As someone who loves New York City, I anxiously await every Davis novel. This one celebrates Radio City Music Hall and the Rockettes. In 1956, Marion Brooks is passionate about dance but headed for a conventional marriage. On a lark she auditions for the Rockettes and is selected. But NYC is in a turmoil because of the Big Apple Bomber and the police inability to find him. Enter psychologist Dr. Peter Griggs who is among the first to suggest that certain clues can lead to the kind of criminal profiling that might solve this crime. Thirty-six years later, Marion returns to the theater for a celebration of the Rockettes' 60th birthday and so much more. A wonderful mash of history and mystery.
Friday, August 18, 2023
Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King
This sat on my shelf for years but watching The Medici series on Netflix finally inspired me to read it. I am sure that King simplified the math and engineering, which is the book's focus, but still it mystifies me that with so few tools such magnificent architecture was possible. AND why now, with access to machinery even the genius Brunelleschi couldn't imagine, we build such sterile boxes (yeah I know energy, efficiency, inability to terrorize the masses to pay for things...). This is a great slice of Renaissance history that celebrates the best minds of the time and gives hope that intelligence is still a human quality.
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