Tag: DC

Review: The After Days by Amy Ginsburg

I received a copy of this book from the author, through a friend who lives in the DC area.  Ginsburg’s story of what happens in a Maryland suburb during a world-wide power outage was pretty fascinating, although the premise requires a bit of a leap: terrorists have banded together to attack power grids covering most of…

Attending the National Book Festival

The National Book Festival has been going on for 17 years in DC, and I’ve never been.  Not because I didn’t know about it; some of my colleagues go every year and one proudly displays their posters (which are quite beautiful) around her office. I don’t go because I really don’t like big crowded events,…