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"Murder in the Dog Park: Bad Girl. Good Cop. Bad Dog" takes place in down and dirty Baltimore.Tough chick Jane Ronson uses her computer hacking and street fighting skills to save the day with help from Archie, her Bull Terrier. Jill Yeskohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803659990807194808noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691215839564951022.post-67052358666751063522015-11-29T14:09:00.002-08:002015-11-29T14:09:18.209-08:00We Miss You Lisbeth Salander!<h2 class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Though Stieg Larsson, creator of the Millennium Trilogy, has been gone nearly a decade, when I heard a new novel--one written by fellow Swede-- was in the works, I got a little excited. </h3>
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And who could blame me? Larsson created one of the most compelling, hard ass, take no prisoners, computer hacking genius heroines of early 21st century fiction. </h3>
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When Larsson died the world thought we'd lost Lisbeth as well.</h3>
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Now we have <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Girl-Spiders-Web-continuing/dp/0385354282" target="_blank"><i>The Girl in the Spider's Web</i></a>, the long-anticipated follow up to <i>The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest</i>. Billed as "A Lisbeth Salander Novel", <i>Spider's Web</i> is to the Millennium Trilogy what hamburger is to Kobe Beef. Both are qualify as red meat, but only one is something you want to sink your teeth into.</h3>
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I really wanted to like <i>Spider's Web</i>. So much so that I drove across town to the library to take out the large type edition (yeah, I didn't want the book so badly that I was willing to buy it. Still).</h3>
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Even the large type edition, which meant I didn't need my glasses to read it, didn't make me happy.</h3>
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The problem is that <i>The Girl in the Spider's Web</i> is boring. Not so boring that I wanted to put it down halfway. But enough that I don't remember much of the plot and don't care to visit Wikipedia to refresh my memory.</h3>
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The issue is that author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lagercrantz" target="_blank">David Lagercranz</a> has tried too hard to please readers hungry for what Larsson envisioned as a ten book series. Instead of picking and choosing characters to re-introduce to readers after a 10 year hiatus, he crams them all in like a Thanksgiving dinner groaning board. Too many characters with too little to do in one novel. Big mistake.</h3>
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Besides, we really don't care about lesser players like Detective Sonja Modig and heiress Harriet Vanger. Langercranz doesn't give his second stringers much to do other than to name check them to make readers feel like they are still in play.</h3>
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Instead we get a watered down plot, and worse, a watered down Lisbeth Salander. Yeah, there's an agsty Blomkvist who worries that he's obsolete (welcome to middle age buddy). </h3>
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<span style="color: red;">What happened to the Lisbeth who hog tied then tattooed "I am a rapist and a sadistic pig" on her attackers torso then shoved a dildo up his ass?</span></h2>
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Maybe Lagercranz was under pressure to present a more grown up Lisbeth or one that he thought would appeal to a more broad audience. Whatever he's done, it's a tremendous disservice to the legions of Lisbeth fans who want...no...demand their heroine to take control of the novel. At the very least he could have had her ride her motorcycle or punch someone other than her boxing partner. </h3>
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Aside from some international computer hacking hijinx involving the NSA and the Swedish Police, there isn't a lot going on in <i>Spider's Web</i>. You get a little sucked in then the book fizzles out. There is a cliffhinger ending but it's so timid that I wouldn't even issue a spoiler alert.</h3>
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Jill Yeskohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803659990807194808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691215839564951022.post-61923951529848448192015-04-19T04:31:00.002-07:002015-04-19T04:31:42.710-07:00Strangers & Secrets<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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The book trailer for <a href="http://murderinthedogpark.com/" target="_blank"><i>Dog Spelled Backwards: An Unholy Mystery</i></a> is in the works </h2>
