Broken

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What I love most about her comedic essays (and this is just in their written form) is that they are the weirdest stories where the beginning of the chapter can leave you saying "Huh? Broken του Don Winslow,έξι υπέροχα διηγήματα με ανθρώπους του νόμου που δοκιμάστηκαν οι αντοχές τους και ανταπεξήλθαν με αμφιλεγόμενο τρόπο. Yet others like Paradise have a more laid back SoCal feel so that one feels like you’re talking to a surfer at a beach party. I loved both parts of the book equally, though the writing style and some of the chapters felt repetitive towards the end of the book. So they feel duty-bound to save their erstwhile partners in the proposed business venture, with markedly mixed results.

Thank you to the author, NetGalley and Henry Holt and Co for my advanced copy in exchange for my always-honest review and making it almost worth losing the lady bit so I could laugh over this book (no, not really. What Winslow does here though is he revisits some of his greatest hits of the past as he throws on the gnarly surfers of the Dawn Patrol and even an aging Neal Carey from several of Winslow's earlier novels. There’s also a feeling that this a retrospective of Winslow’s career with most of the surviving major characters from his previous books showing up throughout the stories. It has been sitting on my currently reading shelf ever since, because I kept meaning to go back and read it a second time when my life had settled down a bit.How incredibly cool is it for Don Winslow to revive those unforgettable characters from past books like Bobby Z, Ben, Chon, O and Boone Daniels and the Dawn Patrol. Dal Centro America, attraverso il Messico, un viaggio allucinante, non dissimile da quello di chi attraversa Sahara e Mediterraneo, o sulle altre tratte del mare nostrum, un viaggio pericoloso: spesso chi arriva alla mèta ha perso lungo il percorso così tanto da non avere più la forza di andare avanti. Every action takes such work … as if living with mental illness is like waking to a different disability each day. Don always says he’s done with that three thousand one hundred and forty five kilometre stretch of land but like the mob, just when he thinks he’s finished, it pulls him back in.

I still have a backlog of Winslow books to catch up on, and those are something I very much look forward to during these uncertain times.Sunset is a story that was written to include Winslow's "Dawn Patrol" characters like Boone Daniels.

This is a great book of novellas that show off his range with characters, emotions, and story lines. Someone once told me that the difference between introverts and extroverts is that introverts recharge by being alone (like any normal person) and extroverts recharge by being with others (like vampires). The Ben and Chon and O story had them all but it was so totally Chon's story, he got to shine in that one and I loved the ending, really caught me by surprise.

She has such a good sense of the absurd, and she never misses an opportunity to take you with her on a ride through her wonderfully skewed reality. One example: a character used a slur for a group of people and then in retelling this brilliant “joke” to someone who belongs to said group, uses the non-offensive version of the word (to prove they’re a good person) “even though it was less funny that way”. The San Diego Zoo brings back that canny detective and injects a bit of humor cause the perp is a chimpanzee with a gun, literally, wandering through Balboa Park.