I have long toyed with the idea of keeping a journal or diary. I like the idea of keeping a record of my life, something to look back on to remember how I felt about things in the past and see how ...

It all starts so simply: an unseasonably warm Sunday morning in November, errands to run, a waking family to get home to. On the first page of Alba de Céspedes’s novel “Forbidden Notebook” (Astra ...