I dreamed a Dream  Les Miserables

Once upon a time in the not too distant past I was an insatiable theater goer.  I grew up in a family that felt the same way.  I am not sure how old I was when my parents took me to see my first Broadway show.  Living on Long Island, Broadway was a mere forty five minute train ride on the Long Island Railroad. After seeing that very first show, I had Broadway fever and every year my parents asked me what I wanted for my birthday and every year the answer was to see a Broadway show.  In fact, the best birthday present I ever had was from my husband.  We went to New York for a three day weekend and we saw Five shows. In addition to seeing the amazing Phantom of the Opera, we caught the last performance of Present Laughter with Frank Langella.  At the end of the performance he actually come out on stage and had a discussion with the audience.  A DELIGHT to listen to him talk!

Unfortunately, in recent years I have not been to the theater as much as I would have liked and one of the shows that I actually have never seen live is Les Miz.  I heard a gasp from many of you as you read that last sentence but alas it is true.  And believe me I find it hard to believe myself.  After all Les Miz played on Broadway for an astounding 6,680 over ten years. Where the heck was I and what was I thinking.  So to right this awful wrong I will be one of the millions of people who will be racing to the theater to see the movie version.  The cast alone is reason to see it.  So as many of you out there might be thinking, I am going to try to be one of the millions that go to see it on Christmas Day.  My family and I are pumped up and ready!

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

 

 

Things are not always how they seem.  A couple is celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary.  From the outside they look to be a perfect couple, both good looking, living in a big house etc etc.  But the wife disappears on their anniversary and things don’t look too good for the husband because as it turns out he is not a stellar husband. 

Of course suspicion falls on him immediately and of course he proclaims his innocence.  The question. is he just a crappy husband and not a killer or is he a crappy husband and the killer? And if he is not the killer than who is?  This is an interesting mystery.

Notorious Nineteen  by Janet Evanovich

It’s the holiday season.  I have a lot on my plate.  With all the black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping to do it was very hard to squeeze in something too heavy. After all who can pass up on some great retail therapy.

Along comes Janet Evanovich with her nineteenth Stephanie Plum novel. The usual cast of characters are in it, the two hunkie donkeys Ranger and Morelli, Lula and of course Stephanie herself.

 What would a Stephanie Plum story be without Stephanies's car getting blown up and true to form on page 8 her clunker gets consumed by a fireball, caught in the cross fire of the bad guys.  

Stephanie once again is strapped for cash and her cousin Vinnie’s bail bond agency comes through by assigning Stephanie to find this guy Geoffrey Cubbin  who is charged with embezzling five million dollars from Cranberry Manor an assisted living facility.  My Home Health buddies I am sure know how devastating this would be to many of their patients.  Shame on you Geoffrey with a G not a J.

Anyway he got sick in the middle of the night, went to the ER, had his appendix removed and when his wife showed up to take him home he had vanished.  Puff, gone.  Vinnie put up a lot of money for this guy and if he doesn’t show up for court will lose it.  Stephanie has her assignment find Geoffrey.