Books and Beyond

Yesterday at midnight, A robber broke into my house. At first, I didn’t realize that he had broken in. When the fridge door slammed shut, I woke Abruptly from my deep slumber. I waited for him to come bustling in my room with guns blazing And waited and waited. When nothing happened, I got out of bed, and found the telephone. I dialed 911. They picked up the phone. ‘Hello. Hello! Hello?’ No response. I opened the closet and got my trusty baseball bat out. I went down the stairs. On the ground floor, I suddenly crashed into someone. I beat him with my bat. I turned around and found someone staring at me with pitiful eyes. I turned back, And saw only shards of a broken mirror. I heard one word. ‘Dad?’ He spoke again: ‘Dad, it’s me, John. I bought you some medicine. This should help with you.’ I looked at my hands, the mirror shards and then back at him. I didn’t recognize anything. I fainted. This morning, I ...

An interesting book, albeit slow and sluggish at times. However, the author,  Jonathan de Shalit (a pseudonym) is a former high-ranking member of the Israeli Intelligence Community and that is what exactly drew me to this book in the first place. The very inner side of the book's cover states who he is and how this book had to be vetted and approved particularly by a special Governmental Ministers’ Committee. Based on the plot and the intricacies involved as well as the fine attention to detail, it is evident that the author is well versed and experienced in his previous occupational field. In  Traitor , a young Israeli man presents himself at an American embassy in the heart of Rome to offer himself to commit treason by becoming a spy against his own country. However the very person to whom he offers his service is in turn serving Russian interests. After several years of spying on and sharing all high level secrets of the Israeli government, it is nothing short of a shoc...

Book Name: How to Walk Away Author: Katherine Center Synopsis (from Goodreads): Margaret Jacobsen has a bright future ahead of her: a fiancé she adores, her dream job, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in one tumultuous moment. In the hospital and forced to face the possibility that nothing will ever be the same again, Margaret must figure out how to move forward on her own terms while facing long-held family secrets, devastating heartbreak, and the idea that love might find her in the last place she would ever expect. My review: “It’s the trying that heals you.” “When you don’t know what to do for yourself, do something for someone else.” "Sometimes the last thing you want is the one thing you need." Ok...I started with the quotes, because this book has so many of them, placed here and there within the stor...