As summer gives way to fall, 2020 continues to churn on with uncertainty. It sure seems like this year has been no other in terms of the challenges we have faced. Perhaps that is why I have been committed to finding diversionary links to fill these pages. I hope you enjoy this weekend's collection of links.
Letters play a key role in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Often a letter will help propel the story forward. One author has worked to bring those letters to life in a new edition of the book.
These are some amazing photographs: capturing Ellis Island's lost period before its restoration.
I suppose this gives new meaning to the term "epic battle": this Dungeons and Dragons game has been going on for 38 years!
All British people are potential murderers according to Richard Osman, author of the upcoming novel The Thursday Murder Club which looks like it will be fantastic. You can read an excerpt here.
Answering the important questions: If I haven't read X book, am I reader? I think this is a fascinating question particularly there are a number of books that many folks would say I should have read and that I haven't.
True crime solved: a fortune in rare books that had been stolen in London have been found under a floor in Romania.
I tend to read a lot of mystery novels written in the so-called Golden Age (basically the period between the two World Wars). Here's a list from Martin Edwards, current president of The Detection Club and an expert on Golden Age fiction of authors from that period that deserve a lot more attention.
The Walther PPK is known as a classic spy gun because it is so closely associated with James Bond. However, when the gun was first introduced in 1930 it revolutionized the way that pistols were made.
Travel to Europe or anywhere else isn't really feasible right now but here are a list of American towns that will make you feel like you are in Europe.
Without a doubt one of the most difficult sequences to film in Star Wars was the fighter battles near the end of the movie. Director George Lucas turned to footage from World War II aerial battles for inspiration.
A new adaptation of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small has just premiered in the UK and will air in the US on PBS in 2021. Herriot's children reveal the truth behind the beloved books.
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