Daydeams

Every time I have the longing for that real winter feeling that I miss so much, one of my favorite passages from The Captain's Daughter always pops into my head, where the protagonist Pyotr, on his way travelling to his military outpost finds himself stuck in a blizzard, awake, yet dreaming in his carriage. Reality and dreams coming together. 

Prague 2012

The Spies of Warsaw

Surprisingly, this is the first time I'm finding out that Alan Furst's novel The Spies of Warsaw was recently made into a BBC miniseries. Historical fiction is my favorite, and there is no one who can richly recreate the atmosphere of the period leading up to World War II in Europe like Furst. I can't wait for this.

Vintage