Patricia Furstenberg, Writer of Historical Fiction, Children's Books
Travel via Stories
While looking at an old map of Constantinople, Istanbul today, I felt lost even if I knew my way around. Some buildings were there, while others not yet. Old maps can be unsettling, but ancient maps of cities you just visited even more so.
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Welcome to Reading Over the Weekend where we celebrate the BRODY CODY stories by Toni Pike, books that entertain, spark the imagination, and sometimes leave us looking at the world through a child’s eyes.
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Stories at Bucharest’s Map Museum unfold through three remarkable early maps: Lorenz Fries’ 1525 map of Transylvania, his 1541 map of Dacia, and Gerardus Mercator’s 1595 map of Transylvania, each offering a glimpse into how cartographers of the past imagined and recorded these historic lands.
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This weekend, I’m stepping into the imaginative world of Sally Cronin with Flights of Fancy, an entertaining collection of eleven stories where murder can raise a smile, love survives beyond loss, and even a parrot can change someone’s life!
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Welcome to Reading Over the Weekend with D.L. Finn’s Miracles & Ghosts Past: A Christmas Collection Two, an exciting set of stories where Christmas magic is found not in glitter and tinsel, but in the quiet places where grief, loneliness, love, and hope meet.
Some books ask to be analysed. Others ask to be noticed. And then there are those that make you pause halfway through a page and say, I want to remember that.
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