Penguin Acts Out – Introduction

The super cool people at Penguin English Library have been having a little fun with a penguin figurine and some famous scenes in classic literature.  This has been christened Penguin Acts Out. I’ve been inspired to do the same but I’ve only done a couple so far.  Watch this space for my contribution to Penguin…

REVIEW: MIDNIGHT IN PEKING by Paul French

I noted when I first read this, and I still find it true:  This is the best true crime book I have read since The Devil in the White City.  Paul French painstakingly recreates not only the last days of Pamela Werner, but a crumbling China.  Like the Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, Peking…