The Book Shopper

Book Event at Tall Tales in Toco Hills

Not sure if this qualifies for a book tour, but your blog narrator will be at the Tall Tales Book Shop in Toco Hills, (2105 LaVista Rd #108 Atlanta) holding an informal Monster-in-a-Box workshop. It's just a different approach than your standard book reading-signing event. For more about A Father's Letters and what the deal is with a Monster workshop, visit murray-browne.com and look for the links. 

I will bring rare copies of my other books as well —The Book Shopper: A Life in Review and Down & Outbound: A Mass Transit Satire.

More Book-Film Connections

In keeping with a recent blog theme of Oscar movies and books, I was reminded of another book while I watched Jonathan Glazer's historical drama The Zone of Interest.  The plot centers around the mostly mundane domestic life of Auschwitz commandant's family whose garden backs up to one of the walls of the concentration camp.  It wasn't Martin Amis' 2014 novel that the film was "loosely-based" upon. (I have not read the book.) 

Instead, it was a book that I read last year, which made my 2023 Best Books Read list— Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010)*. Not only can you read my thoughts about the book there, but I added some extensive notes on a separate page, including some excerpts about Auschwitz. You can find those notes here. 

* a later 2020 edition includes Snyder's discussion about the 2014 invasion of Ukraine (Crimea).