(source) Wolfsangel is a haunting fictional story based on the real-life tragedy of the WWII massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane. It was slightly slow-going in the beginning (due to setting up and getting to know everyone) but by the time I was halfway through the book I couldn’t put it down and read obsessively until it was finished. This book is set in a tiny French town that is being occupied by Germans, and by reading this book we learn to love…
Bonaventure Cemetery is the most beautiful place I have ever been to and definitely the most beautiful cemetery. It is nestled just outside of Savannah in thousands of huge trees covered in Spanish moss. It’s a place to go to let your heart exhale. A poet from Savannah who watched his parents die in a murder-suicide. Interesting how neither of them have died yet. Also the first I have seen where the man is listed as the husband of someone…
The Little French Guesthouse is about a couple, Emmy and Nathan, who take a vacation together to a small town in France. After a series of events, they break up and Emmy ends up spending the remainder of their vacation at the B&B where they had rented a room, making fast friends with their host, Rupert. Much of the beginning of this book is unpleasant. It’s all about the nasty bits of their breakup and I found myself speed reading…
(source) Planetfall is…an interesting book. I was hooked early on with the unique setting: men and women from earth have inhabited another planet for about 20 years and they have a “zero footprint” way of living. Everything is recycled and their houses are actually living things. There’s a turn when the son of a lost founding member shows up at their colony. The story changes completely from there. One thing that was kind of aggravating but kept me reading is…
Colonial Park Cemetery is a happy little surprise in the historic district of Savannah. I found one of the most delightful things there; a playground overlooking the cemetery.
(source) French Illusions and From Tours to Paris are both interesting books. They follow the 8 months that Linda spent in the Loire Valley and Paris as an au pair, student, and girlfriend. Everything is very detailed, written in present tense, and we often get the story minute-by-minute. These books don’t read like real-life; everyone in them uses perfect, un-conjugated grammar and always seems to say either the perfectly right or perfectly wrong thing. It was very distracting while reading…
Myke did it again! Another interesting and unique read unlike anything else I’ve read. One of my favorite things about Gemini Cell were the military missions, and while we didn’t have any this time, the lack of those were made up for by the uniqueness of the story. Dead bodies with multiple souls inside, working for and run by the government? Uh, cool. This book is packed with so much action, SO MUCH, especially since it seems to take place…
In this post I’m going to include our itinerary and general photos of Savannah. I will also have separate posts for photos of Bonaventure Cemetery, Colonial Park Cemetery, Oakland Cemetery, and Tybee Island coming soon. Friday, February 5th 2016We flew from Seattle to Atlanta then drove 3.5 hours to Savannah. We stopped at Waffle House for dinner. Even though the drive was all in the dark, it was a good one. The trees and the road were familiar and the…
(source) Meet Me In Paris is a memoir of a short time in the author’s life; it covers a period of only two to three years. It closely follows the ending of her marriage, taking on a “married-but-in-an-open-relationship” lover, the divorce, and how she works through her own demons to learn to make herself happy. This is not a happy book. It beautifully covers visiting France and the magic of the country, but that’s where the good stuff starts and…