I’ve just finished Elizabeth Kostova’s The Swan Thieves, a book I first mentioned in my blog of 9/28/12. I wrote at the time that the novel had failed to receive the acclaim of her first work, The Historian, but that that knowledge hadn’t dissuaded me from buying it. I’m gla

As the saying goes, “Good things come to those who wait.” I’m not partial to waiting, to be honest. I hate standing in lines or at a stop light when I’m in the car. But this week, I was rewarded by waiting — though I admit, the waiting wasn’t by intention. Several year