When you’re writing a book, you need a lot of words. Pretty much, right? But songs don’t need a lot of words – and sometimes, it doesn’t take a lot of words to say how a book makes someone feel. Here, in The Book I Read by The Talking Heads, there aren’t a lot of lyrics – but any author can appreciate the ones that are there: “I’m writing ’bout the book I read / I have to sing about the Book I read / I’m embarrassed to admit it hit the soft spot in my heart / When I found out you wrote the / Book I read” Have a listen … and smile.
Delaney’s Hope by Ed Griffin
Genre of this Book: social science fiction
Word count: 99,000
He never thought they’d agree. A prison without walls. Inmates managing themselves. One last chance to turn their lives around.
When warden Tom Delaney proposes a new style prison he never imagined the head of the prison board would give him funding. When he gets the green light there is only one condition-the inmates he’s assigned will be the toughest, most dangerous criminals in the state.
Men and women desperate to break free from their bonds.
A sadistic prison governor with his own agenda.
And Tom Delaney, the warden who wouldn’t give up.
Delaney’s Hope is the story of the prison that should never have worked.
The scene would have been eerie enough if it had only been a heavy fog. It wasn’t fog, of course. It was nerve gas – the kind of stuff we swore we didn’t have anymore.
Jenkins and I hunkered down, sweating away in our safesuits, weapons at the ready. The dead quiet was unnerving.
“You think that got ’em, Paul? That had to get ’em. Nothing could live through that.”
I closed my eyes as I heard the distant snap of a twig among the trees. I tightened my grip on the flamethrower. They were still coming…
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