of the flower painter Johann Thomas Fischer (1603–1685), the flower painter Anna Catharina Fischer. There he made portraits for the margraves of Ansbach and the Vienna court until 1670. He was knighted by Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor in 1684.

His wife remained a painter after her marriage, and along with their parents, this duo is mentioned in the artist biographies of Joachim von Sandrart and Arnold Houbraken. He died in Regensburg in 1690.

References

External links and sources
Fine Arts in Hungary

Hungarian painters
1631 births
1690 deaths
Artists from Lübeck
German Baroque painters
17th-century German painters

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DS/DCM Orientation Cultivating Vital Ministries
Chris Holmes of Holmes Coaching Group, one of the five coaches who led sharing groups during this week of orientation. Photo by Michael Rich.
"This training is like receiving a large suit of clothes that I haven't grown into yet," that's according to an insight that Myron Wingfield, coordinator of the event, discovered from a 2013 participant.
District Superintendents and Conference Directors of Connectional Ministries from across the connection gathered from August 24-28, 2014 at Lake Junaluska Retreat and Conference Center in North Carolina.
Attending this year were 75 new district superintendents, 8 new directors of connectional ministries, and over 30 spouses. A total of 41 conferences/episcopal areas were represented between participants, faculty and staff.
The annual training is sponsored by the Council of Bishops, the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry and the General Board of Discipleship.
This year's program brought together some of the top leaders in the denomination for four days of intensive training on the roles of the district superintendent and director of connectional ministries.
Bishop Sandra Steiner Ball of the West Virginia Conference. Photo by Michael Rich.
The event included daily worship and centering time, three plenary sessions, three sessions focused on technical leadership best practices, and four small group sharing sessions led by a coach who will continue coaching via conference calls through the end of the year.
The first two plenaries focused on the general theme of the event as outlined by Myron Wingfield: "We focus on the DS as the 'chief missional strategist of the district' and the DCM as the 'steward of the vision' for the conference, shifting the emphasis from institutional management to strategic, innovative, missional leadership. Working together, these roles can be leading change agents for the missional renewal of the denomination."
Bishop Grant Hagiya led part one, entitled "Chief Missional Strategist & Steward of the Vision: Your Unique Role in Cultivating Vital Ministries." Joe Daniels and Tom Hazelwood led part two. The final plenary was led by Myron Wingfield and Ken Sloane, with closing worship and communion led by Bishops Eduard Khegay, Sandra Steiner-Ball and Jonathan Keaton.
The best practices sessions were designed so that the superintendents would receive training in supervision, legal issues, conflict resolution and cultural competence.
The Rev. Myron Wingfield, interim associate general secretary, Division of Ordained Ministry, GBHEM. Photo by Michael Rich.
Myron Wingfield and Bishop Steiner-Ball led the Supervision section. They focused their teaching on the concept that leadership in a district requires intense self-awareness, belief and value awareness and time awareness. "You can effectively lead only when you are leading from your authentic self," according to Steiner-Ball, who served six years as a district superintendent before being elected to the episcopacy.
Dr. Jeff Patterson, superintendent of the Yadkin Valley District in the Western North Carolina Conference, shared the importance of this training. "In the Personnel session, I discovered that even after ten years working with the Board of Ordained Ministry, that there is terminology and specifics in the 2012 Discipline that I needed to learn." Reflecting on his new role as a superintendent, "This training will help me prioritize my ministry after going from one church in one community to serving the diverse needs of 166 churches in numerous communities."
Chris Moore, a clergy from the Baltimore-Washington Conference, is heading up the coaching experience for participants. "We believe that this experience will not end on Thursday," he said. There are 8-9 DS/DCM's in each of the 10 groups, and beyond the four meetings of the week, they will meet by conference calls four more times until December. Moore described the coaching component as "integration and processing of the huge volume of information shared in the orientation." According to previous evaluations, it is always one of the most helpful components of the training.
Dr. Chris Eckert, the new superintendent of the Demopolis District in the Alabama-West Florida Conference reflected on his experience of the orientation: "I have realized that that I am not in this boat by myself. In just the first couple of days, I have met folks from across the connection and learned that we are all learning how to do this together. This has broadened my horizons of what it means to be a part of our rich Wesleyan heritage."
Rich is web and communications manager, Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church.


