I didn’t hate this book. It was interesting enough to keep me going to the end. There were enough questions I wanted answered that I kept going. I didn’t hate this book. Unfortunately, after finishing the book, I’m mostly left with a laundry list of the things that irritated me about it: 1. I realize […]
The Last Green Tree – Jim Grimsley Read More »
First, I have to say, I don’t normally bring hard historical non-fiction as a vacation reading book. Second, I slogged through Alison Weir’s book on Eleanor of Aquitaine (the grandmother in law of two of the queens mentioned in this book) earlier this year, and was a bit nervous about trying other book about roughly
Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe – Nancy Goldstone Read More »
I love Mercedes Lackey’s 500 Kingdoms series. I love the way she works in any number of fairy tales into a cohesive single story. The Fairy Godmother is still my favorite, but Fortune’s Fool is definitely the second on the list. This book is set in the world of Russian fairy tales, and works in
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I picked up this book when I found it used because it’s a favorite of my best friend. It’s a very interesting commentary on discrimination in society, as well as a great cautionary tale on genetic engineering. The book concerns the creation of the Sleepless, genetically engineered children who do not need to sleep, and
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Read for the Armchair Traveler’s Reading Challenge. Yemen is probably best known to Americans these days as the site of the USS Cole bombing, which is a shame, as this books paints a picture of a fascinating country with a long history. The author first traveled to Yemen because he was learning Arabic and desired
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Due to the excessive rain today (I’d wanted to get some gardening done before departing for my vacation on Wednesday), I managed to get the rest of the squares evened out in my celestial postage stamp quilt. I toyed with the idea of at least getting strips together, but the near dusk-like quality of the
A mere two weeks and two days later, I finally regained the full use of my computer, just in time to be going on vacation next Wednesday! Ah well. Hopefully, I’ll still have the time to catch up on some of the posts I’d wanted to do. At the very least, last night after only
Read for the Armchair Traveler Reading Challenge. Along the Inca Trail is subtitled “A Woman’s Journey into an Ancient Empire”, which pretty well sums up this book. It’s her chronicle of a six and half month journey through Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile, along the paths of the ancients Inca highways. The narrative is interspersed
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Well, I’m mildly ashamed that this is my first post for the month of July, but not only is my computer still unformatted, but I’ve had to take some time to deal with the conclusion of my grandmother’s fight with ALS. I’ve come by my crafting skills from Grammie. In her later years, she made
This book had caught my eye at Borders. The cover art is a 14th century Syrian painting of horseman galloping around a body of water. I admit to being somewhat curious about the history of Islam, due to recent events in the world, and immediately added the book to my reading list. I was most
