Happy Friday (best day of the week)! Here's another recent acquistion for our personal library. Our son gave me this for my birthday.
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Happy Friday (best day of the week)! Here's another recent acquistion for our personal library. Our son gave me this for my birthday.
pickThis was a great overview of Scotland. Very to the point of who was king/queen and when. It highlights the major players in Scotland.
Reading this while heading to the Tropic of Capricorn. Worlds apart!
pickRizzo, by Denise Mina (2021)
Premise: A novella reconstructing the events of an attempted palace coup in in the court of Mary Queen of Scots in 1566, revolving around the assassination of her private secretary, David Rizzio.
Review: I really enjoyed this, and, I think, all the more for its brevity. Cont.
pickThis book looks at the tiny, remote culture of St Kilda, an outer Hebridean island group evacuated of its human population in the 1930s. It‘s a very interesting read told in an engaging fashion with little bits of humor here and there. I really enjoyed it and would love to visit there someday.
