It's been a snowy week around here. And foggy. And icy. And sleety. With a little rain thrown in for good measure. And also ice. Did I mention the ice? The streets have been covered in ice. It's made driving interesting. Hey ho for January. Obligatory Mina Photo: Mina has decided that sitting on top … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: January 26, 2020
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Book Review: Epic Solitude
Epic Solitude: A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the Far North by Katherine Keith Memoir 280 pages Expected publication: February 4, 2020, by Blackstone Publishing Memoirs about women going out into the world to find themselves or their own truths have become a veritable cottage industry since the success of … Continue reading Book Review: Epic Solitude
State of the ARC, November 2019
State of the ARC is a meme hosted by Avalinah’s Books in which we round up our ARCs and attempt to wrangle them into something approaching order. Sometimes it’s like herding cats. I read one whole ARC in November, Labyrinth of Ice by Buddy Levy, which I was approved for a couple of weeks … Continue reading State of the ARC, November 2019
Book Review: Labyrinth of Ice
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy History 400 pages Expected publication: December 3, 2019, from St. Martin's Press Though we know now what the North Pole is like and have maps that show the shifting-- and melting-- polar ice caps in high resolution, we didn't always know … Continue reading Book Review: Labyrinth of Ice
Sunday Sum Up: November 24, 2019
My friends are great. They just roll with it when I text them random questions, such as this: "Are grapes berries?" I asked a friend this question on Tuesday. Her initial response was, "I wouldn't consider them berries", and so I declared them to be 'fruit, en masse'. When we got together on Wednesday (not … Continue reading Sunday Sum Up: November 24, 2019
Sunday Sum-Up, November 10, 2019
My week's end was disrupted by cats. Instead of the quiet night which I was hoping for on Friday, I spent half the evening trying to separate Sidney and Mina. They were behaving like unruly children. Sidney kept hissing and swiping at Mina, even seeking her out to growl at her while she was hiding … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up, November 10, 2019
Book Review: Snow
Snow: A Scientific and Cultural Exploration by Giles Whittell Science 256 pages Expected publication date November 19, 2019, by Atria Books Though much of the world's population lives in areas that do not receive much, if any, natural snow, the human race has an obsession with the white stuff. We like to slide down … Continue reading Book Review: Snow
Book Review: The Twenty-Ninth Day
The Twenty-Ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra By Alex Messenger Memoir 272 pages Expected publication date: November 12, 2019, by Blackstone Publishing At seventeen, Alex Messenger was already an accomplished wilderness traveler. He had hiked and canoed through forests and mountains across the northern United States and into Canada, and so … Continue reading Book Review: The Twenty-Ninth Day
Book Review: Lethal Pursuit
Lethal Pursuit (Barker and Llewellyn #11) by Will Thomas Mystery 320 pages Expected publication November 12, 2019, by Minotaur Books Changes are afoot in the lives of Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewellyn. Barker is still healing from the injuries he received in the previous book and can't pound the pavement like he once did, while … Continue reading Book Review: Lethal Pursuit
Book Review: The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols
The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols: Adapted from the Journals of John H. Watson, M.D. by Nicholas Meyer Mystery 256 pages Expected publication date October 15, 2019, by Minotaur Books A good pastiche is one that captures the spirit of the material it is based upon and then adds to it, as writers like Jo … Continue reading Book Review: The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols
