Griffin and Butterworth blend their talents in a seamless military adventure that could well have happened at the beginning of the Cold War with Russia. TOP SECRET is a big book but an easy read, and pages cry out to be turned for the next thrilling chapter.
The mission in this book is to get his family out of Russia and reunited with Likharev. It's a testament to the authors' skill and wide experience that the pages seem to turn themselves.
That he chooses to paint figures instead of his usual landscapes is depicted as a kind of triumph, but it’s also an unfortunate irony given how uneasily DeSoto’s characters sit within his effortless literary landscapes.
The online giants might have tried to divorce themselves from overreaching government spooks, but Scheer provides more than enough solid journalism to show that the digital dirt is knee-deep and getting deeper. A vital piece of work that demands attention.
The final rendering of justice is dramatic, public and perfect for Romans. As usual, a wealth of detail on life in Flavian Rome is effortlessly conveyed and lapped up by me. Modern wedding planners have nothing to complain about!
Much of what ails this book rests in the author who is by trade an art historian and not a fashion historian. She might think she is shedding new light on these designers or on fashion in its broadest sense, but there is way too much blah blah blah and far too much straying off topic and surmising.
In Locker’s view, Nixon’s successes place him high in the pantheon of effective presidents, but his perfidy makes an equally compelling narrative of failure.
In no way could Fashion Drawing be considered a leisurely read. Call it what it is: reading a textbook. If that’s what you’re into then have at it.
I’m not sure that this was the intended effect, but I finished reading Operation Chaos with a bewildered admiration for the unhappy spooks whose job it was to make sense of the people they spied on.