Writing Out Loud

This is a truly magnificent book, one that stays with you and disturbs your sense of stability as I imagine an earthquake would as it trembles and shifts the ground beneath your feet.  It was written in 1994, and takes place in a small fictitious town outside Dusseldorf between WWI and WWII.  However, it struck […]

This novel, described as a historical mystery, was first published in 1998.  It was recommended to me by a friend, perhaps because she knows I write mysteries and love historical fiction.  Although many people shy away from long books – this one is 725 pages – I usually enjoy them.  I’m a fast reader and […]

Sometimes it’s really important to read a book that someone you barely know highly recommends.  I really don’t think I ever would have found Man in the Woods had it not been thrown out there as the best book she read this year by a woman I have never met but with whom I share […]