1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:11,453 Speaker 1: from News Talks. 3 00:00:11,453 --> 00:00:14,453 Speaker 2: There'd be twenty one to twelve on Newstalks. There'd be 4 00:00:14,533 --> 00:00:17,013 Speaker 2: Katherine Rains as our book reviewer. She gives us two 5 00:00:17,253 --> 00:00:19,893 Speaker 2: top recommendations every weekend, and she's with us. Now. 6 00:00:19,973 --> 00:00:21,893 Speaker 3: Hey Catherine, good morning Jack. 7 00:00:22,213 --> 00:00:24,693 Speaker 2: Let's start off with your first book for this week. 8 00:00:24,693 --> 00:00:28,093 Speaker 2: Tell us about Summer Island by Kristin Hannah. 9 00:00:28,133 --> 00:00:30,453 Speaker 3: So this is the story of Nora and her thirty 10 00:00:30,493 --> 00:00:32,813 Speaker 3: four year old daughter Ruby, and they're really at odds 11 00:00:32,813 --> 00:00:36,213 Speaker 3: with each other. Nora left her husband years before and 12 00:00:36,253 --> 00:00:38,973 Speaker 3: her teenage daughters as they were then, Ruby and Caroline, 13 00:00:39,093 --> 00:00:41,733 Speaker 3: and she's now this famous talk show host who gives 14 00:00:42,013 --> 00:00:45,373 Speaker 3: lots of advice to others. And Ruby herself is now 15 00:00:45,413 --> 00:00:48,173 Speaker 3: a comedian and she deeply resents her mother, and a 16 00:00:48,173 --> 00:00:50,573 Speaker 3: lot of her humor as a comedian is around her 17 00:00:50,653 --> 00:00:53,253 Speaker 3: mum and those things that went on with her. And 18 00:00:53,293 --> 00:00:54,933 Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, Laura gets caught in this 19 00:00:55,053 --> 00:00:58,613 Speaker 3: public scandal, and Ruby's given the opportunity to write this 20 00:00:58,773 --> 00:01:02,813 Speaker 3: tallel book about her mother that will really almost guarantee 21 00:01:02,893 --> 00:01:05,813 Speaker 3: to launch her career, and so she heads home to 22 00:01:05,853 --> 00:01:08,773 Speaker 3: spend some time with Nora at their family summer home 23 00:01:09,173 --> 00:01:11,253 Speaker 3: and they start to revisit old memories, and then she 24 00:01:11,253 --> 00:01:14,533 Speaker 3: actually really starts to understand her mother's choices and more 25 00:01:14,573 --> 00:01:17,253 Speaker 3: broadly understand some of the choices that she's made in life. 26 00:01:17,893 --> 00:01:20,733 Speaker 3: And the book mainly focuses on their character of Ruby, 27 00:01:20,773 --> 00:01:24,973 Speaker 3: and she's quite feisty and very vocal and occasionally completely 28 00:01:25,013 --> 00:01:28,813 Speaker 3: wrong in her assumptions, and she kind of slowly finds 29 00:01:28,813 --> 00:01:32,373 Speaker 3: herself listening to her mother's real history and what happened 30 00:01:32,373 --> 00:01:34,653 Speaker 3: in their lives and start to manage to find a 31 00:01:34,653 --> 00:01:37,893 Speaker 3: connection with her mum and start to hew their relationship 32 00:01:37,893 --> 00:01:40,413 Speaker 3: a little and let go of her resentment. And it's 33 00:01:40,493 --> 00:01:43,213 Speaker 3: lots of messages about family and love and forgiveness and 34 00:01:43,213 --> 00:01:45,693 Speaker 3: redemption and kind of shows how easy it is to 35 00:01:45,773 --> 00:01:49,653 Speaker 3: judge someone else's choices until you know the complete story. Yeah, 36 00:01:49,813 --> 00:01:51,333 Speaker 3: good afternoon, Sunday afternoon. 37 00:01:51,373 --> 00:01:54,693 Speaker 2: Readyah, very good. There's Summer Island by Kristin Hannah. You've 38 00:01:54,733 --> 00:01:57,493 Speaker 2: also read Red Star Down by Dbie John. 39 00:01:58,413 --> 00:02:02,493 Speaker 3: So this is a really gripping thriller and heads into 40 00:02:02,533 --> 00:02:06,653 Speaker 3: the world of politics and espionage and deception and is 41 00:02:06,693 --> 00:02:09,733 Speaker 3: on actually a period in very recent history, so it's 42 00:02:09,773 --> 00:02:13,493 Speaker 3: loosely bet set around real events, and so it starts 43 00:02:13,493 --> 00:02:17,533 Speaker 3: in twenty seventeen when President Trump first rose to power, 44 00:02:18,013 --> 00:02:20,693 Speaker 