Thinking Out Loud
I finished Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James Loewen. I read the first edition, published in 1995. I was particularly taken with his description of the more recent past and how poorly books address it: that “recent past” in 1995 was my own childhood: Vietnam, the energy [...]
Despite the busy-ness of March, I have been reading and listening to books. I enjoyed another Flavia de Luce mystery, A Red Herring Without Mustard, read by Jayne Entwhistle. Fluff but the chemistry and culture keep me coming back. As for reading, I made it through Outlander although I’ll admit to skimming the last 75 [...]
Another two months have past…I haven’t been writing but I have been reading. With six weeks left in the year, I only have nine books to go to complete the 75 book challenge, which won’t be a problem since almost everything that has been keeping me busy for the past three months will be over. [...]
As you can see, dear readers, I have taken something of a hiatus from this blog and from my online life in general including nings and twitter and facebook. A new “part-time” job began in July but June was filled with preparations and travel. My first month on the job included lots of travel as [...]
On April 2, I posted to this blog that I had started reading Rebel, the first book in the Starbuck Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell’s Civil War series and decided to make Civil War books my theme for April. Later that same day, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell declared April to be Confederate History Month and set off [...]
Well, the sick husband passed the cold along to me so I’ve spent a lot of time in bed for the past 72 hours. I finished the Wyeth biography (really terrific read) and then puttered over the books to decide what to read next. I found two mysteries that seemed like perfect sick bed reading: [...]
Stayed home from church and with a sick husband sleeping on the couch, I did one of my favorite things: escaped back to bed with a big mug of coffee and a book. In my younger days, there was nothing more wonderful than a morning spent in bed with coffee and books. This morning, it [...]