How I, Nicky Flynn, Finally Get a Life (and a Dog) Review

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How I, Nicky Flynn, Finally Get a Life (and a Dog) ReviewHow I, Nicky Flynn Amulet Books, 2010, 272 pgs., [...]
Art Corriveau ISBN 0810982986
Have you ever known anybody with a guide dog? Well Nicky Flynn is the owner of a former guide dog Reggie. Nicky is an eleven-year old boy. Nicky lives with his mom in Boston, MA. Nicky's parents are divorced and they got a divorce over a [...] bottle of French mustard. It sounds crazy, right? Nicky's dad never spends time with him it's a different excuse every weekend.
When Nicky's mom brings Reggie home from the shelter Nicky goes ballistic. His mom says "You have always wanted a dog and now you have one." Nicky's parents are divorced and every time Nicky has plans with his dad his dad cancels. One night when Reggie attacks Nicky's mom she says "I will be getting animal control out here tomorrow morning." That is the night of the great escape. It takes one mistake to miss up you whole life. Reggie didn't attack Nicky's mom for no reason. She was going to give Nicky a high-5 and Reggie doesn't like it when someone puts their hand up to Nicky. Nicky and Reggie go on a journey they won't forget.
I love the way Art Corriveau writes this book. He does different headings instead of chapters like Wednesday night, the Holke's office. Art writes in great detail and is an amazing author. Art gives many details about the plot, setting, and characters.
I was shocked while reading How I (Nicky Flynn) Finally get a Life (and a dog). There are many twists and turns in this crazy book. It is breathe taking and an adventure of a lifetime
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Judge Sentences: Tales from the Bench Review

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Judge Sentences: Tales from the Bench ReviewI began to read this book as soon as it arrived, planning to complete each section as time allowed. Didn't happen! I read the entire book from start to finish in one setting. How to describe it? Human, humane, funny, and poignant, and entirely believable. The author is a concerned and loving individual as he tries to make sense and make judgements in an imperfect setting with limited (or self-serving) information from both sides. His humor is subtle, and the sad stories don't beat you over the head with their pathos, though we readily see the human tragedy that presents itself each day in the courtroom. There is much to learn from Judge Meagher's fine stories.Judge Sentences: Tales from the Bench Overview

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Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists Review

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Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists Review"The first version of the story you hear is always wrong." Although movies makes stealing art look upper crust, Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg prove time and again that art thievery is generally low class crooks looking to make a buck. They aren't interested in the art, it's just that art museums, unlike a bank, are not secure and therefore make stealing a Rembrandt much easier than stealing a million dollars.
That makes it a double crime because the thieves have so little understanding of the masterpiece they are making off with that they are willing to cut it from its frame, roll it up and stash it under beds and behind sofas. Not a good way to deal with four and five hundred year old masterpieces! And why Rembrandts? Why not Titian or Fra Angelico? It is simply that most people are familiar with the name Rembrandt as a fine artist.
But any semi intelligent person would realize the difficulty of reselling such obvious well known works of art. The pieces are generally recovered very quickly and if not a generation will go by before they are recovered.
I was intrigued to read of the problem with etchings. It has never occurred to me but it makes sense, because an etching can be reprinted over and over again, a new print of a Rembrandt etching can easily be inserted into a collection to replace a stolen one. The difference can sometimes be seen easily but not necessarily. The four hundred year old hand-made paper is usually the give away.
I appreciated these authors' interesting details about the art itself, its history and its importance along with the art crime. I had to google Portrait of a Young Girl Wearing a Gold-Trimmed Cloak. A Boston art dealer, Robert C. Vose, visited a monastery in Hollywood Hills to view and appraise their collection. He found most to be fakes with the exception of Rembrandts' Young Girl Wearing a Gold Trimmed Cloak. He bought it for $100,000 and sold it quickly for $125,000. It was then loaned to the Museum of Fine Arts and was stolen in 1975.
The account that made me groan aloud were the 239 items, works of art by Rembrandt, Watteau, Boucher and Peter Brueghel, Greek pottery, medieval crossbow and a Roman bugle. Stéphane Breitwieser was finally caught in 2001 whereupon his mother began cutting and destroying both art and frame, then put the canvas in the garbage disposal, she threw vases, jewelry, statuettes into a canal. By the time police raided the house there was virtually not one thing left! Nothing! 1.5 billion dollars worth of amazing art and relics was gone forever. Breitwieser spent two years in jail.
And then there is the painting by Rembrandt, Saskia at Her Bath, stolen from a home never to return. It was burned! Argh!!!
I grew up in Massachusetts and was fascinated to read of the Worcester museum theft, thefts from the Museum of Fine Art and of course the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum theft. It is an eerie sight to see the vacant frame still hanging in the museum where The Storm on the Sea of Galilee and A Lady and Gentleman in Black used to hang.
Having a compiled list at the back of the book is sobering.
This book was so interesting because of the historical details that accompanied the pieces of art that were stolen.Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists Overview

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Hitman: The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulger's Enforcer and the Most Feared Gangster in the Underworld Review

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Hitman: The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulger's Enforcer and the Most Feared Gangster in the Underworld ReviewAn ambitious book, basically a history of organized crime in Boston during the 20th century & beyond, mainly (but not exclusively) as seen through the eyes of the notorious Jimmy "Whitey" Bulger's murderous enforcer, Johnny Martarano. Martarano is obviously charming, almost charismatic company & tries to make a strong case that the people he killed eminently deserved it, but he does self-servingly avoid the fact that he also took out several innocent bystanders along the way. It IS sort of jaw-dropping that the feds let him out on the steets again after he admitted killing 20 people. (Although God knows how many there actually were.) But the feds were willing to pretty much let that go if they could get him to testify against Whitey, His partner-in-crime Stevie Flemmi, & most important, the deeply-dirty-&-corrupt-to-the-bone, FBI Agent John "Zip" Connolly. The murders of countless fairly low-level hoods do tend to blur after awhile at midpoint in the book, but things pick up at the end, as (relatively) clean feds close in to round up this pack of sociopaths/psychopaths. Well worth a thorough read.Hitman: The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulger's Enforcer and the Most Feared Gangster in the Underworld Overview

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