Sage's Eyes; A Life in Parts; Quarry in the Black

First off, some mindless fluff from V. C. Andrews. For some reason online somewhere it said that "Sage's Eyes" was related in some way to FITA. Why I believe anything I read on the internet is a mystery :) It had nothing to do with Flowers, but it was still pretty good. Sage's parents have never hidden the fact that she is adopted from her. They are super overprotective of her, and at sixteen Sage is feeling very stifled. It's hard for her to make friends since she can't go to parties or sleep over or even go shopping with a group of friends. A new boy named Summer Dante transfers to Sage's school, and all the girls are gaga over him, apparently he's gorgeous (not the way the author described, but that's just me). Summer likes Sage, though, and starts pushing her to break her parents' stringent rules to see him.

I remember seeing Bryan Cranston on the X-Files way back when, and I loved "Malcolm in the Middle". He was so funny on that. I was very surprised at him in "Breaking Bad". I thought he did a marvelous job and what a different character from Hal! His bio was a quick read, and interesting. He grew up in So Cal, the child of two actors. He however planned to be a police officer, he went to school to study criminal justice. After a cross country motorcycle trip with his older brother, however, he had an epiphany and decided he didn't want to spend his life doing something he didn't love so he decided to pursue acting. I think it was the right decision :)

And finally, a Quarry book by Max Allan Collins. I love the Quarry books, they're such fun. It's 1972, and Quarry is hired to take out an African American preacher who fancies himself the next Martin Luther King Jr. Quarry's boss assures him it's not political or racial, that the preacher is just a bad mad who deals drugs and cheats on his wife. Quarry goes to St. Louis and infiltrates the coalition to elect McGovern as the next president, meeting the preacher and his subordinates. Quarry quickly discovers another hit man who has been hired to take out the preacher as well, and wonders if he's being double-crossed in some way.