I'm a history buff - I love reading about the middle ages, the distant past, the wild west. I've read about British colonial women in India, weather in the dark ages, the impact of diseases on culture and civilization, ancient Israel, and early European explorers in South America and Africa. All of which you will …
Continue reading 365 Books: Cartoon History of the Universe by Larry Gonick
At Thanksgiving we went to visit my sister in Reno. We arrived a few days early, hit Death Valley - totally awesomely beautiful - then followed Google Maps directions through a bunch of sagebrush and really, really small towns in the middle of absolutely nowhere.... It got darker and darker, and started to rain, and …
There's something about a scary story that is improved by the chance that it just - might - be true. That maybe it happened to a friend - or to a friend of a friend - that gives it power that makes it believable. But really, if you do the research, as Jan Harold Brunvand …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Vanishing Hitchhiker by Jan Harold Brunvand
Believe it or not, I was a cheerleader in junior high. I was actually a cheerleader for peewee football and then I was a songleader for my school's team. I'm not sure what the difference between cheerleaders and songleaders was supposed to be. In the yearbook, the cheerleaders (8th graders all), are perfectly stacked in …
Continue reading 365 Books: One Knee Equals Two Feet by John Madden
Who is your favorite fairy tale princess? I'm kind of partial the wife in Bluebeard. But not the one who cowered and wept and waited for her brothers to rescue her. The original one, who found out what was up before she married him, then stood up at her wedding feast and exposed him for …
Continue reading 365 Books: Don’t Bet on the Prince by Jack Zipes
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