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Cybercriminals launched four new Locky ransomware attacks in a single month. In one of them, more than 23 million phishing emails were sent in just 24 hours. Learn about these attacks and how to protect your business from them.
After taking a brief hiatus, cybercriminals launched four new Locky ransomware attacks in August 2017. The biggest one occurred on August 28. In a span of just 24 hours, hackers sent out more than 23 million malicious emails, making it one of the largest malware campaigns in the latter half of 2017, according to AppRiver security researchers.
An attached Microsoft Word document containing a malicious macro. Macros are small scripts that Word users can create to perform repetitive tasks, such as entering a return address in correspondence. As such, they are useful tools. However, cybercriminals often use macros to initiate cyberattacks.
A compressed archive file (e.g., a ZIP, RAR, or 7ZIP file) containing a malicious VBScript (VBS) file. In the past, administrators often used VBS scripts to automate routine IT tasks, such as deleting old files. Although most administrators now use a different type of script for that purpose, VBS scripts are still a popular tool of destruction among hackers.
Although different types of scripts were used, they all led to the same outcome if recipients inadvertently launched them. The scripts initiated a process that loaded the Locky ransomware onto their computers. A message was then displayed on the victims' computers. It stated that their files were encrypted and referred them to a site where they could get further instructions on how to get the key needed to decrypt their files.
The cybercriminals behind the August Locky attacks relied on email attachments to deliver the ransomware. Therein lies an important way you can help prevent a Locky ransomware attack. You should let employees know how dangerous it is to open an attachment, even if an email appears to be from someone they know or an organization with which they do business. The email might have been sent by a hacker masquerading as a colleague or business representative. Plus, you should warn employees about the dangers of opening a password-protected file (especially if it is a compressed archive file) sent via email if that email includes the password needed to unlock the file. When this occurs, there is a good chance that the file contains malicious code. Finally, it is helpful to train employees on how to spot phishing emails by looking for elements commonly found in them (e.g., generic greetings, suspicious email addresses, grammatical errors).
You also need to take other measures to protect your business from Locky. Since macros were used in some of the attacks, it is a good idea to lock them down. Macros are disabled by default in Word. However, if a macro is present in a file, employees will get a prompt asking them if they want to enable it. You can remove this prompt by changing the macro setting from "Disable all macros with notification" (the default) to "Disable all macros without notification". That way, you eliminate the possibility of employees inadvertently enabling macros. Cybercriminals have also used macros in Microsoft Excel files to deliver ransomware, so you might want to change the macro setting both Word and Excel.
Despite your best efforts to prevent an infection, Locky might get installed on one of your computers and hold its files for ransom. Thus, you need to regularly back up your business's files and make sure they can be successfully restored. If you have good backup and restore processes, you won't have to pay the ransom to get your files back.
Locky continues to be a dangerous threat that your business needs to be prepared for. We can help you develop and implement a comprehensive security strategy that will help protect your business against it and other types of ransomware attacks.


