Archive for May, 2009
Holy Fools by Joanne Harris
REVIEW BY JONI RENDON
From the best-selling author of Chocolat and Five Quarters of the Orange comes this rapturous and page-turning story of devotion, deceit and religious persecution set in 17th-century France. In Holy Fools, Joanne Harris departs from the culinary themes she is known for, but the result is no less delicious. Her trademark sensory [...]
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
The novel begins immediately after the end of World War II and chronicles the story of three young women who embark on careers that bring them to the dizzying heights of fame and eventual self-destruction. The three characters are brought together by a fictional play called Hit The Sky. Anne Welles recently arrives from New [...]
Woman leaves mother to die in ‘litres’ of body waste
A woman in Melbourne, Australia has been charged with negligence after she allowed her own mother to die in horrendous conditions.
Yesterday Melbourne Magistrates’ Court heard how 72 year old Kateryna Pyrczak was discovered by paramedics lying in “litres” of her own excrement on the floor of her kitchen last November 10th. Mrs Pyrczak’s legs and [...]
Woman Awakened By Leaking Corpse
A Modesto woman had to move out of her apartment when something horrible happened to her neighbor.
Her upstairs neighbor died and no one knew for days… until she experienced it firsthand.
“It’s been a total nightmare,” says Sylvia Pena, Modesto resident.
What happened to Sylvia was very real.
“I was sleeping on the couch… I was awakened by [...]
