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About meBooks are my life. Through books I have the chance to understand how others have lived and experienced the world, today, yesterday, in another culture, or in the imagination. I read hungrily - at least two or three books at a time, each for different reasons. I am also a professional historian, trying to impart to my students not just my passion for learning about the past, but why it is so important to learn how to read documents, images, places, even faint traces of the past with skill and sensitively for what they have to tell us about people, cultures, and places long past. Without it we are confined to our own experiences, a life that is too confining and narrow for me.

About my libraryWhile I love books, I do not collect them, and own relatively few. I leave the collecting of books to the research libraries that I love and use on a regular basis. My LibraryThing library therefore represents only a select few books -- fiction and non-fiction alike -- that shape the way I think about crafting the best history, the best stories, I can. Look for the list never to be more than twenty or thirty at a time, and for it to change.

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Real nameThomas Robisheaux

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Shaman of Oberstdorf : Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the phantoms of the night by Wolfgang Behringer

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Exorcism and Enlightenment : Johann Joseph Gassner and the demons of eighteenth-century Germany by H. C. Erik Midelfort

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Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century Germany by David Blackbourn

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An Instance of the Fingerpost: A Novel by Iain Pears

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The Last Witch of Langenburg: Murder in a German Village by Thomas Robisheaux

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Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives by Natalie Zemon Davis

I know what you mean. I was absolutely positive that the death must have been natural causes until I saw that real-life mystery program. The similarities in the autopsy descriptions were so uncanny, I had to freeze it and replay it several times while comparing it to the book. It was totally unexpected. Without that coincidence, I would always have assumed the death was natural. The puzzle for me is why. As I learned more about Eva, I came to suspect her. I'm not sure of her reasoning but I feel her motives may have been a mixture of envy and desperation. I think she saw it as her way out of town and away from her mother. Theirs definitely was not a healthy mother and daughter relationship!

I also found Van Gulchen and the Count very interesting characters. They were so much more compassionate and up-standing than I would have expected from the ruling class. The personal interest the Count showed in his subjects was touching and unexpected. It truly made me rethink my prejudice against the ruling class of that time. I usually avoid any history beyond the Romans just because I couldn't stand the whole serf/lord of the realm concept. It always galled me. Now I'm wondering what my prejudices may have kept me from seeing. I definitely will approach history with a more objective frame of mind in the future.

posted by craftyfox at 8:14 pm (EST) on Feb 19, 2009

I finished the book and loved every minute of it. I've posted my review in my library. I intend to purchase a copy of your other book. I found myself very interested in a period of history in which I had absolutely no interest. Thank you for opening my mind to an era that I had neglected in my history readings. I fully intend to remedy that matter! I hope to see more from you soon!!

posted by craftyfox at 11:02 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2009

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