Jul19
Message from the Edge
Daily Life in the Third Reich Hans Fallada, in Every Man Dies Alone, takes us into the moment-to-moment reality of life in Berlin, 1942, when Hitler is claiming victory in France, but bombs are starting to fall in the city. This is not a book about...
Jul11
A Tale of Two Thrillers, or What to Read on Vacation
Vacations are for mysteries, at least in my life, so recently I have read two thrillers: “The Expats,” by Chris Pavone, and “Mission Song,” by John Le Carre. It’s not easy to compare favorably to Le Carre, who is a master...
Jun27
Literary Fiction
I read a lot of it these days! Never boring, though sometimes I stop before I’m through with a book if I don’t like it. I have learned that lightening does not strike you dead if you do that… Now I am reading American Woman, by Susan...
