Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

Ravensbruck.  Hitler’s “work camp” … for women. At the main camp… 26,700 women taken from their homes… And worked… to death… and they were the lucky ones. Young Dr. Herta Oberheuser, desperate to be equal to her male counterparts, takes a position at Ravensbruck – unaware of what’s in store for her.  The horror sheContinue reading “Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly”

The Women In The Castle by Jessica Shattuck

Quiet as you hold the book in you hand. The pages still. The gentle rise and fall of the first few pages transports you to an aristocratic party held in the von Lingenfels castle. Here the secrets begin. Here a plot is born. Here a promise is made to brave conspirators by Marianne von Lingenfel,Continue reading “The Women In The Castle by Jessica Shattuck”

INSIDE OUT: and outside in? 

Sometimes, you have to slow down, and look at all there is that around you that is natural created beauty. We miss so many things around us just in the act of being late, rushed, happy, bouncing, or simply so self involved that all we see is us. Our pain. Our joy. Our sadness. OurContinue reading “INSIDE OUT: and outside in? “