Maus is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman. I picked it up, used, years ago and read it a couple of times. Once to enjoy and a second time to absorb the fictionalized biography of a very dark time in the world seventy years ago. To me it was a reminder of the importance…
Category: International
International themes and locations
Circuit Makati
It’s been years in the making, but our home away from home is finally finished and we are spending our first time back in the Philippines since 2019 getting reacquainted with the area. There is an entirely new mall with several bookstores and lots of new restaurants. We are set to meet up with family…
Traveling with Books
I’m leaving for the Philippines next weekend and have a lot of catching up to do. It’s been three-plus years since I was there last and I’m excited to see my friends again. It’s also been more than a year since the condo we bought was finished and we have yet to see it, except…
The Durrells
I recently finished watching The Durrells in Corfu on PBS. It was one of those stories that inspires me to lead a more interesting life (in the 1st quarter of 2021, after living through 2020, that would not be much of a challenge). After being recently widowed, a woman decides to move from England to…
Book Club News – November 2020
Seeing the breath of education and feeling the soul of an institution called a school I have always been partial to international literature because reading it opens my mind and my eyes to things different from what I see in my everyday world. A friend of mine on Facebook recommended this book by an Indonesian…
Book Club News – March 2020
I picked up an interesting read at Macawber’s book store before he closed for business, THE KITCHEN BOY, by Robert Alexander, is spell binding from many directions. While it is fiction, there is a lot of historical fact embedded throughout. It continues my focus on International reading, as it is set in Russia during the…
Book Club News – August 2019
This month Griffonneur Press bookclub is reading more from The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – THE HOUSE OF UNEXPECTED SISTERS, by Alexander McCall Smith. I picked it up from Valley Bookseller in Stillwater on a book run there in June 2018. It’s been in my “To Read” book pile since then, so I’m happy…
Travel blog
Traveling the world. Two hundred years ago this was an option only for the very wealthy. Besides this tiny percent of the population, there were also groups of people willing to give up everything to take a chance at a better life in a different country. If one knew how to read, there were books,…