Enjoy this wonderful entry highlighting three recommendations from Lori!
Erik Larson. I really love his writing. He incorporates history in readable stories. I always read history in black and white (in my head), these books give color and life to historic events.
“In the Garden of Beasts” is set in the months before World War II, in Berlin. William E. Todd (born in Clayton, NC) moves his family to Berlin to become America’s first Ambassador to Hitler’s Germany. Excellent book and relevant in these times of intolerance.
“The Devil in the White City”* Murder and madness set in Chicago. The history of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and a madman who murders young women. Scary, but I couldn’t put it down. I loved the history of the architects of the fair. *a major film currently in production starring Leo DiCaprio, to be released in 2013.
Just finished “Shanghai Sisters” by Lisa See. Great story set in the years before WW II to the 1960’s. Two sisters and how they escape China, and build a new family with strangers in California. Makes me wish I had a sister!
Lori
I enjoyed Shanghai Sisters as well. Also read Lisa See’s books Peony in Love and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. All page turners! I just finished Left Neglected by Lisa Genova. Something made me pick up this book. After having gone through a very difficult year with my niece’s accident, this story paralleled her recovery and was, in a way, a very enlightening and hopeful tale about family and priorities. Sigh, so many excellent books, so little time!
The Devil in the White City is a great book. Thanks for the referral to the other two. It’s the stuff I like to read.
Agreed!