Jack Reacher

Everything Jack Reacher thought he knew is collapsing around him. In the story, The Enemy, Jack Reacher is a military investigator who is stationed in the U.S during the Cold War. After a general dies of a heart attack Jack is sent to investigate. Later he finds the General’s wife dead of homicide. On top of it all, A 16 year army veteran was murdered under Jack’s nose, in the Military base. Just when he didn’t think it could get any odder, Reacher’s boss accused him of murdering the veteran,…

The ‘Mission: Impossible’ franchise recently celebrated its nineteenth birthday, making this franchise almost of legal drinking age, let that sink in. This franchise has been around for almost five more years than the ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise, and yet it’s still managing to be just an incredulous and energetic as anything to ever come out of that franchise. I’m not at all dissing the ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise, it just pumped out its seventh installment and still managed to thrill me to my…

Cincinnati is a series of three romantic suspense novels written by the prolific American author Karen Rose. The first novel in the Cincinnati series that also happens to be the sixteenth novel in her romantic suspense series of novels is the 2014 published “Closer Than You Think”. Just like all her other novels, the Cincinnati series of novels is a universe based series that takes place in Cincinnati Ohio. In addition to being set in the same universe, the novels also have connections in theme…

When one takes a photograph, they want use to know the most possible from just a snap. A photograph isn 't just a photo they take; within the photo it tells a story and has a mean from the way the photo is taken. Leaving now in the Twenty-First Century a photo means a lot then when it had first came out. The reason that its more manful now is because since we had photography now for a long period of time, we want to keep our photos for a long time to remember those days one had. Not as when it…

Germany at one point was well gifted in the art of film making. In the 1920’s German expressionism was wildly popular and inspired many filmmakers however, Germany hit a creative cinematic drought during the war and became very idle after. It was in late 1960’s that the New German Cinema movement began to get its footing. This movement was inspired by the French New Wave, causing young directors to shun the old film making ways and bring new life to the film industry. These films were normally…

The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The biographer Richard Cordell notes that the book was influenced by Maugham's study of science and his work as a houseman at St Thomas' Hospital. The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 – March 1925). Beginning in May 1925, it was serialised…