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<i>Check out the production stills and stay tuned for its exciting debut</i></h2>
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Jill Yeskohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803659990807194808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691215839564951022.post-41449763142372174862014-12-24T04:52:00.005-08:002014-12-24T04:52:54.197-08:00Nerd Girl<h2>
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Jill Yeskohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803659990807194808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691215839564951022.post-16009040112799343612014-11-19T07:03:00.003-08:002014-11-19T07:03:56.112-08:00Sneak Peek: Excerpt from "Sleeping Dogs Don't Lie"<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Bring me a bottle of champagne," Mandy said, her voice slurred and throaty. "We’re celebrating."<br /><br />“What are we celebrating?” I asked. I still couldn’t bring myself to look at her Bride of Frankenstein face.<br /><br />“The destruction of ex-husband."<br /><br />“That’s pretty dramatic,” I snapped. Another waiter appeared. He placed two Champagne flutes on the table then topped them off with the bubbling liquid. <br /><br />“What does that have to do with me?” I asked. I wondered if a fancy joint like Lucien’s had Bud Lite on tap.<br /><br />Mandy downed her glass in one swallow. “You did bang up job of ruining my life,” she said, fixing me a Kabuki-like stare. “In the wake of your so-called investigation of the so-called ‘murder in the dog park'...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mandy paused. I couldn’t avoid looking at her. I squinted doing my best Clint Eastwood imitation. <br /><br />“As I was saying,” Mandy continued, “after you meddled in our lives Brice divorced me. My alimony is a mere pittance. I live like a pauper. I’ve been forced to move to a condominium in Towson of all places. Of course, someone like you can understand what it’s like to live in such reduced circumstances.”<br /><br />My blood pressure zoomed into the red zone. “Listen plastic face,” I said, forcing myself to look her in her unblinking eyes. “I only came here because you said you had some work for me, not to be insulted by someone who deserved what was coming to her. You’re personal problems are of zero concern to me.”<br /><br />“Fair enough,” Mandy replied. “You didn’t deserve to have your cousin locked up,” Mandy said. “I sincerely apologize.” Mandy reached out and squeezed my hand. “Do you accept my apology?”<br /><br />Her sudden change of tone made me even more wary of her motives. “Yeah, whatever,” I said, trying to get her to release her bony grip. I tried shaking her hand but she held on tighter. It was like being grabbed by a mummy. “I haven’t got all day for this Oprah crap,” I said, finally breaking free. “What exactly do you need me to do?”<br /><br />“Find a hit man to get rid of Brice.”<br /><br />“Excuse me?”<br /><br />“You heard me just fine.”<br /><br />“I only have one good ear,” I said, tapping my prosthetic ear. “Repeat.”<br /><br />“I want you to eliminate my ex-husband Brice Legg-Alexander,” Mandy shouted at me. The other diners turned to stare at us. I ducked my head into my chin. “Lower your goddam voice,” I said under my breath. You’re making a scene.”<br /><br />“I know you’re the type of person to do this,” Mandy continued. “You’re ruthless and you have no morals. I should think this kind of job is right up your alley.”<br /><br />I laughed so hard the table shook, almost knocking over the Champagne glasses. “I guess I should be flattered you think so highly of me,” I said, still giggling. “I’m no killer Mandy, and I don’t know any hit men.” I held up my left hand so Mandy could see my wedding ring. “I’m married to a cop. I’m on the right side of the law now. You want to someone to pop your husband? Get a gun and do it yourself.”<br /><br />“Can you buy it for me?” <br /><br />“No!” I said, glancing at my iPhone. “Look, I gotta go. It’s been a nice lunch, but I’ve got to get back to reality.”<br /><br />“Wait,” Mandy cried out, grabbing my arm as I rose to leave. “I’ve got another idea. Let’s eat lunch and talk. My treat.”</span></span><br />
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<br />Jill Yeskohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803659990807194808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691215839564951022.post-68094767032377726372014-08-20T21:32:00.001-07:002014-08-20T21:32:20.127-07:00Ass Kickers<br />
