Traveling with books
I recently came across an article in bbc.com, listing the books Sir Ernest Shackleton took with him onboard the Endurance when he set off for Antarctica. When Ernest Shackleton went to Antarctica, he expected to be gone for the better art of a year, even if he could hardly expect his ship to be trapped […]
Summer Book reading list
Suite Française by Iréne Nemirovsky Iréne Nemirovsky was born in Kiev in 1904, and emigrated to France at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution. Her novel Suite Française is set in France in the first days of the German occupation. Written in French, it describes the desperate, often comic, attempts of a variety of French […]
Summer Reading – The Riddle of the Labyrinth
The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit Fox (ECCO Books, a Division of Harper Collins) is the kind of book I like. It is a thriller based on a true story, centered on the deciphering of the ancient script Linear B. The book is divided into three parts—The Digger, The Detective, and The Architect. The […]
