Catherine Raynes: From Here to the Great Unknown and In Too Deep

From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough  

Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough. 
 
In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir. 
 
A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never know her story in her own words, never know the passionate, joyful, caring, and complicated woman that Riley loved and grieved. 
 
Riley got the tapes that her mother had recorded for the book, laid in her bed, and listened as Lisa Marie told story after story about smashing golf carts together in the yards of Graceland, about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about being upstairs, just the two of them. About getting dragged screaming out of the bathroom as she ran towards his body on the floor. About living in Los Angeles with her mother, getting sent to school after school, always kicked out, always in trouble. About her singular, lifelong relationship with Danny Keough, about being married to Michael Jackson, what they shared in common. About motherhood. About deep addiction. About ever-present grief. Riley knew she had to fulfill her mother's wish to reveal these memories, incandescent and painful, to the world. 
 
To make her mother known. 
 
This extraordinary book is composed of both Lisa Marie's and Riley's voice, a mother and daughter communicating across the transom of death as they try to heal each other. Profoundly moving and deeply revealing, From Here to the Great Unknown is a book like no other-the last words of the only child of a true legend. 

  

In Too Deep by Lee Child and Andrew Child  

Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had got there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure. 

Jack Reacher wakes up, alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there. 

The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The driver was killed. 

His captors assume Reacher was the driver's accomplice and patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk. 

A plan that will backfire spectacularly . . . 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from newstalk ZEDB.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Sweet it's well one news talks. He'd be Katherine Raines
has picked two cracking books for this weekend. Hey Catherine,
Oh hang on again, Hey Catherine, mind Jack. Sorry, I've
got a press a button sometimes and it's very complicated. Okay.
So first book this morning, from Here to the Great Unknown,
by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Cole.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
So Lessa Marie had been working on this memo for years,
luminating his story on audiotapes, but of course died before
she finished it. But she'd asked Riley, her daughter, to
help her write the book, and so after her mother's death,
she completed this memoir by and she fills in the
gaps and comments on her mother's thoughts, and so she
gives us this really good story of Elvis's father told

(00:57):
by Lisa Marie, and account of Lisa Marie's life in
her own words and what she was like as a
mother and a grandmother as told by Riley. So it's
laid out that as I said, Lisa Marie tells her
story and then Riley adds her perspective to it. And
she was the eldest child of Lisa Marie and so
she was witnessed her to a lot and her viewpoints
really add a lot to the story. And so it

(01:17):
starts with Lisa Marie's early years in bracetand with Elvis,
and she recounts how much she adored living with her
father and the moments when she made him laugh, and
then after his death feeling really displaced and ending up
in Los Angeles and living with her mum, Priscilla, and
her real rebellion during those years, moving from school to school.
It is a really recurring theme, and she struggles with addiction,

(01:39):
and he gets stories about Michael Jackson and Nicholas Cage
and a really heartbreaking part of the story is when
she talks about the suicide of Riley's brother Benjamin, and
you know, she had been drinking herself to death worrying
about his son, and he'd felt responsible for his spiraling
and drug addicted mother. And the whole story that Riley
tells through this and she brings it. She has an

(02:01):
excellent job of bringing her mum to life and all
his flaws, you know, and what she was like as
a mum, and this family centered about love, and you know,
it talks all about all of these things in her
first husband, who she met as a teenager. And I
really feel like it's this quite wore an unstorted account
of Lisa Marie's life, and it's a really tragic and

(02:21):
heartbreaking tale.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, okay, yeah it does sound it sounds really sad,
but yeah, fascinating on the list. So that's from Here
to the Great unknine by Lisa Marie Presley and Rudy
co Next up, I know a lot of people be
very excited about this. They probably already pre ordered it
in time for Christmas. In Too Deep by Lee Child
and Andrew Child.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
So believe it or not, this is actually the twenty
ninth book in the Jack Reacher series. And yeah, the
action from the start. So Jack Reacher wakes up alone
and handcuffed in the dark in a place he doesn't know,
and he has a serious arm injury, and he has
no clue how he got there, and his memory is
incredibly foggy, but he just knows that the surroundings the

(03:04):
hostile and the last thing he remember members is hitching
a ride with someone and they will run off the road.
Otherwise nothing and we're in the action right from the
start as he's fighting to survive, and he has short
term memory loss which really doesn't help him work out
what's going on in the story and the characters around
him and who's a villain and who's not, and you know,

(03:24):
who's telling the truth and who might not be. And
so it's classic check creature, you know, lots of observations
and confrontations and great tactics and piercing to get it.
The mystery of why he's been taken on, what he's
got himself into, and so those layers of confusion and
mistrust around and so without spawning any more of the plot,
there's a great cast of supporting characters and some excellent villains,

(03:44):
and packed with action and suspense as you would expect
from a Jack Reacher novel.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Wonderful Okay, It's in Too Deep by Lee Child and
Andrew Child, Catherine's first book From Here to the Great
Unknown by Lessa Marie Presley. Both of those, of course
up on the Newstalk z'b website. It's called it a twelve.
Sean Mendia's next on Newstalgs z'b.

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