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Post by Moe on Mar 1, 2019 13:19:51 GMT -5
Do school textbooks and essays count as books? I just read a biography written for children about Dr. Temple Grandin. The Girl Who Thought in Pictures by Julia Finley Mosca. Temple is a great role model for children and teachers so I liked learning about her for my college class. Absolutely! Temple Grandin is an amazing woman and role model, as you say
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Post by somnium on Mar 2, 2019 13:16:31 GMT -5
I've been reading The Nine Lives of Catseye Gomez- by Simon Hawke. It's a story told by a Private Investigator cat. A funny little night read.
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Post by Treecat on Mar 6, 2019 11:58:10 GMT -5
I am reading... probate records and wills, handwritten, dating from the 1820's through 1880's.. trying to sort out some family relationships during a time when birth certificates were not issued. The handwriting ranges from ornate to jumbled, and the scans can be good or bad. I am getting a headache and thanking God I took a genealogy workshop two weeks ago that focused on reading archaic records and microfilms. If I hadn't, I'd have a migraine.
Basically, when I have free time I'm searching through Ancestry.com and familysearch.org -- the google of dead people! lol!
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Post by Moe on Mar 6, 2019 14:27:37 GMT -5
I am reading... probate records and wills, handwritten, dating from the 1820's through 1880's.. trying to sort out some family relationships during a time when birth certificates were not issued. The handwriting ranges from ornate to jumbled, and the scans can be good or bad. I am getting a headache and thanking God I took a genealogy workshop two weeks ago that focused on reading archaic records and microfilms. If I hadn't, I'd have a migraine. Basically, when I have free time I'm searching through Ancestry.com and familysearch.org -- the google of dead people! lol! I have been tempted to do genealogy on the maternal side of my family at ancestry.ca, but have so far resisted, knowing that I will get hooked and spend way too much time searching for dead people
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Post by Moe on Mar 6, 2019 14:30:01 GMT -5
Educated,by Tara Westover - a true story.
"Tara Westover is an American author living in the UK. Born in Idaho to a father opposed to public education, she never attended school. She spent her days working in her father's junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother, a self-taught herbalist and midwife. She was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom, and after that first taste, she pursued learning for the next decade. She received a BA from Brigham Young University in 2008 and was subsequently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009, and in 2010 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. She returned to Cambridge, where she was awarded a PhD in history in 2014. "
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Post by Treecat on Mar 8, 2019 12:48:32 GMT -5
Michael, I haven't read Palin's book, but if you're interested in the Franklin expedition, I recommend Russell Potter's book, Finding Franklin, the Untold Story of a 165 Year Old Search. Another book is David C. Woodman's Unravelling the Franklin Mystery, the Inuit Testimony, and Pierre Berton's The Artic Grail, and Owen Beattie and John Geiger's Frozen in Time.
Potter, Woodman & Beattie are well known in the field of the history and current searches for remnants of the Franklin Expedition. A lot of Potter's book is taken from his excellent blog: Visions of the North (https://visionsnorth.blogspot.com/). Woodman looks into the Inuit stories and interviews which were often ignored. The loss of the expedition and the search afterward (and to today) is a fascinating subject. Woodman's book detailing the Inuit stories is real into-the-weeds reading, but I can't help feeling that if those Inuit had been taken more seriously in the early 1850's more records an artifacts would have been found on King William Island and possibly even a survivor or two.
Kerry--yeah, delving into genealogy is like diving down a rabbit hole! You have to be very methodical or you're all over the place--and I try to be and I still get sidelined. Lots of fun. Don't know how well familysearch.org covers Canada, but the site is free (register to use, but no spam mail to speak of). They have records that Ancestry doesn't have, and the two sites partner on some databases.
I was cleaning off a bookshelf the other day and came across a copy of Sue Grafton's E is for Evidence. Love the spareness of the prose and the crisp narrative, which are missing from a lot of her books post Q is for Quarry. But I sure do miss not reading Z is for Zero this year. RIP Sue--she was one of the best!
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Post by Moe on Mar 11, 2019 10:40:34 GMT -5
Does anyone else besides me love the novels of Isabel Allende? I just finished "Maya's Notebook," and I continue to make my way through every book she has published.
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Post by Moe on Apr 12, 2019 9:27:55 GMT -5
I really liked "The Alice Network" by Kate Quinn. It's based on the real-life women spies of WWI, something I knew very little about. In fact, I liked it so much that I am now reading one of her WWII books: The Huntress.
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Post by Riene on Apr 12, 2019 9:52:23 GMT -5
I really liked "The Alice Network" by Kate Quinn. It's based on the real-life women spies of WWI, something I knew very little about. In fact, I liked it so much that I am now reading one of her WWII books: The Huntress. I have The Alice Network on the pile by the desk here.
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Post by Moe on May 11, 2019 10:01:03 GMT -5
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Post by Riene on Jun 1, 2019 21:15:58 GMT -5
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Post by Moe on Jun 3, 2019 7:38:54 GMT -5
I've read it twice, it's on the "no throw away" list at home
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Post by ahrod56 on Jun 4, 2019 9:48:21 GMT -5
Revisiting good ol' Arthur C. Clarke - "Songs of Distant Earth" a must!
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Post by Riene on Jun 11, 2019 16:53:08 GMT -5
I really liked "The Alice Network" by Kate Quinn. It's based on the real-life women spies of WWI, something I knew very little about. I am halfway through this one and it's stressing me out. I know Eve is sure to be discovered at any minute and I am reluctant to start the next chapter.
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Post by Riene on Jun 11, 2019 16:55:40 GMT -5
North by Northhanger, by Carrie Bebris, the third in the series of Jane Austen follow-ups where Elizabeth and Darcy are happily married and solve mysteries. I've read #2 Suspense and Sensibility as well. Need to find #1.
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