Occasional Book Review - "Sycamore Row" ... from Ocean City, NJ
Every reader has come across the books by John Grisham ... or you have enjoyed a film based on one of his books. Along with a number of other writers that I enjoy, Grisham is a dedicated producer of interesting novels that make the top ten list most of the time. I have to admit that I haven't read all of his work ... I tend to pick and choose with some of these ever producing writers.
But when I saw that Sycamore Row by John Grisham was out over the holiday ... and that it was a follow-up to his first novel, A Time to Kill, which dealt with the young lawyer from Ford County, Mississippi, Jake Brigance, who represented the black farmer who found his daughter raped and went out and killed the two Klan members who committed the crime.
It's a few years later, and Jake Brigance is still a young lawyer who appears to have another very interesting case where he must represent a white man who has decided to leave all of his large estate to a black woman instead of his immediate family. It's a another "Grisham novel, a long one, that carefully builds up to the court case ... and over 400+ pages brings the reader to a powerful finish line.
John Grisham has written at least 31 novels ... so there is something for everyone out there. My personal top four novels are his early first two books: "A Time to Kill and The Firm (both also made into good films) and a short book with the title Playing for Pizza about an American basketball player playing for a tean in Italy, and the latest book ... Sycamore Row. But there are a lot of others that might attract your attention as well, as many of them did for me.
Along with reading and writing, Dustin A. Peters, a retired teacher and high school principal, is now associated with Goldcoast Sotheby's International Realty in Ocean City, New Jersey starting his 22nd year in real estate.
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