Overboard by Sara Paretsky: A review
This is the twenty-first novel in the V.I. Warshawski series that Sara Paretsky first began publishing in 1982 with Indemnity Only . I've read them all. I've been a Warshawski fan since the beginning. So for forty years, Paretsky has been writing these books and I've been reading them. And one thing that I have enjoyed about them is that V.I. has aged through them, if not exactly forty years then at least enough to simulate reality. In this latest book, V.I. may be feeling the weight of those years a bit but her passion for justice is undiminished. As often in her cases, a teenager is involved. V.I., the hardboiled detective, has a certifiable soft spot for teenagers. This time it is a teenage girl who V.I.'s dog Mitch finds when they are on a walk around Lake Michigan. The girl is injured and unconscious and has only a faint pulse when V.I. checks her. She calls an ambulance and the girl is taken to the hospital after uttering only one word which seems to make no s
Now we will truly see if the Founding Fathers made a system strong enough to hold up against what is to come. Well quoted.
ReplyDeleteYes, the system that they put in place will be tested as it never has been before.
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ReplyDeleteThat sums it up, doesn't it?
DeleteToday I feel hope and anxiety in equal measure. Expect to feel that way for some time. My spirit is with the women marching. As usual the press yesterday reported on the little bit of violence instead of the groundswell of peaceful patriots. Here we go.
ReplyDeleteThe protests, not just here but around the world, are amazing. I can't march with them but I am certainly with them in spirit and support them every way that I can.
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