from the marginalia

Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs

Posted on June 22, 2024July 27, 2026 by Minerva

I finished the latest release of the Mercy Thompson series -- Winter Lost -- yesterday. Mercy Thompson is one of the few book series from my teenage era that I still actively read, due to a sense of nostalgia and nice writing (nice, as long as I only read one…

A Woman in Berlin by Marta Hillers

Posted on July 30, 2021June 4, 2026 by Minerva

A chance reading on war crimes introduced me to the memoir A Woman in Berlin. It tells a true story of a single woman in Eastern Berlin near the end of World War II. Just like The Diary of a Young Girl, this memoir offers a first-hand recount of the…