I’m still not sure what I want to tell you about this book. A few days ago on Twitter there was a conversation amongst some Cannon ballers about which reviews are the hardest to write – the scathing or congratulatory. I weighed in that the scathing were easier to write, and the congratulatory ones take the most time to craft. What I forgot to take into account, and what would come home to roost this week, is that the “it had such great potential and […]
Love, Travel and Illness: Louis and Fanny
Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne has packed up her children and moved from San Francisco to Europe to get away from her philandering husband. While she is in France, she meets and eventually develops a relationship with Robert Louis Stevenson, a man ten years her junior, who will become famous as the author of pieces such Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (unfortunately, that’s the only thing of his I’ve read). Their life and their relationship ends up being very determined by his […]