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Over the time we will spend together, I will share with you words and illustrations from the M. Morely book The Bee People. Published 1899; self-illustrated designed for third to fifth grade readers with goal to learn “how to observe”. If you would like to skip ahead and read it all, it is available here but […]
Read MoreBloodletter’s Daughter – Linda Lafferty Another intriguing historical fiction work, based closely on the Bohemian legend of Marketa Pichlerova of Cesky Krumlov, the bath maid at the center of this quick read. (I stumbled across this one as part of an Amazon Local deal.) Sometimes I find historical fiction works to be a slog to […]
Read MoreCutting for Stone: Abraham Varghese On the bus the other day I saw a lady reading this book and I was nearly overcome by the urge to talk with her about it. Was she completely drawn in to the setting, the colors, the smells? Ponder what her life as a novel would read as? Feel […]
Read MoreMoloka’i – Alan Brennert Moloka’i is a beautifully written piece of historical fiction. Until the book came up during an interview at work (HINT: a great way to build your personal reading list and learn about candidates is to ask them what the last book they read for fun) and quickly piqued my interest. Until […]
Read MoreThe Sweet Life in Paris – David Lebovitz There is a theme of late with books I am selecting: food. Not all have yet been posted but I am finding a strange attraction to audiobooks about food being read to me. Who would have thought listening to recipes and gory food details would be so […]
Read MoreAll Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot A collection of wonderful four-legged (and a few with two) friend stories strung together by a Scottish vet’s great prose and endearing persona. Anyone who has loved any animal, will connect with this book. It has tears of joy and sadness, humor, love and painted imagery and […]
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Odds & Hens : Ramblings. Creations. 