At almost 1,000 pages in length, “The Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett is a hefty tome. Its heft reflects the weightiness of its overall subject — the building
Reading Emma’s tweets would be like reading – well, lots of people’s tweets… I’m finally back on the original 2013 reading list, finishing out the year with appropriate (to me, anyway) seasonal choices. As is my rule of the last few years, I’m reading my second Jane Austen novel of the year (for many years I read all…
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“Journey in the Dark” by Martin Flavin just might be the quintessential American novel. It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1944. It also won the Harper Prize in