White-collar Crime Gets More Outrageous

I Cannot Find Words To Express The Depth Of My Loss Or Outrage About What's Happening To This Country. I Don't Know If I Can Find The Words For It, But If This Country Ever Recovers, It Will Not Be In My Lifetime. If I Were Elected President, The First Thing I Would Do Would Be To Set Up A Department Of Restoring The Bill Of Rights. I Would Have 10,000 People Working There.

There Is No Frigate Like A Book And No Harbor Like A Library, Where Those Who Love Books But Can't Afford Their Own Complete Collections, Or Those Who Need A Computer, Or Kids Who Need A Safe Place To Read After School, Or Moms With Toddlers Who Want Their Babies To Learn To Read, Can All Come Together And Share In A Great Community Resource.

These Events Are Swirling Around Them. In The White Community, People Felt Like They Had No Control Over Their Neighborhoods, Their Destiny. In The Black Community, Centuries Of Government And Economic Forces Were Pushing On Them. I Went In With A Kind Of Arrogance, Maybe, That Came From Living In A Very Intellectual Family, And I Left Knowing That There Was A Lot About The Way People Lived That I Didn't Know About.

People Have Less Privacy And Are Crammed Together In Cities, But In The Wide Open Spaces They Secretly Keep Tabs On Each Other A Lot More

I'm Jealous Of Everyone Discovering Lovesey And Diamond For The First Time-you Have A Wonderful Backlist To Catch Up On. Me, All I Can Do Is Wait For The Next Book.