Author: Fictitiously Yours, Gail

"'Who are you?' said the Caterpillar. "This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied rather shyly, 'I--I hardly know, Sir, just at present--at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have changed several times since then.'" -Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll It takes some effort to pin down who in entirety we actually are because we are constantly changing--not perhaps several times a day like Alice, but I can see how different I was in my past compared to now. One thing that hasn't changed in years and probably never will is that I am a writer and bibliophile. Throughout stressful changes and evolutions of my mind, I hash it out in writing so that life carries on for me to read another book.

Emphasis on “Historical,” Weak on “Fiction”: The Dante Club and The Blackest Bird

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Two summers ago, I read two historical fiction books in pretty close succession, both mysteries, that, while gripping enough in the act of reading, I found less than satisfying afterwards. I was a bit puzzled as to why this was, because one of them, The Dante Club, was written by an author I had previously… Continue reading Emphasis on “Historical,” Weak on “Fiction”: The Dante Club and The Blackest Bird