Rufus

This was an ok Catherine Storr book about a boy who is able to go to another time because of a knife. His sister and him are orphans except she gets chosen to belong in a home. He stucks in a school where a bully starts making him do things against his personality like stealing. Eventually he conquers his fear of the bully and is a better person in the end. I like the representation the book had on the power bullies have over people and I couldn't help but feel sorry for Rufus.

On Tangled Paths

This book by Theodor Fontane was ok but there was something missing. It could have been something great. It's about a couple Lene and Botho. Their love is brief and can't last because of their social status since she is just a poor seamstress. Eventually Botho marries a shallow woman and realizes just how great Lene was but gives her blessing to her new husband Franke. Fontane's book Effi Briest is a more popular classic. I'm curious about it since it's had multiple movie adaptations. I'll have to read that some time.