This isn’t Gary Wright’s 1975 chart-topping, saccharin sweet single “Dream Weaver.” This is Mark Bogner’s “The Dreamweaver,” and it’s what happens when people use special powers for nefarious purposes after their patriotic usefulness ends.
It is Jane Austen’s 250th Birthday this year. Celebrations occurred all over England from Bath to the gardens of Austen’s own home.
Like-minded fans of Jane Austen’s works gathered from all over the world to celebrate an author whose novels still speak to readers today over two centuries after her death. Austen has cemented her legacy amongst generations of readers and I am amongst them.
I don’t know James Patterson. I know of him, I know of his work, but I don’t know his work. I do know that I love Michael Crichton, and I haven’t found a book of his that I didn’t fall in love with.
Authors Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack have captured the heart of Aaron Sorkin’s goal to have the first few seasons of The West Wing serve as a “love letter to public service.” They should know it well. Fitzgerald and McCormack portrayed Carol Fitzpatrick and Kate Harper, respectively, in the watershed political drama and released “What’s Next” in 2024.
This book may be the first in a long line of others to come. It fulfills its subtitle and then some, which is appropriately length as “A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service.”