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Jill Yeskohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803659990807194808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691215839564951022.post-14465202488337536222014-04-09T03:11:00.002-07:002014-04-09T03:12:39.925-07:00MIssing Lisbeth<div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />Jill Yeskohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803659990807194808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691215839564951022.post-31889177207288021612014-04-06T13:26:00.002-07:002014-04-06T13:26:40.088-07:00Jo Nesbo's "Crime Noire"<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">Nordic noire superstar author <a href="http://jonesbo.com/en/" target="_blank">Jo Nesbo</a> has been commissioned to write a "crime noire" version of<i> Macbeth</i>, Shakespeare's darkest tragedy </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Read all about it and more in his new <a href="http://bit.ly/OnX9iq" target="_blank">interview in The Guardian</a></span></span></div>
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Jill Yeskohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803659990807194808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691215839564951022.post-14441349500505270282014-03-23T07:51:00.000-07:002014-03-23T07:51:12.796-07:00Book Review: The Real Corpse Pose<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-measureme="1"><span class="null">What’s a 30something Seattle
yoga teacher to do when she finds a dead body and a snarling German
Shepherd on her yoga studio’s doorstep? </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-measureme="1"><span class="null"> If you’re writer and real-life yoga studio owner <a href="http://tracyweberauthor.com/buy.html" target="_blank">Tracy Weber</a>, you first
take a deep, cleansing breath, then sit down with a cup of organic chai,
and pen a fast-paced mystery that will keep you wondering whodunnit
until the last page. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-measureme="1"><span class="null"><i> Murder Strikes a Pose</i> has just the right mixture of blood (hey, the
title does say “murder”), guts (as in a gutsy heroine), and sex appeal
(a cute guy who works in a pet store is a can’t miss) to enliven its 274
pages.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-measureme="1"><span class="null"> I enjoyed getting to know protagonist Kate, a yoga teacher with an
attitude who seamlessly makes her way from warrior one pose to ace
amateur private eye without losing her balance. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-measureme="1"><span class="null">That Kate enjoys red
wine and can hold her own against bad guys earns her big points in my
world. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-measureme="1"><span class="null">So roll up your yoga mat and grab a copy of <i>Murder Strikes a Pose</i>. It’s a
bark out loud great read!</span></span></span>Jill Yeskohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803659990807194808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691215839564951022.post-32339402787957483022014-02-12T04:26:00.002-08:002014-02-12T04:26:16.582-08:00Icelandic Crime Fiction: Interview with Arnaldur Indridason<div id="article-body-blocks">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">Excerpt from Nicholas Wroe's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/jun/17/featuresreviews.guardianreview11" target="_blank">Guardian</a> interview with Arnaldur Indridason, the dean of Icelandic crime fiction and winner of </span></span><span style="color: red;">the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award. </span></h2>
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A child's birthday party in a new housing development on the
outskirts of Reykjavik. As the sugar-filled excitement builds to an
unbearable cacophony, an adult guest sits quietly watching a toddler
gnawing on a toy.<br />
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So opens Arnaldur Indridason's award-winning 2005
novel Silence of the Grave (translated by Bernard Scudder). The smiling
little girl eventually comes nearer and the adult looks more intently at
her scruffy toy. It is revealed as a piece of bone, a 10cm-long strip
of human rib, "off-white in colour and worn smooth where it had broken."<br />
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Enter Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaldur_Indri%C3%B0ason" target="_blank">Arnaldur Indridason's</a> "gloomy Scandinavian"
50-something detective (broken marriage, heroin-addict daughter, lonely
evenings reading Icelandic sagas), whose melancholy doggedness will cast
light on deeply buried family history, wartime atrocities and booming
economic change.<br />
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"I suppose that scene is pretty disgusting,"
laughs Indridason, sipping coffee in a café overlooking the city of
<a href="http://www.visitreykjavik.is/" target="_blank">Reykjavik</a> and the dramatic snow-covered heights of Mount Esja behind it.
