for lovers of literature and culture
There’s a lot going on in my life right now (as I’m sure is obvious by the lack of posts) but I can’t deprive this site of W&C. The Guest List was a book that I wavered on. I mean Reese Witherspoon likes it but I also bought Where the Crawdads Sing because of her […]
Homer’s great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, the Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. His colourful adventures, his endurance, his love for his wife and son have the same power to move and inspire readers today as they did […]
For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true crime journalist who created […]
Happy Reading, this Earth Day! In the summer of 1937, Amelia Earhart is the most famous woman in the world – a record-breaking pilot, best-selling author, and a modern woman shattering the glass ceiling in the early days of aviation. And then she vanishes. In Tampe, Florida, 15-year-old Lizzie Friedlander spends her afternoons glued to […]
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