The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
Yep Twilight. I attended a wonderful annual party yesterday, hosted by some of my favorite and most bookish friends. Â They believe New Years Day to be a useless holiday and so invented the annual white-elephant book exchange. Â We gather with our most awful books wrapped in leftover Christmas paper and do the white-elephant thing. Â And [...]
It’s nothing earth-shattering, but I enjoyed Samuel Shellabarger’s Tolbecken last night. Â Shellabarger wrote historical novels like Captain from Castille and I’ve enjoyed his books as pleasant distractions with fun plotlines and thoughtful treatment of historical ideas and events. Â Tolbecken is one of his better books (and they are all good stuff), and I found myself [...]