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Just imagine how you would feel if you walked in on your boyfriend kissing your friend. That is what happened to Augusta Curtis, better known as Gus.

Everything seemed to be going great for Gus. She had a secure job, a couple of good friends and a new boyfriend, Nate, who she has been dating for about four months. One day she stopped by to visit Nate and that is when she discovered the unimaginable.

Frenemies is defined as “the friend who gives you the sweetest smile to your face, while holding the sharpest knife to your back”. What does Gus do about this situation with Nate and her friend, Helen?

Gus is approaching her thirtieth birthday and figured it was time to grow up. That is until all of this happened. She really does want some kind of revenge but her friends don’t like this idea and they seem to be acting strange. Gus feels like she is going backwards to her teenage years instead of growing up.

Does this situation prevent Gus from growing up?

Megan Crane does a wonderful job of making the reader feel the emotions that Gus is going through. On one side she is betrayed by someone who she thought was her friend and on the other is Nate who really fits the definition of a “frenemy”. The characters are well drawn and it won’t take you long to see how Helen can start to get on your nerves. The author does a good job of getting the main point across – in order to make something happen you have to be able to understand yourself first. This book makes for a quick and entertaining summer read and it is one you will not want to put down. Be sure to add Frenemies to your reading list.

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When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch arrive in Appaloosa, they find a town suffering at the hands of a rancher named Randall Bragg that means to own everything in it, and who has already left the city Marshall and one of his deputies dead. Cole and Hitch are used to cleaning up after scavengers, but this one raises the stakes by playing not by the rules, but with emotion. Cole and Hitch are hired to save the town from Bragg, but a young attractive widow arrives to complicate matters. Based on the novel by Robert B. Parker (creator of “Spencer for Hire”), this western delivers!

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Gregor Samsa’s sister, Grete, in The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, seems to undergo a metamorphosis that is parallel to her brother’s. As Gregor takes on the characteristics of an insect, Grete gains her independence and maturity.

Before Gregor’s transformation, Grete seems to be his only close companion. She writes letters to him while he is away from home, and her first words to Gregor in the story are kind and caring: “Gregor? Aren’t you well? Are you needing anything?” (368). Later in the story, we learn that Gregor had planned to announce to his family his intention to send Grete to the Conservatorium, suggesting his close relationship with her.

After Gregor’s transformation, Grete initially seems to care about and feel concern for his well-being, as she would have before his metamorphosis. When she first sees Gregor, she shuts the door quickly in surprise, but she opened it again and “came in on tiptoe, as if she were visiting an invalid or even a stranger” (378). She didn’t want to disturb him and acted very polite around him. She sets out different types of food for him, to see which he likes the best. She also notices his new habits of his, and helps him keep them. For instance, leaving the chair by the window when she notices that he moves it there.

Through this, however, there is an obvious detachment and separation from Gregor after his transformation. The fact that Grete entered Gregor’s room feeling like he was a stranger implies her changed feeling toward him. Gregor had a basin “for his exclusive use,” as if his family could not use something after he had touched it (378). Also, his sister never touches the food that he doesn’t eat, even when it is apparent that he didn’t touch the food.

The sight of Gregor seems to cause a change in Grete’s behavior toward her brother. This may be evident when Gregor covers himself with a sheet, and he “even fancied that he caught a thankful glance from her eye” (382). Before this incident, Grete views Gregor as her brother in an unfortunate state. After she sees him, however, she begins to see him more as a creature than as her brother. At the same time, Gregor is beginning to eat less and act more like an insect than a human.

Another example of Grete’s changed attitude toward Gregor is her increasingly protective attitude toward the responsibility of taking care of Gregor, which soon seems to be more of a struggle between Grete and her parents than that of care for her brother. Gregor’s predicament creates an opportunity for Grete to be seen as more helpful and responsible to her parents. It seems that Grete becomes more concerned with cleaning Gregor’s room to prove her responsibility and maturity to her parents, and not necessarily with looking after Gregor’s welfare. Gregor still sees her, however, as “only a child despite the efforts she was making and had perhaps taken on so difficult a task merely out of childish thoughtlessness” (382).

Grete has her own opinions of what is good for Gregor, which many times opposes Gregor’s feelings, and she sees herself as “an expert in Gregor’s affairs” (384). Also, quite frequently these opinions oppose her parents’ views, which indicates that she is disagreeing with them for the sake of disagreeing, and again not concerning herself with the well-being of her brother. Grete is given a great deal of power when taking the role of caretaker over Gregor, and she uses the full extent of this power, and perhaps even abuses it. she is the one to decide if someone is allowed to visit Gregor and she determines what should be done with Gregor’s room.

