bailedI'm not feeling this one right now. I suspect I added it to my TBR for my kids at some point because it's more their thing than mine. Maybe I'll revisit it at some point, but I'm setting it aside for now. One down for #Roll100! Not a very satisfying way to mark it off, but it does get it off my TBR.
Alexandria is a splendid city, with everything a sensible man can need. I daresay I shall end my life here, with- out ever again going far away. But when I remember the high hills, and a pass mounting to its unknown revelation, I will not think so. Even then, knowing the evil and the danger, knowing all I had known before, even then I felt it; ecstasy, prophecy, light.
As we marched, the road rising through bare uplands, I suppose there was no one in the Household who was not thinking, And what will become of me?
Sign me up for a babylonion spa...
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Because it is hot in Babylon, the bath is a pleasure-house, where one could spend all day; floored with marble from the west, with glazed walls, white flowers on blue. The bath is a spacious pool, whose lapis-blue tiles have gold fish impressed in them. There are pots with sweet shrubs and trees, changed at each season, jasmine and citron....
Latest bookclub book. 3 days to go, good job it's such a pageturner.
Volume 2 from the Little Free Library today and volume 3 from HPB. Ah gee, now I have to find matching volume 1
Onward, with Casey‘s help! I was gonna read A CHOICE OF DESTINIES in chunks, but I‘ve decided I‘ll probably power through it after all. While I‘m interested enough to keep going, I don‘t feel I‘m Scott‘s target audience. She‘s aimed the book at people keen on movement-focused military stories and/or who‘ve read so much fiction about Alexander the Great they can do without a ton of characterization. It‘s a bit disappointing, really.
Breakfast involved scrambled eggs with sriracha mayo, very bad coffee (I always just guess at how to use standard household coffee makers, and this time I guessed super wrong), and Melissa Scott‘s 1986 alternate history of Alexander the Great. So far it strikes me as very ideas-over-characters, which isn‘t my thing, but I often find that her books begin slow yet build to something truly interesting. Hopefully that‘s also the case here.
Teams message with classics degree-holding coworker:
ME - What‘s a laconophile?
ME - Oh, he digs Spartans.
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THEM - Probably a jerk. That‘s how it tends to go with Classics guys like him.
ME - I appreciate your learnéd insight.
THEM - Sparta guys are another version of WWII fanboys.
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I didn‘t love this book.
#winterreadathondailychallenge Day 5
My fave Disney movie is Beauty and the Beast. Not only did it have an amazing soundtrack, I loved that Belle was a big reader.
One of my fave early childhood books was the tagged, which is sadly out of print. 😔 I loved this story about Alexander, an alligator, who lives with an old friendly woman in a house on a hill with a cat, a magical mouse, and a yak.
