Who could have conceived of a love story between a blind French girl and an orphaned German boy adept at repairing radios during World War II? The girl, Marie-Laure LeBlanc, has first her father, then her great-uncle
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Rita Reads From Milk House Water
I’m thrilled to have won first place in the Leslie Garrett Knoxville Writers Guild Short Fiction Contest. Two days before I received the news, my story “Milk House Water” was also accepted for publication in the Chaffin Journal
A Stolen Life, by Jaycee Dugard
Phillip Garrido, the low-life who kidnapped eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard and held her prisoner for 18 years, was sentenced to 431 years in prison for his unspeakable crimes. Nancy, his wife, got 36 years. A Stolen Life, written by Jaycee Dugard, is the story of what happened
“The Long Walk,” by Slavomir Rawicz, and “The Way Back,” the film version
To escape from a Soviet gulag in 1941 and walk across Siberia, Mongolia, the Gobi desert, the Himalayas, to British-controlled India, a distance of four thousand miles, is an impossible feat
Hacker Republic: Fact or Fiction
When WikiLeak hackers took down MasterCharge, Visa, and PayPal after the arrest of Julian Assange, I thought of Stieg Larsson’s book, “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.” It’s a crime thriller. Fiction. Made up stuff, some would say. Yet the similarities between what happens in this last of the Millenium series and the headline-grabbing […]
Within My Heart, Tamera Alexander
Within my Heart by Tamera Alexander is many things: a historical novel, a romance novel, a romance novel that fits nicely into the subcategory Christian romance. Central to the story is the developing relationship between the the beautiful young widow, Rachel Boyd, and the town physician, Dr. Rand Brookston. This is the first romance book […]
You Can Get Used to Anything
My brother is a quadriplegic. He’s lost all feeling in his feet. He has to look to see where they are. If he tries to walk, he falls. His right hand is useless, though he has some residual feeling in his left. He’s very protective of that, careful not to injure it in any way. […]