"But I wrote about films for 20 years and Alfred Hitchcock was my
favourite director. So in a way it is a tribute to him. I think it is
also a little bit funny and I hope it catches some of his combination of
humour and mayhem."<br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82991.Silence_of_the_Grave" target="_blank"><b>Silence of the Grave</b></a> is the fourth of seven
novels featuring Erlendur - Icelanders always address each other by
first name - although only the second to be translated into English. A
third, Voices (sixth in the series, it opens with the discovery of a
murdered Father Christmas; still in red suit and white beard but with a
bloody stab wound to the heart, trousers round his ankles and a condom
hanging from his penis) will be published by Harvill in the UK next
month.<br />
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All are set in Iceland and all deal with social and
political issues that, while not exclusive to Iceland, are shaped by a
specific local resonance: a national DNA data base for this genetically
homogenous population, domestic violence, the legacy of war and
colonisation, migration from the country to the city.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Indridason's
incorporation of aspects of the Icelandic literary tradition of saga,
such as the sometimes bloodthirsty repercussions of actions down the
generations, further root the stories deep in this most idiosyncratic
culture and landscape. "Especially that crisp style where one word is
better than two," he explains. "You go straight to the point."</b></i></span><br />
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This
attention to local verisimilitude has, paradoxically, seen Indridason
become the latest in a line of Scandinavian thriller writers - Peter
Hoeg, Henning Mankell and Karin Fossum - to spectacularly break out of
their home markets in recent years. He has been described as
"fascinating and brilliant" by Val McDermid. "You would not immediately
have thought of Reykjavik as one of Europe's prominent murder centres,"
wrote Marcel Berlins, but Indridason's Icelandic capital "is as dark,
scary and lethal as Ian Rankin's Edinburgh".<br />
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Indridason has
regularly picked up literary prizes over the last few years, including
last year's Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Silence of the
Grave. Just a few days after winning the dagger he was paid what could
be seen as a back-handed compliment when it was announced that in
future, books in translation - three had won in the last five years -
would no longer be eligible. The decision led to the organisers being
accused of both Little Englandism and insulting the abilities of British
writers. The upshot has been the creation of a new prize - although one
less valuable than the main award - specifically for books in
translation.<br />
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"That decision did surprise me and of course I can't
agree it's a good development," says Indridason with exaggerated
diplomacy, "but I don't really want to dwell on it. It was a great thing
to have won, as when I started out people said I had nothing to write
about because nothing ever happens in Iceland. You can't shoot people
here. It's not Los Angeles.<br />
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But it turned out there was plenty to write
about. The thing they didn't realise was that crime fiction is about so
much more than just crime."<br />
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Indridason, born in 1961, says his
earliest exposure to the genre came at age three. "One night I couldn't
get to sleep and I went into the living room where my father was
watching a film on television. It was Little Caesar. That was my
introduction to crime and for a long time it was my favourite movie."
That he should first have come across film, rather than books, was not
inevitable. His father was the prominent Icelandic novelist Indridi
Thorsteinsson. "He was also an editor and wrote for newspapers so the
'tap tap tap' of his typewriter was always there," recalls Indridason.
"I kept my writing secret from him for quite a time. And when I did show
him a manuscript he was at first astounded. But after that he gave me
wonderful support."<br />
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After reading history at the university of
Iceland, with a dissertation on Icelandic films, Indridason wrote on
film for Morgunbladid, the biggest newspaper in the country, and edited
two reference books on Icelandic cinema. His father's status made him
hesitant to write his own fiction. "I didn't start until I was 34, which
I thought was very old. Although now I'm 45 it seems like nothing. By
then I'd seen so many bad movies that I knew how not to tell a story, as
well as how to tell one."<br />
He says he knew he had a good plot but
was worried about writing at such length. "When we were at school we
used to be given these pills that were sugary on the outside but
contained cod liver oil inside. I wondered what might be the
implications years later if they hadn't been filled with cod liver oil
but something more sinister. In the end it wasn't effortless, but I made
it. And then I had the 'tap tap tap' in my home."<br />
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He says he
hadn't set out to write a thriller. "I didn't have a prejudice against
crime writing, but when I started out crime fiction was looked down upon
in Iceland. Every 10 years or so someone would write one, but they
usually disappeared quite quickly because it wasn't considered a
literary form." Times have changed. In the summer of 2003 Indridason
occupied the top five places in the Icelandic bestseller lists and the
following year his books made up seven of the 10 most borrowed from the
Reykjavik library.<br />
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The
crime fiction that first caught his eye (as it did for another global
figure in crime writing, Martin Cruz Smith) came from Swedish Marxist
husband-and-wife team Per Wahlöö and Maj Sjöwall, whose explicitly
socially and politically aware Martin Beck novels were published in the
60s and 70s. "What I liked was that there were few fights or guns and
all the action was in the characters. This was seemingly just the office
life of a policeman doing a job, but it was fascinating."<br />
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Indridason's
first book, Sons of Earth (1997), received a predictably tepid critical
and commercial response. "One of the things they had against it was
that the names were too Icelandic. A detective should be called Morse,
or Taggart, or Rebus. Erlendur or [his colleagues] Sigurdur Oli and
Elinborg just sounded wrong to them. Book two was the same. But then
came Tainted Blood [published in 2000 in Iceland and in 2004 as his
first book in English translation] and it all turned around. Suddenly
all the Icelandic aspects of the books were praised."<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>He says he
writes for an Icelandic readership "from an Icelandic perspective. I
don't write for anyone else. So I was a little surprised that coming
from Iceland seems to have added to the appeal for readers from abroad.
