Carnegie medal winners
I recently read both 2012 winners of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction: Anne Enright's The Forgotten Waltz (Fiction) and Robert K. Massie's Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Nonfiction) Enright begins The Forgotten Waltz , with a forbidden kiss witnessed by a child; we travel back with Gina Moynihan as she recollects her loves and lust in Dublin's suburbs. Though the book was well written I didn't enjoy it. I really struggle with works of fiction that revolve around affairs and indiscretions. I just don't enjoy watching as people throw away their marriages and lives for moments of passion, and inevitably wind up destroying those around them. (My exception to this rule is Gone With the Wind ). I loved Massie's Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman , which is an amazingly detailed account of Catherine the Great's Life from her early beginnings as Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg (Damn! ...