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Nigella Christmas: Food, Family, Friends, Festivities
Nigella Lawson, Lis Parsons
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause
Judy Norsigian, Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Vivian Pinn

Troubling a Star: The Austin Family Chronicles, Book 5

Troubling a Star  - Madeleine L'Engle It's a book by Madeleine L'Engle. How bad could that be? Well, um, actually? Pretty bad. Spectacularly, teeth-grindingly bad. The plot's clunky. No, the plot's been recycled so many times that one can faintly see all the other stories below, like a palimpsest. The characters, many of whom we are supposed to know, are not themselves. None of the Austins are recognizable. Even worse, a major character is introduced as a long-time patient of Dr. Austin's, as well as Adam Eddington's beloved aunt- how did those salient facts never get mentioned before? That's just sloppy.The whole book feels cobbled together, half-assed, phoned in. Even the drugs don't get L'Engle all riled up this time, it's more ho-hum, drugs, yeah, whatever. The bad guys are silly, the good guys are equally silly. The character development is nearly absent in the secondary characters. It was difficult to read this, especially hard on the heels of the magnificent A Ring of Endless Light. I don't recommend it, not even for Austin completists.