Xepherus Reads

    Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!   When I was a child I saw Jaws, and to this day I am weary of going into the water at the beach. But Jaws has been a staple in my yearly movie-watching experience. I love it and always wanted to read the original source material. Taking up this decades-old novel, I set upon a journey that was very different from Steven Spielberg's version.   Jaws is Peter Benchley's 1974 novel, which enjoyed over forty weeks on the national best-seller list after its release. It is currently published in paperback by Ballatine Books, an imprint of Random House Publishing. In it, we are brought into the lives of the residents of Amity Island, New York. Chief Martin Brody does his best to keep the tourist town running smoothly under the watchful eye of Mayor Larry Vaughn. Then a young woman goes missing after swimming in the ocean near the island. Soon her remains are discovered and ruled as a shark attack. But the evidence seems off. Wat...