Sometimes you need a book that you can curl up with and escape the world with and Call Me Home by Megan Kruse is just such a book. The short and skinny is that it's about a woman named Amy who has tried to flee her abusive relationship several times, only to finally succeed when her son is 18 and her daughter is a young teenager. Life in an abusive home has affected each member … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2015
A Reread of ‘The Prince’
I recently started a book titled The Next Decade: Empire and Republic in a Changing World by George Friedman and it relies on the philosophies offered up in Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince. Before starting this new book, I decided to refresh my memory and reread The Prince so that I would go into this new book a little better equipped than I would be without a reread. The book … [Read more...]
That Time I Met Diana Gabaldon
A few weeks ago I found out that author and #30Authors contributor, Stephanie Carroll, was coming to town for the Historical Novel Society's conference in Denver. I was so excited because I have never met her in person, even though we've chatted a lot via email and Twitter since I reviewed her book, A White Room, more than year ago. She was always great via the web but I was … [Read more...]
From Sewage to Swimwear: How the Modern World Was Made
What does the printing press have to do with germ theory? How did glass give rise to the selfie? And what's the deal with time? If you are wondering about the answers to these questions then you're going to want to pick up How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World. It's a brief but comprehensive book, covering a wide range of topics in just enough depth to … [Read more...]
Keeping It Real: How Much “Fiction” Belongs in Historical Fiction?
Today's post a guest post from Cynthia Swanson, author of The Bookseller: A Novel.When I started writing The Bookseller, it was set in the present day. The novel tells the story of Kitty Miller - a late 30s, single woman who owns a bookstore in Denver with her best friend Frieda. Kitty begins to have nightly dreams of an alternative reality in which she’s a wife and … [Read more...]