Progressively, Grete begins to act against Gregor and begins to show less consideration and concern for his feelings, just as Gregor is beginning to care less about his family and more about his own situation. When Grete’s father comes home after Gregor has scared his mother and is out of his room, Grete doesn’t try to defend Gregor. Gregor gathers that “Grete’s all too brief statement” will lead to his father’s anger (386).

Another example of Grete’s changed feelings toward Gregor is the appearance of Gregor’s room. At first, when she notices that he likes to crawl around on the walls and ceiling, she clears his path by taking away furniture. Later, his room becomes a storage area for unneeded things from the rest of the house. She begins to neglect areas of Gregor’s room that become increasingly unclean.

Gregor has also gained an outside perspective of his appearance through the actions and reactions of Grete. In one instance, after Grete comes early to Gregor’s rom and sees him, she “jumped back as if in alarm and banged the door shut.” Gregor then states that “this made him realize how repulsive the sight of him still was to her” (382).

Grete continuously views Gregor as more of a creature, until Gregor comes out of his room to hear his sister play the violin and scares away the three lodgers. Grete says, “I won’t utter my brother’s name in the presence of this creature” (394). She continues to refer to him as a creature by referring to Gregor as “it” and, finally, questions whether the insect really is Gregor.

The final realization of Grete’s metamorphosis is at the end of the story when Grete’s parents “became aware of their daughter’s increasing vivacity” and see that “she had bloomed into a pretty girl with a good figure” (399).

The point at which Grete is seen as having changed through the situation into a young woman is also the point at which Gregor is viewed by himself and the people around him, as well, as no longer human, but an insect to be thrown out with the garbage.

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The Professional TIMS REVIEW – Timothy G. Vanbibber – TX. USA
WELL I READ IT, AND I MUST SAY I WAS DISAPOINTED. SPENSER JUST DOSEN’T HAVE THE SNAP HE USED TO. MAYBE IT IS TIME FOR HIM TO RETIRE. IT SEEMS THAT MR.PARKER IS TIRED OF WRITTING SPENSER. I WILL KEEP READING HIM AS LONG AS MR.PARKER WRITES BUT, I HOPE THE OLD SPENSER RETURNS. EVEN A BAD SPENSER IS A GOOD READ.
RIP Robert B Parker..Enjoy The Big Sleep

Criminal Minds star Joe Mantegna has been doing the Spenser Audio book series for a number of years. He hits his stride early in his narration of The Professional. Mantegna knows to let text speak for itself. He does great vocal shading of the characters. Still, it is the way Parker can turn a phrase into something to listen to. His Spenser novels (and audio books) are usually in the first person, and Mantegna makes the situation shine on audio

Spenser is never better than in this book. This modern day Sam Spade has a blackmail case with four rich women and a gigolo. It gets complicated, as most Spenser novels do. This is not a locked room Agatha Christie novel. It is a modern day pulp novel.

Just know this, but any Spenser audio/novel is a throwback to classic A Hammett private eye tales with some modern day twists. The end of the book you can see it coming for a half hours before it epilogs on the CD. However this one is worth its weight in audio gold.

When I wrote this column, Author Robert B Parker Passed away at 77. I will miss all Spenser, Jess Stone and Sunny Randall novels that the world will never see. Ace Atkins, author of “Devil’s Garden,” Wicked City” and several other novels. “When Parker brought out Spenser, it reinvigorated the genre. For me and countless others, we owe for him and reinventing Chandler’s work and bringing it to the modern age. I wouldn’t have a job now without Robert Parker.”

Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD : A knock on Spenser’s office door can only mean one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story. Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she’s developed a friendship with wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: they’ve all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhower- and now he’s blackmailing them for money. Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower “cease and desist,” so to speak, but when women start turning up dead, Spenser’s assignment goes from blackmail to murder.

As matters become more complicated, Spenser’s longtime love, Susan, begins offering some input by analyzing Eisenhower’s behavior patterns in hopes of opening up a new avenue of investigation. It seems that not all of Gary’s women are rich. So if he’s not using them for blackmail, then what is his purpose? Spenser switches tactics to focus on the husbands, only to find that innocence and guilt may be two sides of the same coin.

With its eloquently spare prose and some of the best supporting characters to grace the printed page, The Professional is further proof that “[t]here’s hardly an author in the crime novel business like Parker” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).

