Prologue / Bleak Expectations The book opens by discussing the fear in Britain after they declared war against Germany, on September 3, 1939. They knew they would be attacked, retained the memories if the bombings from WWI, and there was the knowledge that bombs had only grown strong since that time. The alert system, a …
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson was released earlier this year in February 2020. I read Larson’s fantastic book The Devil in the White City a couple years back and absolutely loved it, so I’ve been wanting to read another one of his books. Unfortunately, while this is a solid book about WWII …
Part I Chapters 1 – 4 Danny and Maeve Conroy are siblings who grow up with their father, Cyril, in a grand house in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania referred to as The Dutch House. The house is named after the Dutch family, the VanHoebeeks, who lived there before them, and it is decorated with paintings of …
Prologue. 1969. Two boys from the village go out riding bikes near the old fire tower. They discover the body of Chase Andrew in the swamp. Part One. 1952. Kya (Catherine Danielle Clark) is illiterate, barefoot, wild and unkempt. Her family lives in a small shack out in the marshes. Pa is a veteran, but …
Chapters 1 – 8 Anna Fox watches her neighbors (Rita and John Miller) through the zoom on her camera. They moved in two months ago and are one of five houses she can see. There’s also The Wassermans (Henry and Lisa, lived there for decades) and the Grays (a family with two teenaged girls). Plus …
