Word: hauntedness
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In a city still haunted by the outcome of Game Six of the 1986 World Series, Rose audaciously invoked the name of Bill Buckner. I had to regard his subsequent fate--getting Tombstoned by Kane, a possible premonition of Sunday's events--as sweet comeuppance for his cheekiness. Comeuppance, too...
The one-eyed man appears to be talking about chess. "In order to kill your enemies you should know how to move your pawns," says Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia. But his thoughts are really on his kind of politics. There are no political opponents, only enemies to be...
It falls to Keelin to pursue Aisling who has been only a series of postcards from exotic places since she left home. The novel begins as a generational saga in Ireland, delineating a long and suitably gothic history. In this generation, as in many Irish families, all of the siblings...
Two women, Cindy and Mary; two lives in turmoil because of adoption laws written in another era. Before the late '60s, states thought they were doing birth mothers a favor by confining their identities to dusty registrars' books. At the time, only "bad" girls got pregnant out of wedlock, and...
Its characters are stylized and predictable, from her distant father and elegant mother to the Swedish personal trainer named Greta. Her parents have all the standard trappings of wealth: mansion in Connecticut, Florida beach house, Aspen condo. Even the psychological background created through carefully spliced-in childhood flashbacks is contrived...