Kirill Trukhin Trukhin itibaren Makhdum Pur, Uttar Pradesh 227816, Hindistan itibaren Makhdum Pur, Uttar Pradesh 227816, Hindistan

Excellent analysis of the vital importance of time tracking for business. The book is ground breaking in its approach to this under researched field.

Full disclosure - I am a Robert B Parker fanatic. His Hemingwayesque style of writing is the key to the revealing of 'human nature truths' that is Parker's hallmark. So, this is one of two books he has written for middle school/high school kids. Clearly, this is Parker's image of the 'birth' of his iconic Spenser and Susan Silverman characters - i.e. what they would have been like as 9th graders. Wise beyond their years, open to listening to adult mentors, learning how to be what they grow up to be. In fact, the whole novel's theme is to teach kids what it means to be a mature adult. Parker sets it in the context of boxing lessons (especially the mental discipline aspect of boxing), age old high school tensions between normal people and uber jock of the school, and covert criminal activities of public figures. What I liked was that Parker imparted the lessons without dumbing it down. He 'preaches' through the persona of the boxing teacher, and with the dialogue allows the kids to divine the correct conclusions. It's very nice to see kids thinking about important stuff, and Parker portrays it as a skill that's useful, good, and worth picking up. The teacher and the kids have real conversations, albeit in a Parker spare style. It works wonderfully. One line in the book, which I think functions as encouragement to teens - something like "they are learning how to be men and women." So it tells them that they are not yet there, but they are on the track at least. If a teen kid picks this book up and moves on to the Spenser novels, he/she will learn a whole lot about what true love and respect for another person looks like, especially if that kid reads nothing else but Parker's dedications to his wife, Joan. Robert B. Parker rules.

LA Dt. Frank Bousch won’t accept the easy answer after he discovers the skeleton of a young boy murdered many years ago. A nascent love is killed, and he almost gets fired for refusing to help PIO, but he solves the case in the end, the killer being the same man involved in his love’s death. A guilty pleasure. Completely lacking character development, but fun and fast. Just when you think it will end, he throws you another curve.

I didn't know what to think of this book. For the longest time i did not want to read it, and I'm not sure as if this was because that this would there for end the harry potter saga witch has over taken my life for the past seven years or if i didn't think i would want to just read it because i wasn't sure if i would like it. I ordered it in braille, however, didn't read it there. I then ordered an audio version, er, should say i obtained an audio version of this book and think it's a wonderful book. I hope to see more works from this author, and hope maybe she will start another book series?

I have children with autism and found the thinking process accurate and fascinating. Great job with that!

Worth the time to read, but certainly not a classic. What bothered me most were to uncountable obscure coincidences. Progressively less believable. Still planning on reading the third book in the series.