Sue Grafton and Robert B. Parker: Author One-on-One
In this Amazon exclusive, we brought together blockbuster authors Sue Grafton and Robert B. Parker and asked them to interview each other.

Sue Grafton is the New York Times-bestselling author of the beloved Kinsey Millhone mystery series, which continues to delight millions of readers across the globe. Read on to see Sue Grafton’s questions for Robert B. Parker, or turn the tables to see what Parker asked Grafton.

Grafton: During your career, you’ve generally worked as a solo writer. Aside from your collaboration with Raymond Chandler (quite dead), how did you enjoy the experience of writing with your wife, Joan? I notice a long break between Three Weeks in Spring, which was published in 1978, and A Year at the Races, which was published in 1990.

Parker: Joan is an idea person more than a writer. She has done a lot of uncredited thinking for me. But Three Weeks in Spring, about her first bout with breast cancer, was a special case. And A Year at the Races, also nonfiction, was about our initiation into the world of thoroughbred racing. I have found it wise for me to write and Joan to think (egad, what if it were the other way?), but I have also found it wise not to speak for her. I liked working with her. In fact, I like pretty much everything with her.

Grafton: I notice in your bibliography that you wrote a nonfiction book called Parker on Writing. I’d be interested in reading it, but I decided I couldn’t afford the 9.99 the book is selling for online. How do you feel about a reprint? (P.S. This is not a sly hint that you should send me a copy….)

Parker: Parker on Writing is a collection of random items loosely about writing that Herb Yellin at Lord John Press collected into a finely manufactured limited edition. Herb is a friend, and given what he paid, I can convincingly say it was affection not money that captured me. I feel fine about a reprint…. If I have an extra I will send you one, but I’ll have to look—it’s quite possible that I don’t.

Grafton: I’m curious about your experience in writing Chasing the Bear: A Young Spenser Novel. What prompted you to write about Spenser’s early life? Did you learn things about him you hadn’t known before?

Parker: My publisher, agent, and wife all wanted me to try a YA novel. I did three, culminating, at my publisher’s request, with Chasing the Bear. Since I knew a great deal about Spenser’s adulthood, it was mostly a matter of jacking up the adulthood and sliding a consistent childhood under it. YA novels are hard because you know a great deal that you can’t use.

Grafton: I saw the movie Appaloosa last night on DVD, and while I haven’t had a chance to read the novel and study the two side by side, I got the impression that the movie was close to what you had in mind. Will you write about Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch again? You did seem to leave the door open to that possibility.

Parker: I’ve written two sequels to Appaloosa (Resolution and Brimstone) and am finishing up a third (Blue-Eyed Devil). Ed Harris did a wonderful job, I thought, with the movie. It is as close as it could possibly be to the book, and those parts that had to be added are hard for me to tell from my own stuff. Harris is genius, as is Viggo [Mortensen]—they nailed the characters and the relationship. You can also take Ed Harris’s word—in your own adventures in Southern California you may have noticed how infrequent that is. Incidentally, Bragg’s lawyer in the courtroom scene was played by the great Daniel T. Parker.

Grafton: How do you spend your time when you’re not writing? Hobbies? Leisure activities? I’m not very good at having fun, but I’m hoping you are. Please advise.

Parker: My friend John Marsh once remarked, “I hate fun.” I concur. Mostly, I just live my life, which turns out to be fun. I work out, box with a trainer, watch ball games, go out to dinner with Joan. You’ve met Joan. We’ve been married fifty-three years. Now that’s fun.

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• The Boxer and the Spy
• Split Image (Jesse Stone)
• Brimstone

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Perennial Favorites [ENHANCED CD] the jazziest garden ever! – Angie Engles – Columbia, MD United States

In the late 90s I first discovered the Squirrel Nut Zippers. Every time I listen to their CD Perennial Favorites this amazement sweeps over me. Previous to that listening experience I’d heard their single “Hell” and marveled at such a devious, toe-tapping song lamenting and warning of the dangers of that infamous place we got to when we die and we’ve been very, very, very bad.

The Squirrel Nut Zippers are known for merging wonderfully zingy jazz sounds from the 20s and 30s with a little bit of modern insights that are at times delightfully delicious and mildly mad. Perennial Favorites is consistently good throughout the entire album.

With “Suits Are Picking Up the Bill,” you get New Orleans magic and happy smiles with a little hint of the Cotton Club thrown in. On “Low Down Man” you get a little bit country, 1950s style (the pedal steel guitar complements singer Katherine Whalen’s sadly touching vocals).

