This year I signed up for three challenges. Oh wait, no…I signed up for four, but after a few pages of Sookie, I backed out of the Sookie Stackhouse Challenge. But the other three…those I finished. Way back in January … Continue reading
A London Child of the 1870s Molly Hughes 200 pages First published 1934 ******************** For the FTC, because you’re so special: I bought this book from Persephone Books…you should check them out, as they are Very Cool. ******************** The Persephone … Continue reading
Eleanor of Aquitaine Alison Weir 1999 346 pages I finished Eleanor. Yay me. This book really should have been titled Eleanor, who lived in the Middle Ages and who was wife of Louis, King of France, and then wife of … Continue reading
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ~S.I. Hayakawa
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
~Mark Twain
