Regency novels always provide new words. Authors are usually good about making it clear what the meaning is from context so you don’t have to figure it out, as in this passage from An Unwilling Bride by Jo Beverley, about … Continue reading →
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic at The Broke and The Bookish are the “gateway” books or authors along our reading journey. Here are mine: 1. Dr. Seuss, my first favorite author. 2. The Boxcar Children, the first series I loved. 3. … Continue reading →
This quote, about our hero Jack trying to ditch a tail, from Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson helped me understand the original market at Les Halles in Paris better: Someone behind him came in for brutal tongue-lashings from the fishwives at … Continue reading →
Bloggiesta was so fun! I loved that it was four days this time. I had time to both socialize and get things done. I joined in all the Twitter chats, at least for a little while, and loved visiting other blogs … Continue reading →
Here’s an idea that I had during Bloggiesta: Anglophile Fridays, a weekly meme / blog hop about England (we won’t get too picky about borders, if people want to make that Great Britain). Anglophile Fridays would be modeled after Dreaming … Continue reading →
Ashley at OK, Let’s Read has started a new weekly event called Thursday Thoughts. It’s a bit like Booking Through Thursday which I’ve participated in before, but the questions are available in advance. She has topics set well into May. … Continue reading →
In Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson, this week I read a description of the shipyard of the Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam, 1684: This was a wonder all by itself, with its ropewalks–skinny buildings a third of a mile long–windmills … Continue reading →
This is my first Top Ten Tuesday post! I’ve been astounded at all the people who seem to come up with top ten lists on the fly–I could never do that! Recently, I realized that the good folks at The … Continue reading →
I’m so looking forward to Bloggiesta! Will you be participating? I intend to write my sign up post this afternoon. My Sunday was mostly spent organizing my reading plans so I could join the Spring Reading Thing and Once Upon … Continue reading →
Good morning! Time: // 8:32 am. The scene: // Cooler today — but it was warm enough yesterday for my first gardening work of the year! Listening to: // My Pandora radio station called childhood radio — what I listened to … Continue reading →