It is a tremendous thrill that this tiny language can be spread." </i></b></span></blockquote>
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He has
been published in more than 30 countries, and although his overseas
readership is a few books behind Iceland, he is aware of raised
expectations and new pressures. "The best way to follow success is to
hold on to those initial reasons you decided to write. Ian Rankin said
before visiting a new city you should read crime fiction from there.
That way you find out what's happening. The crime story can be used in
so many ways to say something about society. There was a huge debate in
Iceland about a genetic data base. I used that but what really
interested me, was that there are no secrets with DNA."<br />
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Indridason
is aware he is now at a stage in his career where he could spend more
time touring and talking about his books than writing. "I prefer to be
at home working. I'm not like Salinger or Thomas Pynchon but I can see
the appeal." And his long-term aim is a simple one: "I want to really
understand Erlendur." Part of that process means understanding his
father and Iceland's recent history. Over the past 60 years Iceland has
been transformed from a poor, essentially peasant country to an
extremely affluent modern society. It is a process that has not been
without national and individual pain.<br />
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Jill Yeskohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803659990807194808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691215839564951022.post-52165084065330654382014-01-11T12:18:00.000-08:002014-01-11T12:18:03.197-08:00Wojo's Crazy World<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Have you moved?</span></span></i></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I'd done it 11 times -- and that's just since I came to Baltimore!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">If you're packing or unpacking moving boxes and need a laugh check out </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://michele%20wojciechowski/" target="_blank"> Michele Wojciechowski's (aka Wojo) book </a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Next-Time-Move-Theyll-Carry/dp/0988189305" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="st"><em>Next Time I Move</em>, <em>They'll Carry Me Out in a Box</em></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Life is always funnier in Wojo's world</span></span></span>...<br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks to everyone who came out to my book launch party for "Dog Spelled Backwards" at Baltimore's <a href="http://www.theivybookshop.com/" target="_blank">Ivy Bookshop</a>.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's a clip of me talking about those black market kidneys!</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">To paraphrase Andy Warhol....everyone should have their 2.5 minutes of fame!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ready my interview in the Dec. 6, 2013 </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">edition of the <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/print-edition/2013/12/06/25-minutes-with-jill-yesko.html" target="_blank">Baltimore Business Journal</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the <a href="http://www.theivybookshop.com/" target="_blank">Ivy Bookshop</a> for the</span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> "Dog Spelled Backwards" launch party !</span></span></span></span></h2>
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Jill Yeskohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803659990807194808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691215839564951022.post-5282712065377923292013-10-15T04:49:00.002-07:002013-10-15T04:49:50.091-07:00Patagonia's Mysterious "Lost City of the Caesers"<div align="center" class="Body" style="text-align: center;">
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Jill Yeskohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803659990807194808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691215839564951022.post-8135797421295593492013-10-13T09:30:00.004-07:002013-10-13T09:30:44.869-07:00Oink-Woof<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: red;">The Wait Is Over—</span></i> </span></h2>
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Jill Yeskohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14803659990807194808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3691215839564951022.post-81421765407186665512013-09-08T09:35:00.001-07:002013-09-08T09:35:19.793-07:00Book Review: Unleavened Dead<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To paraphrase a classic Levy's rye bread commercial: you don't have to be Jewish to love "Unleavened Dead"—but it helps.<br /><br />Even
if you're not Jewish (don't worry, you'll catch on to the lingo fast),
you will love this cozy mystery. Once again, good-natured but meddlesome
rabbi Aviva Cohen is up to her eyeballs in <i>mishegoss</i>. Her
niece's wife-to-be may be a killer, her ex-husband could be coming on to
her, the FBI and a handsome mobster are both competing for her
attention...and <i>in mitten drinnen</i>...it's almost Passover.<br /><br />Kudos
to author (and rabbi) Ilene Schneider for some of the best plotting I've come across all
year. I was kept guessing who dunnit until the last chapter. I also
laughed out loud several times (while guffawing to myself amost every
chapter) at Schneider's wry humor. Her characters are believable, warm
and will be familiar archetypes to readers of any religion, race or
creed.<br /><br />"Unleavened Dead" is a worthy 21st century successor to Harry Kemelman's "Rabbi" series.
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