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Book Reviews (Listed Alphabetically by Title)

Circe: Recap & Summary

Note that these headers (The Beginning, Glaucos, Aiaia, etc.) are not in the book. The Beginning Chapters 1 – 3. Circe is the daughter of Helios (a Titan and Sun God) and Perse (Oceanid Naiad/Water Nymph). She is a god, but she is less beautiful and lacks the powers of her siblings, Perses, Pasiphaë, and …

The Secrets We Kept: Recap & Summary

Prologue The Typists. The book introduces the Typists, women who work in the Soviet Russia Division of the CIA as typists and secretaries, typing up memos, reports, dictations and the like. Chapter 1 (East, 1949 – 1950) The Muse. Olga Vsevolodovna Ivinskaya is arrested and taken to Lubyanka, a Moscow prison, due to her affair …

Ninth House: Recap & Summary

Prologue – Chapter 4 Galaxy “Alex” Stern is at Yale on scholarship. She is part of House Lethe (the “Ninth House“), which was founded in 1898 to monitor certain secret societies on campus. Alex was given her scholarship because she has the ability to see “Greys” (ghosts), while others need a special elixir (the “Orozcerio”) …

Catch and Kill: Key Ideas & Summary

Prologue The prologue introduces two private investigators, Igor Ostrovsky (Ukranian) and Roman Khaykin (Russian). Part I: Poison Valley (Chapters 1 – 13) Part I discusses Farrow’s initial reporting on the Weinstein story as an NBC investigative reporter, starting with Rose McGowan’s story. As Farrow’s research leads to real evidence in the form of a recording …

The Institute: Recap & Summary

Part I: The Night Knocker Tim Jamieson is a divorcee and ex-Sarasota officer who was let go over an accident regarding reckless discharge of a weapon. He’s headed to New York for a security gig, but ends up taking $2,000 cash in exchange for his overbooked flight and hitchhike there. In DuPray, South Carolina, he …