by Marianne Perry | Sep 9, 2016 | My Reflections
How Do You Celebrate Your Ancestors’ Stories? Book Review: The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor by Sally Armstrong The Nine Lives Of Charlotte Taylor is a blend of fact and fiction that tells the story of Sally Armstrong’s great-great-great grandmother. It chronicles...
by Marianne Perry | Jul 27, 2016 | My Reflections
Tracks by Robyn Davidson What is your camel trip? I read Tracks the winter of 2015 after purchasing it in Uluru at a camel farm while exploring Australia’s Northern Territory. When lending it to a friend, I noted a few lines I’d highlighted and thought...
by Marianne Perry | Jun 23, 2016 | My Reflections
The Waddi Tree by Kerry McGinnis What’s A Jackeroo? I purchased The Waddi Tree by Kerry McGinnis in 2015 in the Alice Springs Airport while awaiting a flight to Sydney, Australia. Alice Springs is a town of about 25,000 in central Australia situated in the Northern...
by Marianne Perry | May 12, 2016 | My Reflections
My initial step in deciding whether or not to spend time with an author and the book he/she has written is to study the front cover. I was intrigued by the image depicted on The Silent Wife; a shadowy female silhouette floating on a storm-gray haze over which the...
by Marianne Perry | Nov 18, 2014 | My Reflections
The Tiergarten is a five-hundred twenty-acre public park in central Berlin. [nz_sep top=”20″ bottom=”20″ width=”” height=”” type=”solid” color=”#e0e0e0″ align=”left” /] Authenticity is...
by Marianne Perry | Nov 4, 2014 | My Reflections
Ethereal swans captivated us at the Seventeenth Century Royal Residence in Munich. With a population of 1.2 million, the city is the insurance capital of Germany. [nz_sep top=”20″ bottom=”20″ width=”” height=””...