Rosewater Press

 I'd like to try something a bit different today: a review of a normal book, something a little afield of the sort of geeky prose this blog was created to discuss. Another ambition of mine, aside from inspiring non-Who fans to give Faction Paradox a shot, is to get Who and Faction Paradox fans to broaden their horizons. As I've alluded to in the past, genre and series fiction - for a variety of reasons - can be an isolating place to be. There is little belief in movement to and from this realm, both from those who read it and those who don't. I'd like to start doing short, snappy reviews of non-Who books - non-genre books, even - to get some of y'all out of your comfort zones. I've tentatively titled this post "The Little Aimless Library" in reference to my Aimless Thoughts  series. Subject to change, of course.     The book I'd like to talk about today is Transit  by Anna Seghers, a 1944 novel about refugees in the second World War, translated fro...

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