BOOK: The Baslicato by Carol Ann Kauffman

 

When Dr. Brook Wilson agreed to take on celebrity Italian race car driver Jason Maxwell, known as"The Baslicato," as her patient, little did she realize their relationship would turn her calm, pleasant, well-ordered life upside down, sending her off on dangerous adventures in southern Italy and northern Ohio. 

As she prepares him for his big race, she must deal with his demented wife while driving her boyfriend, Dr, Garrett MacEgan, into acts of criminal desperation in a attempt to hold on to her.

When tall, handsome British actor Richard MacKenzie wakes up in the hospital after an accident, he discovers he's a short Italian race car driver named Jason Maxwell, known as THE BASLICATO. 

And somebody's trying to kill him.

       Amazon Buy Link: https://www.amazon.com/BASLICATO-Time-After-ebook/dp/B0087GA6VC

Dear Gentle Readers,

Of all the books I've written, this one is my relatives' favorite. My father was born in Basilicata Province. He came to America as a small child in the early 1900's. The names and personalities of many of our relatives appear in this book. Uncle Joe, for one, was a real person and a real character. 

The first title for this book was The Basilicato. My editor encouraged me to change it. (The inhabitants of the region are referred to as Basilicatesi, or more historically correct Lucanians or Lucanti.) 

The title was confusing. Many people referred to it as 'your book about a big church'. Maybe I should've listened to my editor, but I did not. The only thing I did was change the spelling so it did not look so much like Basilica.

Happy reading.

Carol 

   

TV TIME: The Protector (Netflix)

 

After a quiet run on some more obscure channel , the Protector has seen a big rise in popularity the first half of 2024 on Netflix. These are four seasons. 

A son who has started and failed numerous businesses tries to find his niche in life in modern Istanbul. 

He discovers quite by accident that is the one chosen to protect a secret society from a powerful immortal enemy. Starts a little slow. But stay with it. 

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BOOK REVIEW: Shadow Games by Jane Firebaugh

Prejudice. If you have never experienced it, you can’t understand it. You do not get it. You don’t feel the hatred, the all-consuming dislike because of your skin color, religion, nationality, or gender.

Shadows Games by Jane Firebaugh examines prejudice in this gripping story of a beautiful, successful surgeon. Hannah is blindsided by a vicious attacker who comes after her like the Terminator. Nothing seems to stop him.

I could not put this book down. It felt so real I had to remind myself this was fiction. Read this book.

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Shadow+Games+by+Jane+Firebaugh&i=digital-text&crid=2C8LBA18Y2UYX

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ART: Old Master Francisco Josè De Goya

Goya. Francisco José De Goya. Yes, I’d hear of him. Yes, I knew he was an old famous artist. But that was about it… until I viewed the Old Masters Exhibit at the beautiful Butler Institute of Art in Youngstown, Ohio. 

Goya was one complicated dude. He endured the horrors of war at a very early age. During the French Revolution, he witnessed people being hanged, burned, and guillotined. He saw mental patients tortured. Surely, that played a part in his dark and bizarre style of drawing.

Francisco José De Goya was a renowned printmaker and portrait artist. It is said he remained in good graces with whichever group that came into power because of his terrific portrait skills, accenting the models best features, almost to a fault. Everybody looked better in a Goya portrait than in real life. 

These photos I took at the Butler Exhibit unfortunately do not show those favorable, alluring portrait skills. These are dark and bizarre. 

Goya suffered from an autoimmune disease that left him deaf at an early age. He also had syphyllis. He had seven or eight children, depending on what I read. All but one died in early childhood. 

There is a rumor he left instructions to have his head severed before burial. He wish to have his head buried in Madrid next to the body of the thirteenth Duchess of Alba, whom he fell in love with while painting her portrait. There is no proof of this. Still… his head is missing. 

 

SCHEDULE: October 14-18, 2024

 

Monday, October 14 - ART:

The Old Masters

Francisco José De Goya

Tuesday, October 15 - BOOK REVIEW:

Shadow Games

By Jane Firebaugh

Wednesday, October 16 - INTERVIEW:

Personal Growth Author

Vince Guaglione

Thursday, October 17 - TV TIME:

The Protector

Friday, October 18 - BOOK:

The Baslicato

A Time After Time Novel

By Carol Ann Kauffman

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