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Book Review / Historical Fiction Posted on: April 8, 2018July 4, 2024

The Wooden King, by Thomas McConnell

I have read books set during World War II written from the perspective of Holocaust […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction Posted on: April 3, 2018April 3, 2018

The Devil’s Reward, by Emmanuelle de Villepin

Christiane’s family might never have managed to reconnect if it weren’t for Rudolf Steiner and […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction Posted on: April 1, 2018March 30, 2018

Woman at 1,000 Degrees, by Hallgrímur Helgason

After the life she’s had, it’s probably not a surprise that Herbjörg María Björnsson (better […]

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Book Review / Literary Fiction / Science Fiction Posted on: March 30, 2018July 25, 2018

Darwin’s Ghosts, by Ariel Dorfman

Late in Ariel Dorfman’s philosophical novel Darwin’s Ghosts, a professor asks the protagonist, “who is not […]

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Book Review / Nonfiction & True Crime Posted on: March 27, 2018March 26, 2018

1,000 Days on the River Kwai, by Cary Owtram

To date, most of what I know about the experience of Allied prisoners of the […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction Posted on: March 26, 2018March 25, 2018

In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills, by Jennifer Haupt

How do people forgive each other? Really forgive, not just say that it’s okay or […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction Posted on: March 23, 2018

Disoriental, by Négar Djavadi

At the beginning of Disoriental, by Négar Djavadi and translated by Tina Kover, we sit down in the […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction Posted on: March 16, 2018March 15, 2018

Gateway to the Moon, by Mary Morris

There are many factors that contribute to the creation of a person. Three of them […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Mystery Posted on: March 15, 2018March 15, 2018

The Forgotten Ones, by Steena Holmes

I don’t know that I’ve ever read a book about digging up family skeletons in […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Thriller Posted on: March 13, 2018March 9, 2018

Nothing is Forgotten, by Peter Golden

If one’s parents are from Europe and emigrated to America in the late 1940s or […]

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