July 14, 2012

I Confess - by: Johannes Mario Simmel (1968, 1977 translation from German: Ich Gestehe Alles)

When I arrived at Seatac Federal Detention I asked for, "something to read". This is one of two books I was handed through the bean-slot. The other book was a genre I could never palate (romance, but this one wasn't bad at all, for fiction. It was written in post-war Germany, so it had some interesting cultural references that typically get lost with time.

Magic and Mystery in Tibet - by: Alexandra David-Neel (1932, 2014)

This is one of those rare books that exposes another culture in a way that really opens it up an lets the reader glimpse for themselves what...