Haunting Book: The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton
This month I’m writing another series of book reviews on “haunting books.” I haven’t read
October 1, 2014
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This month I’m writing another series of book reviews on “haunting books.” I haven’t read
When autumn came to 1848, San Francisco was already a boom town and coping with
Word of the Sutter’s Fort gold discovery reached Oregon in the summer of 1848. Oregon
In 1971, when I was fifteen, I went on a People to People High School
As I review my novel about the California Gold Rush with my writing critique partners,
By the beginning of June 1848 there were around 2,000 miners in the Sierra Nevada
I deliberately keep this blog away from politics. I’m told that writing about a hot-button
I wrote last time about Marshall, Missouri. Marshall does have one claim to fame—it was
I first visited Missouri in early June 1977, before my now-husband and I were married.
Although James Marshall found gold on the north fork of the American River in late