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1. What are you currently reading? Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Lownie. My friend Joanna spent a month in England and reports that the Epstein scandal is on everyone's mind there, too. Only in the UK, they're not especially interested in why Donald Trump is "in the files." It's about Lord Mandelson, the career politician who was first appointed Ambassador to the US and then fired from the post for the same reason: his relationship with Epstein and Trump. It's about the head of one of the UK's most powerful and prestigious banks who was forced out because of his relationship with Epstein. Most of all, it's about Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the Prince formerly known as Prince, and his high-spirited ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, who are now titleless and (technically) homeless because of their relationship with Epstein.
This book is England's juiciest read on the scandal, and since I don't want my view of it to be totally US-centric, I picked it up.
2. What did you recently finish reading? The Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz. In Book #2 of the series, Isabel gets everything wrong.
Isabel is the middle child and eldest daughter of the Spellmans, a family of detectives (except the oldest, David; the black sheep of the family, he became a wealthy, successful attorney). It's not that Isabel is a bad detective. Technically she seems to have many skills – planting bugs and GPS devices, doing background checks, tailing subjects. etc. It's just that she makes faulty assumptions and draws erroneous conclusions. This gets her arrested four times in three months.
She also loses her apartment(s) and needs to find a date to her last boyfriend's wedding. To an Olympian. It doesn't do a lot for a girl's ego to be down on her luck at the precise moment her ex is marrying a world class specimen.
These books are very funny but even more than that, they have a lot of heart. Time spent with the Spellmans is time well spent.
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