3: and there's three protagonists involved. So there's Jenna, who's a 45 00:02:21,653 --> 00:02:26,053 Speaker 3: CIA officer, Losher who's a Moscow student who has the 46 00:02:26,133 --> 00:02:30,893 Speaker 3: audacity to confront Vladimir Putin on live TV and completely 47 00:02:30,973 --> 00:02:34,293 Speaker 3: incensors the Russian leader. And then there's Eric who's a 48 00:02:34,453 --> 00:02:38,613 Speaker 3: North Korean spy spy and he has the era of 49 00:02:38,653 --> 00:02:42,053 Speaker 3: President Trump almost he's the Special Advisor on East Asia, 50 00:02:42,093 --> 00:02:45,413 Speaker 3: and he's a very dangerous individual. And the story kicks 51 00:02:45,413 --> 00:02:48,213 Speaker 3: off with a series of explosive global events. A Korean 52 00:02:48,253 --> 00:02:51,853 Speaker 3: man is poisoned in Malaysia, a Russian intelligence officer is 53 00:02:51,893 --> 00:02:55,133 Speaker 3: assassinated in Washington, and a real estate mogul becomes the 54 00:02:55,133 --> 00:02:58,613 Speaker 3: forty fifth US president, And these kind of incidents set 55 00:02:58,613 --> 00:03:02,133 Speaker 3: this stage for this conspiracy and global stability, and it 56 00:03:02,173 --> 00:03:05,413 Speaker 3: has this very believable plot line and lots of different 57 00:03:05,413 --> 00:03:08,653 Speaker 3: places and countries, and this portrayal of world leaders who've 58 00:03:08,693 --> 00:03:12,093 Speaker 3: got their own agendas and self serving, lots of great 59 00:03:12,173 --> 00:03:16,053 Speaker 3: characters that are completely complex and believable, particularly those operatives 60 00:03:16,173 --> 00:03:20,173 Speaker 3: navigating some very moral, great areas, and there's some great 61 00:03:20,533 --> 00:03:23,373 Speaker 3: moments in the story and lots of suspense to this 62 00:03:23,973 --> 00:03:26,253 Speaker 3: at tension and just really wants to make you know 63 00:03:26,293 --> 00:03:28,733 Speaker 3: what happened next. And so if you're a fan of 64 00:03:29,213 --> 00:03:32,413 Speaker 3: spy and espinage strillage, then I highly recommend this one. 65 00:03:33,133 --> 00:03:35,173 Speaker 2: Fantastic. That really does sound like a bit of me. 66 00:03:35,293 --> 00:03:37,293 Speaker 2: Did you see is it? I think earlier this week 67 00:03:37,373 --> 00:03:42,173 Speaker 2: or last week? Did you ever like Martin Cruz Smith's Box? Yes, yeah, 68 00:03:42,413 --> 00:03:44,573 Speaker 2: I was sad to I think he lived a pretty 69 00:03:44,573 --> 00:03:46,813 Speaker 2: good life. I think he was in his late eighties, 70 00:03:46,853 --> 00:03:49,213 Speaker 2: but I was. I got kind of hooked on the 71 00:03:49,333 --> 00:03:53,213 Speaker 2: Arcadi Renko stories years ago, speaking of you know, thrillers 72 00:03:53,213 --> 00:03:57,173 Speaker 2: and mysteries set in Russia. You know I love those. Yeah, 73 00:03:57,253 --> 00:04:00,653 Speaker 2: you know Gawky Park and the myriad books that followed 74 00:04:00,653 --> 00:04:03,373 Speaker 2: thereafter that he penned. So yeah, that was that was 75 00:04:03,413 --> 00:04:05,293 Speaker 2: sad news. But this sounds like a bit of me 76 00:04:05,333 --> 00:04:07,773 Speaker 2: as well. So that's read Start Down by dB John. 77 00:04:07,973 --> 00:04:10,853 Speaker 2: Summer Island by Kristin Hannah was Catherine's first book. Katherine, 78 00:04:11,813 --> 00:04:14,813 Speaker 2: please don't talk to anyone else today. Go and get 79 00:04:14,853 --> 00:04:18,173 Speaker 2: yourself five or six good lemons, get yourself some nice 80 00:04:18,213 --> 00:04:20,893 Speaker 2: Manuka honey, brew yourself a nice wee hot drink, and 81 00:04:20,893 --> 00:04:23,613 Speaker 2: curl up on the couch and we will catch again 82 00:04:23,693 --> 00:04:28,653 Speaker 2: very soon. Those books will be on the News Talks website. 83 00:04:27,573 --> 00:04:30,653 Speaker 1: For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. Listen live 84 00:04:30,733 --> 00:04:33,573 Speaker 1: to News Talks ed B from nine am Saturday, or 85 00:04:33,653 --> 00:04:35,533 Speaker 1: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.