B Reviews / Book ReviewsFairy-Tales / France / Germany / Japan / Russia / Siberia / Sweden / Ukraine / VietnamNo Comments
: International bestselling children’s author Cornelia Funke has long been inspired and fascinated by fairy tales. This wonderful anthology is Funke’s personal selection of fairy tales from all around the world – not just from her native Germany but from Russia, Japan and the Native American tradition. It’s the perfect ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews20th century / Biography / epistolary novel / Historical / illness / Jewish-faith / Sweden / World War II5 Comments
In this improbably joyous novel about two recovering concentration camp survivors, love is the best medicine. July 1945. Miklos is a twenty-five-year-old Hungarian who has survived the camps and has been brought to Sweden to convalesce. His doctor has just given him a death sentence — his lungs are filled ... more >
B ReviewsFinland / Historical / Sweden / Viking10 Comments
Dear Ms. Lake: As a deep lover of Elizabeth Vaughan’s Warlords of the Plains series, I’m always on the lookout for stories that feature a fish out of water heroine trying to make her way. I read the blurb for The Warlord’s Wife and immediately requested it because it seemed just ... more >