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Deal with Terminal Reality to see game engine offered to co-production partners
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Terminal Reality and Streamline Studios have entered into a partnership, whereby the developer will have access to the Infernal Engine in exchange for promoting it with its co-production partners.
Streamline will now use the engine on its internal projects and make the tool available to all production partners. Under the terms of the deal, Terminal Reality will share the marketing and promotion of titles developed on the Infernal Engine.
"Streamline Studios is widely known as the premier content creation and production house in the games industry. The Infernal Engine is the most cross platform, highly featured game engine available, and we feel that our advanced asset pipeline will allow their artists to shine," said Joe Kreiner, VP sales and marketing at Terminal Reality.
"As Streamline Studios moves into more co-productions, the Infernal Engine platform flexibility will give them a upper hand in development options, as well as reduce costs."
Alexander Fernandez, president and CEO of Streamline Studios, added: "Our partnership with Terminal Reality will give us the ability to support one of the fastest growing engines on the market today and further expand our capabilities in deploying the highest quality external content creation services to the market."
"Our studio has a reputation for delivering AAA content for some of the biggest blockbusters in the industry and we only work with the best partners. Terminal Reality has impressed us and we're confident that we'll all benefit exponentially from our combined efforts."
The two companies are planning a joint promotion of the Infernal Engine as a teaching tool, potentially setting up programs in which promising teams gain access to the engine as well as Streamline Studio's support.
The Infernal Engine is currently being used to develop the Ghostbusters videogame, and has been licensed by Threewave, Red Fly Studios and Spider Monk Entertainment, among others.
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Overcoming state suppression, Prof Agarwal continues Save-Ganga fast in Delhi
Retired IIT Kanpur Professor (retired) Dr GD Agarwal, 76 years, is sitting on a fast-unto-death since 13 June 2008 to save the Ganga from the aggressive onslaught of strings of dams and hydel projects in Uttarakhand. On 21 June 2008, the Uttarakhand government had to forcibly disrupt the peaceful and non-violent agitation of Prof Agarwal, forcing the unflinching crusader to move to the nation's capital to continue his agitation.
The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, BC Khanduri, had said on 17 June 2008, that he was ready to stop the construction of hydel projects on the Bhagirathi river if the power needs of the state were fulfilled by the Centre. Possibly it was this assurance of Chief Minister Khanduri that had instigated those with vested interest in hydel projects to lobby against the growing influence of Prof Agarwal's non-violent protest.
The Uttarakhand state government had earlier planned a series of hydel projects between Uttar kashi and Gangotri. Khanduri, however, made it clear that the decision on stopping the construction of the 600-MW Lohari Nagpala project would be taken by the Centre since it was being constructed by National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), a central government undertaking and India's largest power generation company. Other major dams being built on the river include Pala Maneri (480 MW), Bhairon Ghati (381 MW) and Jad Ganga (200 MW).
"The contentious issue is 600 MW (4X150) Loharinag - Pala dam being built by National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), a central government undertaking, the country's largest power generation company. Ganga will be put into 26 and 17 km long tunnels leading to its disappearance from its natural course through the stretch. The construction is going on in full steam. The resultant destruction of the fragile and unique ecosystem will have far reaching consequences. Not only this, all this is done in earthquake zone 5 and terrain full of sedimentary rocks. No imagination is required to realize what one earthquake would to the entire region. Siltation is another problem. Ganga and all other Himalayan rivers carry lots of silt along which will now settle in the reservoirs created by the dams reducing the electricity generation capacity. Repeated closing of Nathpa-Jhakri Dam on Satluj in Himachal Pradesh 4 years after its commission is a fine example" explained Environmental scientist Neeraj Doshi, who has moved back from USA recently to strengthen people's movements.
"In the name of 'development' and 'economic growth' in India, rural and urban poor have been the worst hit, facing displacement and dispossession at an unprecedented scale" said Dr Sandeep Pandey, Ramon Magsaysay Awardee (2002) and convener of National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM). "Not only the state has overlooked the environmental cost of such hydel projects, but also the issues of livelihood and quality of life of those living in areas adjoining the Ganga and those who will be displaced by these projects has been appallingly ignored by the state" added Dr Pandey while strongly endorsing the fast of Dr Agarwal.
The privatization of water, use of agriculture lands as special economic zone for rapid industrialization, heavy displacement of poor people with 'development projects' which put them at grave risk of infectious diseases, are certainly not going to help India in its development goals.
With the fast-unto-death entering 11th day on Monday, 23 June 2008, 76 years old Dr GD Agarwal's commitment to save the Ganga, the environment and the rights of the most under-represented people in the development discourses, hopefully will be able to influence the Indian government to listen to the people, for a change.
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John Scott pictured during his term as Mayor alongside his wife Audrey.
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Published: 10:24 Wednesday 11 September 2019
A former Mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, who was personally affected by suicide, has welcomed a new suicide prevention strategy.
John Scott, who served as the borough's first citizen for the 2016/17 term, has backed the Department of Health's 'Protect Life 2' initiative which was launched on World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10).
Detailing some of the aims of the scheme, Richard Pengelly, Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health, said: "The challenge for 'Protect Life 2' will be to substantially reduce suicide rates by 10 per cent by 2024, in line with WHO advice.
"One of the aims is to deliver suicide prevention services and support, with a particular focus on deprived areas where self-harm rates are highest and suicide rates are over 3.5 times higher than those in the least deprived areas."
Voicing support for the new strategy, Mr Scott said: "A programme like this should have been introduced long ago. I lost two family members and two close friends to suicide over a four-month period. It is a heartbreaking issue, with more people losing their lives to suicide here than during the Troubles."
The former unionist councillor added: "It is welcoming to hear that additional money has been made available to help support the Protect Life 2 strategy.
"The sooner politicians set aside their differences and return to Stormont, the better. People are continuing to die on our streets and although the strategy is a step in the right direction, I feel more needs to be done to support those in need."
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Prisoner labelled dangerous offender beat cellmate to death with table leg
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A prison inmate who murdered his own cellmate has been jailed for life after beating the lag to death with a table leg.
Stevie Hilden, 31, beat convicted arsonist Sundeep Ghuman, 36, to death at HMP Belmarsh, the maximum security prison based in London.
Ghuman had been jailed for arson attacks in 2011 and after Hilden beat him with a table leg, was rushed to hospital and subsequently died the following day, a court has heard.
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According to the post-mortem that followed on Ghuman, he had passed away from a traumatic head injury and experienced a series of extensive bruising over his body.
Hilden is believed to have used the table leg to continually beat and eventually kill cellmate Ghuman in a murderous assault on the 36-year-old.
After his arrest, Hilden refused to answer any questions or give any explanation for his actions to police regarding his victim's injuries and how they came about.
Detective Inspector Karen Bangs, the investigating officer, said: "Sundeep suffered a sustained attack that left him seriously injured and ultimately resulted in his death.
"My thoughts remain with his family as they continue to come to terms with their loss."
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Inspector Bangs continued: "This was a complex investigation in a challenging environment and I would like to thank the prison authorities for their support throughout the process.
"Hilden is a dangerous offender and he will now spend a considerable time in a high-security prison."
Hilden denied the murder while on trial at Woolwich Crown Court and was imprisoned with a minimum of 17 years before parole was considered.
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"I have listened to all the evidence at court and wish to thank the prison officers, police officers and barristers for bringing justice for my son."
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