Who was Stefan George? If you look him up, you will find out that he was born in 1868 and died in 1933, and that he was a poet. In fact, he […]
SECRET GERMANY: Stefan George and his Circle by Robert Edward Norton
THE BEAST’S GARDEN BY Kate Forsyth. Narrated by Jennifer Vuletic.
I am a fan of Kate Forsyth. I love the way in which she takes folk tales and put a new twist on them. I loved Bitter Greens (her take on Rapunzel), […]
Emile Zola’s NANA
NANA by Emile Zola is an interesting take on sex-obsessed Paris of the nineteenth century, the Paris that has now become a stereotype for sexual behavior in our own times. The heroine, […]
FAREWELL MY LIFE garners a 5-star review from Indie Reader!
Here is what Indie Reader had to say: Droll, dramatic, frightening, immersive, FAREWELL MY LIFE grabbed my attention from the first pages and kept it the entire way. Cynthia Sally Haggard’s FAREWELL […]
History 2 from Farewell My Life by Cynthia Sally Haggard
FAREWELL MY LIFE is a novel about dissolving, crumbling and the vanishing of comfortable lives and assumptions. Again I was SO LUCKY! While doing research on the novel, I noticed that Alfred […]
History 1 from Farewell My Life by Cynthia Sally Haggard
The value of the Mark declined during the war, going from about 4.2 Marks to the dollar at the beginning of the war in August 1914, to about 8.91 Marks to the […]
Setting, Farewell My Life by Cynthia Sally Haggard, BERLIN, GERMANY in the 1930s
FAREWELL MY LIFE is in three parts. The third part, FAREWELL MY LIFE opens in Berlin, Germany in July 1938. At that time, Berlin was like a patient in a dentist’s chair […]
Interview Questions 25: Answered by Cynthia Sally Haggard
What historical time period do you gravitate towards the most with your personal reading? That depends on what I’m working on. When I was writing Thwarted Queen I read historical fiction about […]
Setting, Farewell My Life by Cynthia Sally Haggard: BERLIN, GERMANY in the 1920s
FAREWELL MY LIFE is in three parts. The second part, AN UNSUITABLE SUITOR opens in Berlin, Germany in January 1922. At that time, Berlin was a poor and impoverished city, still recovering […]
She walked away. But she wasn’t weak. (PARIS WIFE)
PARIS WIFE by Paula McLain is a fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway’s first marriage to Hadley Richardson, and the time they spent together in Paris during the 1920s. Hadley Richardson was not […]