“Ghost of Stephen Foster” starts off with a haunting Middle Eastern riff then seques into a full Gypsy swing that threatens to undo you with its energy and spooky sounds befitting a ghost. Jim Mathus is most amazing when he sings: “Rooms were made for carpets/towers made for spires/ships were made for cannonade/to fire off from inside them.”

“Trou Macacq” is the only “copycat” song on the album (in that they’ve almost stolen their own previous material)…a dead ringer for “Hell” (which appears on the “Hot” cd) Though it’s pretty much identical in terms of the music, when it comes to the words, the lyrics are far better than those on “Hell.”

Perhaps my favorite song…My Drag” hums with Hungarian zip. I want to eat gulash and dance on table tops every single time I play the track. It’s a perfect example of just how good Katherine Whalen’s phrasing is as a vocalist.

“Soon” reminds me of the Beatles, particularly their “Sgt. Pepper” days while “Evening at Lafitte’s” and “The Kraken”(to me, at least) are the only two disappointments on Perennial Favorites.
I have been a fan of the Zippers since I first saw the video for “Hell” on MTV…back when they still played videos! It is very sad to know that they have disbanded and we will never hear another album from these fine performers. It was never fair that they got lumped into the same category as some of the “swing revival” bands that came about in the mid to late 90’s because not only were they better than any of those bands, in my opinion, but they were also so much more than a “swing band”. I always felt they covered the whole gambit of popular music (even if they did it with help form their Granddaddies record collection!), while at the same time adding just enough of the peculiar and absurd to make the music sound fresh. In other words, their music sounds very familiar, yet you’ve never quite heard anything like it before…if that makes any sense! But one things for sure, if you’re ever having a party, even if it’s just a family gathering, pop in one of their CD’s and you will have people tapping their feet and asking you for the name of the group in no time!

I own all of their albums, including the spectacular “Christmas Caravan”, and listen to all of them frequently (especially once the summer BBQ’s start happening!), but I find myself coming back to Perennial Favorites the most often. Each of their albums would get 5 stars from me, hands down (even Bedlam Ballroom grew on me after a few listens), but there is something about this one that makes me want to pop it in the stereo and blast my speakers on a more regular basis! My favorite track has got to be “The Ghost Of Stephen Foster”! With the bands frantic playing, Jimbo’s possessed vocals, and the great Andrew Bird’s goosebump inducing fiddle playing, this track is one of my all-time favorites by the band. It’s in fact Jimbo Mathus who leaves the biggest impression on me with this album. His inspired and raucous vocals, as well as his clever lyrics, (although I’m still unsure what, “If we were made of cellophane, we’d all get stinking drunk much faster!” is supposed to mean…but I love it anyway!), are at the helm of many of my favorite songs on this album. Including the drunken late night wail of “That Fascinating Thing”…I’m telling you, give your friends a few cocktails and blast that song, I promise they’ll all be swaying to the music in no time…a band has to be really good to sound that sloppy! Katherine is exquisite as always, and Tom Maxwell’s sense of humor and peculiar lyrics, as well as his unique voice, are yet another highlight of this wonderful album…his screaming proclamation, “If you draw a bow draw the strongest. Yes!!! And if you use and arrow use the longest!”, is my favorite moment of the great track “Soon”. And “Trou Macacq” is a fantastic song about the trials and tribulations of becoming a successful band…”We became the monkeys riding the race.”

By the time the album comes to it’s end, with the aptly titled “It’s Over”, I find myself exhausted because I inevitably have been dancing around the house throughout the whole thing…yet I don’t want the music to end! But alas, like the band says, “Just when you think the parties starting, it’s over….”
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Genre: ROCK/POP Recorded over a year before its release and put on hold thanks to the phenomenal ride of 1996’s Hot, their third release is where the jazz-hoppin’ Squirrel Nut Zippers separate from the rest of the nostalgic Voodoo Cherry Daddy pack. Perennial Favorites covers a lot of ground: aching balladry (”Low Down Man,” complete with pedal steel and intoned lovingly by chanteuse Katharine Whalen), hilarious show-tune homages (”Ghost of Stephen Foster”), romping props to the past (”Pallin’ with Al,” a nod to guitarist Al Casey). Thanks to imaginative arrangements, “The Kraken” and “My Drag” transcend retro hipness to forge unique sonic paths. “Suits Are Picking Up the Bill,” a zingy diatribe on capitalism, may not turn out to be a smash hit like the earlier “Hell,” but these Favorites should endure. –Don Harrison Perennial Favorites [ENHANCED CD]

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• The Inevitable
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• Mugzy’s Move
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