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The Second Issue of Silver Streak Magazine! We Invite You to Enjoy These Special-Interest Feature Stories Contributed by Members and Instructors Welcome to the second issue of Silver Streak Magazine! We invite you to enjoy these special-interest feature stories contributed by members and instructors. Here’s what we’ve got for you in October/November 2020: Avid readers, rejoice! This issue has three pages just for book reviews and recommendations: Shari Barnes shares ideas for curling up with a good mystery or thriller, Members Jo Ann Haedge and Richard Ranc review their recent reads, And you’ll get even more ideas from our member recommendation page as several more members tell us what they’ve been reading! How about some history? Even better, Fort Worth history! Rick Selcer has chosen an eclectic variety of local trivia for us. Carolyn Stephens has been busy in the kitchen again creating tasty gifts with the help of her liquor cabinet. We’ve got even more food ideas here. Who doesn’t love a good British murder-mystery series? Check these out. Randy Smith found an interesting way to spend his summer at the ranch. Penny McAdoo turns to poetry as an uplifting way to stay in touch with friends. Accustomed to busy-ness, recently-retired Susan Layne finds a new perspective. Larry Klos invites you to read his short story with two endings. And Richard Ranc reflects on the craziness of the stock market. For future issues, we’d love to include YOUR contributions! Creative writing, gardening, how-to projects, local history, cooking, your pets, photos, sports, music, what you’re reading and watching, favorite games...the sky’s the limit. Curl Up with a Good Scare by Shari Barnes As the weather turns cool and the daylight Here are 10 of the best: hours shorten, fall is the ideal time to pick up a mystery whether it’s a whodunit, a The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell psychological thriller, a cozy mystery, crime Hammett…perhaps the best hardboiled fiction, a police procedural, true life, or spy/ detective novel ever. espionage. The Alienist by Caleb Carr…great historical Mystery is a fiction genre that typically fiction. features a baffling death or other crime that needs to be solved. Motive and opportunity The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins… are explored by the professional or amateur written by the man who is considered the first sleuth. A mystery creates a puzzle. The true mystery novelist. author has to keep readers interested until the perplexity is solved. Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley… the first Easy Rawlins novel; an unemployed There are five essentials to a mystery: WWII vet gets a job offer to find a missing …characters, including the main character woman. who usually solves the mystery The Postman Always Rings Twice by …setting, location for the action James M. Cain…the book’s sex and violence caused it to be banned in Boston. …plot, the story which contains description and suspense The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre’…may be the best spy novel …problem, an issue that has to be solved; ever written. clues about who committed the crime and why From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming… …solution, a believable and logical ending that resolves all the clues and makes for considered by many to be the finest of the happy readers Bond books. Why are mysteries so popular? The thrill of Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow…one remote fear and the ability to exercise one’s of the greatest American courtroom novels. own intellect for a resolution attracts readers Mystic River to this genre. Humans are fascinated with by Dennis Lehane…one of the crimes and the people who perpetrate them. best contemporary crime writers on the scene. Everyone is capable of violence, and In the Woods by Tana French…set in mysteries become the opportunity to modern Ireland, this police procedural is a vicariously exercise our darker side. (Ever find fascinating investigation. yourself pulling for the bad guy?) Ultimately, a Settle into your favorite chair by the fire with a mystery usually gives the reader a chance to mug of tea, and lose yourself in a mystery. see justice done. Silver Streak Magazine, October 2020 page 2 What Are You Reading? The Giver of Stars is historical fiction set in the Appalachian Mountains during the Depression Era. It is centered on the program established by Eleanor Roosevelt to distribute books to the people of Appalachia and delivered by women on mules or horseback. This book also is a typical romantic “happily ever after” about two couples whose lives are intertwined throughout the book with the inclusion of the “bookwomen” of Appalachia to add interest to the story. I was somewhat disappointed, however, having read Moyes previous book, Me Before You, and expected another similar page turner that I couldn’t put down. In The Giver of Stars, the romance was easily predictable and having recently read The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek, a much more engrossing and realistic book, I knew the story of the Appalachian book women. Bookwoman also included actual pictures of the real Appalachian packhorse women. It seems very unusual that two books concerning an event in history that, as far as I know, had not been written about previously as historical fiction, would come out within six months of each other. There has been some controversy regarding the two books with accusations of plagiarism by Moyes. Moyes is a well-known author due to her book, Me Before You, which was made into a movie. Giver of Stars has been selected by Renee Zellweger for her book club and is supposedly being made into a movie which will be a typical chick flick with everything tied up neatly in the end. Too bad no one is making a movie of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Read both books and see what you think. —Jo Ann Haedge Last year we made a promise to read the Bible If you are a fan of legal (we had done this before but never quite novels you won’t be finished) and bought The One Year Bible, disappointed by Scott produced by Tyndale, and decided to begin at Turow’s novel Testimony. the new year. On January 1, 2020 we began An investigation of atrocities and are now in October. The presentation in the Bosnian war takes methodology is not unique but we found the center stage as the structure easier to read and understand than reading the International Court calls upon ex-Kindle Old Testament and then the New. The One Year Bible is County prosecutor Bill ten Boom to find presented as a daily reading of one chapter of the Old the truth. This is an interesting journey Testament, beginning with Genesis and the New with through a novel of a not-distant war in Matthew. These readings are followed by Psalms and the Balkans and a conflict remote to Proverbs, and so forth until the final readings in most Americans. Turow writes Revelations. All 66 books of the Bible are contained in the compelling legal novels with a bit more volume. The discipline of reading a chapter each day, erudition than his fellow novelist John corresponding to the date, has kept us on track. If the Bible Grisham. is the book you have been wanting to read, but need a —Richard Ranc system to keep you going, The One Year Bible is a help. Silver Streak Magazine, October 2020 page 3 What Are You Reading? Published in 2011, American Nations by Colin I’ve recently doubled up as I e-read and audio-read Woodard explores the history of North America on long walks (which I do most days). through his theory that we have always been divided. Our divisions come from the 11 different Becoming by Michelle Obama cultures that settled our continent. Woodard His & Hers by Alice Feeney (great mystery) supports his theory with historical events starting in Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by the 1500s and ending in the early 21st century. Isabel Wilkerson (if you enjoyed The Warmth —Risa Payne of Other Suns, you’ll like this one) Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (the audio was good for accents) A masterpiece of historical fiction, HAMNET by the The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes brilliant Maggie O'Farrell, imagines William The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek by Shakespeare's family as it struggles with the Kim Richardson greatest of life's losses, that of a child. It vividly The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Edith evokes village life in 16th-century England and Eger involves the reader completely. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (the reader —Mike Mullins spoke Spanish which felt authentic) This Tender Land by William Krueger The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides I just finished reading — for the first time — A Tree And I’m rereading a favorite: Things You Save in a Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. This novel, Fire by Katherine Center as I’m leading one of my written in 1943, is the semi-autobiographical story book clubs. of Francie. I fell in love with Francie who is 11 years old when the book opens in 1912. We share As I said, I don’t usually read this much, but hey, Francie's life growing up in Brooklyn until she goes it’s been great for me during COVID. to college at 17. —Leslie Dell —Debbie Griffith I just read The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Oh my goodness...I'm reading, reading, reading! Harmel...enjoyed it. Some of my very favorites these past few months —Kakai Bowers (or past many months!) have been: Louise Penny's All the Devils Are Here, Karin Slaughter's The Silent Wife, The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders Harmel and 28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand.
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