SERIOUS BOOK

Some serious thoughts about a book.

As you probably know, your Queen is a visual person.  Mind pictures form easily and vividly from seeing, reading or even imagining.  Knowing this about herself, she is often protective and keeps some things at bay.

One of these things turns out to be the newest book by Joel Rosenberg "The Auschwitz Escape".  It's an historical novel - his first.  We are huge fans of Joel and have read all of his other books and followed his blog on occasion.  A great researcher and writer.  However, the subject of this book being obvious, it quickly started forming stark and troubling visuals for us.

We finally skipped to the end (nevernevernever do we do this!) and read the Epilogue and then the Author's Note.

We are flabbergasted that there are whole contingents of folks that do not believe this ever happened!  The History Changers.  Well IT DID!  And since this fiction is history based and well written, it becomes too much for your Queen.

Doesn't mean you shouldn't read it.

Did you, could you, read "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck?  Well, if you could or did, you are good on this.  You Queen adores Steinbeck's books and has most of them -- except for the aforesaid Grapes.  Just couldn't do it.  Nor the movie.

And after that serious note, on to something lighter?

She has her serious moments --  Your Queen