понедельник, 23 июля 2012
Писала в предыдущем посте про книги, нужно было правильно набрать все названия и имена авторов. Из-за компьютера я не встала, чтобы найти и посмотреть, а полезла гуглить. С точки зрения лени, наверное, нехорошо, но оказалось полезно.
Во-первых, нашла информацию о книге Рене Манфреди "Выше неба". Думаю, интересная, но весьма вероятно психологически тяжелая.
Под катом аннотация с одной из онлайн-библиотекАнне 50 лет, у нее недавно умер муж и в ее размеренной, но по сути пустой жизни преподавание микробиологии в университете является главным и единственным занятием.
Но все резко меняют две неожиданные встречи.
Первая – с собственной внучкой, 10-летней Флинн. Появление девочки в доме вовсе не радует Анну. К тому же Флинн – не обычный ребенок: она живет в собственном мире, с трудом находит общий язык со сверстниками… и постоянно общается с призраками.
Вторая – с гомосексуалистом Джеком, больным СПИДом. Язвительному и желчному ловеласу Анна помогает преодолеть отчаяние.
Через некоторое время все трое вдруг понимают, что очень близки и нужны друг другу.
Великолепно написанная, пронзительная история о дружбе, любви и надежде.Во-вторых, раньше чем планировала собрала информацию о книгах понравившегося автора. Дальше список серии на данный момент, под названиями - описания с
www.librarything.com/series/Lily+Connor+Mysteri...The Tentmaker (Lily Connor) by Michelle BlakeTo that extremely short list of crime-solving clerics who manage to be convincing as both priests and detectives (such as G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown and Ellis Peters's Brother Cadfael) , we can now add Lily Connor. "In the most peaceful of settings, she still gave off an incongruous set of messages in her jeans, hand-tooled cowboy boots, army surplus slicker and clerical collar," writes Michelle Blake of Lily in her impressive debut. "In high school she had been the skinny overgrown geek, the outcast, the reader of poems and 19th Century novels. She still pictured herself that way." Her best friend Charlie, a fellow Episcopalian priest, tries to convince her that being tall and skinny now, at 36, makes her not a geek but a cultural icon. Lily is equally unsure of her role in the church: she had been running a women's center in Boston until her father's terminal illness took her home to Texas for six months. Now she's back in Boston, working as the interim priest--or tentmaker--at a rich church whose rector has just died under circumstances that turn out to be suspicious.
Blake, a poet who has a master's degree from Harvard Divinity School, writes cool and sparkling prose that gives her first mystery an unusual depth. As the church struggles with issues of sexuality, her clerics and parishioners mirror that struggle. Did the late Father Barnes kill himself with an overdose of insulin because of his feelings toward the 16-year-old son of one of the congregation's richest members? That's one possibility; even worse is the chance that Father Barnes was murdered because of someone else's sins. Equally riveting is Lily's growing dilemma: what to do with the potential scandal that she has unearthed. "Back at her desk, she thought of the ways in which her life and vocation had always been so clear to her, the terrain mapped miles into the future--mountains and plains, good guys and bad guys, right and wrong, faith, friendship. Now she groped down a dim corridor, feeling her way inch by inch, barely able to tell where she stood at that instant, much less where anyone else stood, much less where she was headed."
It's this quality of enriched uncertainty that bonds us with Lily, regardless of our own beliefs, and makes this such a promising debut. --Dick Adler
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 039914577X, Hardcover)Earth Has No Sorrow by Michelle BlakeThe much anticipated second novel featuring Lily James Connor, an Episcopalian priest whose passion for the truth forces her to confront evil-even when it dwells within her own church.
"A wonderful debut: amazing, graceful, satisfying."-San Francisco Chronicle review of The Tentmaker
The Tentmaker made an exciting debut on the mystery scene-one that promised "many good things to come," said the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Now Earth Has No Sorrow finds Lily Connor, tall and skinny, an unusual figure in her jeans, hand-tooled cowboy boots, and clerical collar, still in Boston, running her Women's Center downtown, and serving on an ecumenical council whose purpose is to study anti-Semitism in the Church. But when one of the council-sponsored events is disrupted by a sophisticated, vitriolic hate crime and a dear friend disappears, Lily is thrown into the middle of a dangerous game that will not only test her faith, but will put everything-and everyone-she knows and loves in jeopardy.
In The Tentmaker, Michelle Blake gave us an unforgettable character-in Earth Has No Sorrow, she's done that and much more, combining a fast-moving plot and a fresh setting with an uncommonly rich depth of feeling.
(retrieved from Amazon Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:28:35 -0400)The Book of Light by Michelle BlakeWhen Lily Connor takes a job as interim chaplain at Tate University, an all but Ivy League school just down the road from Harvard, she's happy to discover that an old friend of hers from seminary is now there as well. It's clear, however, that something is wrong with Samantha-she is thin and skittish and, more important, she looks scared. And when Samantha asks Lily for her help, it becomes something more perilous than Lily could have ever imagined.
Someone has been sending Samantha photographs, purportedly of an ancient scroll known as the Book of Light, believed to contain the transcribed words of Jesus himself. No one has ever seen it-no one even knows if it really exists. As Lily begins to investigate, it becomes dangerously clear that that is exactly the way someone wants to keep it.
(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:38:06 -0400)
@настроение:
принципиально не пишу посты без заголовка, но тут трудно придумать название
@темы:
книги,
на почитать