For Corinne’s spring break at the end of March, we planned to travel to Washington state. Scheduled on Amtrak’s Empire Builder, we would depart Chicago on Saturday and arrive in Seattle on Monday. After a couple of days visiting the Space Needle and Pike Place Market (among other things), we…
By definition, an unreliable narrator in a book (or any kind of story really) is one whose integrity has been compromised. You can’t really give them the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes they have an ulterior motive, and sometimes their memory is just faulty. A couple of years ago, I…
John Grisham’s first novel, A Time to Kill, didn’t become a bestseller until its release as a trade paperback. A practicing lawyer in Mississippi, Grisham spent four years writing the book based on a case he observed. He went through a lot of rejections before being picked up for a…
