Last night I finished a book that I liked but didn't love, despite expecting to when I picked it up. (The following commentary will be spoiler-free, I promise.) It was the second volume in a trilogy I read for Women In Translation Month (#WIT). I loved the first book by Cora Sandel, called Alberta and Jacob. I was taken by the atmosphere, the stillness, the boredom that surrounded the teenaged Alberta as she was growing up on the Gulf of Finland. Her constant fight against t