I know I loved the Little House books but that was because of the other worldliness.
I also loved the other worldliness of those books, but I think I really connected with them because both Laura and Mary were so real. LIW did a great job of showing us what their characters were all about, as well as everyone else, that when I finally saw real photos of the people at the time of those books, I wasn't surprised at all.
There was a great photo taken after the Long Winter of the three older girls (Mary, Laura, and Carrie), and it wraps up all three of them at that time in one snapshot. Mary is stoic and calmly seated, with her lips firmly pressed together and hands correctly crossed, the epitome of the proper young 19th century woman, Carrie looks frail and weak, obviously still suffering from the harshness of the recently passed season, and Laura stands with her eyes flashing and her fist clenched, just as I always pictured her.
Librarything is cataloging the International Space Station's library.
I finished Late Eclipses, the latest Toby Daye novel, and it's definitely my favorite since the first, especially because it's got the sort of HSQ that's been set up since the beginning, which makes me all kinds of excited for the HSQ in store for the future. Breadcrumbs everywhere!
oh dear ... I hope you weren't reading it in bed
It's okay; they were eaten by the plot bunnies.
I found a copy of Tanith Lee's Dark Dance at Half Price Books and bought it with some vague memory that this was a favorite of Jilli's.
Book one of the Blood Opera sequence! Maaaan, I wish some publishing house would put out book four.
Would anyone like to recommend a book for my dad? He likes historical biographies, The Civil War, Will Cuppy, and Carl Hiaasen.
People who like Carl Hiaasen tend to like Elmore Leonard and Randy Wayne White. It's the wrong era, but C.J. Sansom's Matthew Shardlake books, set in the era of Henry VIII, are probably the best historical fiction I've read.
