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Week of Enchantment: Epic? Nay, MAMMOTH!
The natural history museum in downtown Albuquerque is monstrously big, and after arriving at its service doors I made my way around the campus (“building” does not suffice), admiring the way the landscape was sculpted and filled with plants to … Continue reading
Week of Enchantment: Takin’ that Left Turn at Albuquerque
Ever since I arrived in Albuequerque, I’d be haunted by the constant din of traffic. I entered town in the middle of it, and remained surrounded by it. It never ceased — even at three am in the morning, I’d … Continue reading
The Sword of Summer
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer© 2015 Rick Riordan491 pages Magnus Chase is the Boy Who Lived. As a youngster he witnessed his mother sacrifice herself for him, dying at the hands of some evil … Continue reading
"They cannot conquer forever!" said Frodo
Lewis expressed a similar thought in his nonfiction, The Weight of Glory: “A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion; to ignore the subject may be fatal cowardice for one … Continue reading
World War Z
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War© 2006 Max Brooks352 pages Reading Night of the Living Trekkies put me in the mood for more weird fiction, and World War Z fits the bill! Fictional, but not a … Continue reading
Week of Enchantment: Nerd on Pilgrimage
I left Las Cruces in the early morning, joining the interstate with no problem at all. This was, I realized with a sigh, my last Epic Drive. At some point today I would arrive in Albuquerque, and from there I … Continue reading
Week of Enchantment: Las Cruces
That, dear readers, is always a promising way to start the day. I stayed at the Big Chile Inn, an older place formerly run by a family but now owned by a corporation. Its interior courtyard was lush, and … Continue reading
Katherine of Aragon
Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen© 2016 Alison Weir624 pages Mention the Tudor court, and invariably people think of Henry VIII and his famed mistress, Anne Boleyn. But the wife Henry abandoned came from a far more interesting family. Catherine … Continue reading
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Tagged Alison Weir, Britain, historical fiction, Tudor England, women
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Timeless Mexico
Timeless Mexico436 pages© 1944 Hudson Strode My knowledge of Mexico consists of a few events with a great many spaces in between: Aztecs, Cortes, independence, war with Texas, Pancho Villa, the PRI, and cartel warfare encapsulate my paltry knowledge. I … Continue reading
This week: MURDER! and leftovers
From The Montgomery Advertiser. Last night I enjoyed the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s final performance of “The Mousetrap”, based off of Christie’s “Three Blind Mice”. (The play is still running in the west end, of course, sixty four years and counting…) … Continue reading
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