pickFrench noblewoman Marguerite de la Rocque de Roberval (1515--1542) has always led a quiet life, but her guardian spends her fortune and sells her home. His plan is another prosperous voyage to “New France.” This time he takes Marguerite with him. After he discovers Marguerite‘s rebellion he strands her with a lover and her nurse. Although slow to start her tale is thrilling and satisfying. It is a 4/5 ⭐️ read and a 2025 favorite.
I‘m sad to finish this 7-book post-apocalyptic series but I loved seeing the transformation of each character, the formed relationships, their resilience, and the found-family they discovered amongst each other.
#postapocalyptic #survival #suspense #dystopia #actionpacked #foundfamily
pickLost at Windy River is the amazing true story of the nine days the author‘s grandmother was lost by herself in the wilderness of Alberta in the 1940s. Isle was thirteen at the time and it was, of course, winter. She was incredibly resourceful and used Traditional Indigenous Knowledge to survive. This book is also an opportunity for her to reclaim and tell her own story after it became well known and was shared by someone else.
pickLoved this book, fascinating re-imagining of a real historical event, the abandoning of a young woman on an island off Canada during early French attempts at colonisation.
Apparently her house is for sale!
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We stood together, and I said, "I realize now-"
"What?" Auguste said.
"How easy my life has been."
Regretfully, Auguste said, "You have been rich, comfortable, and safe."
"No, I was never safe." My own words startled me, but they were true. If I was in danger here, so I had been at home. If I could not choose my dwelling place, that had been the case before. Following Auguste out. I thought. If we live in a cave, at least it will be ours only.
I never knew my mother. She died the night that I was born, and so we passed each other in the dark.
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pickTwo old women was an excellent story passed down from generation to generation. A short fast paced book. 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Huh?” I say, not because I didn‘t hear her, but because I‘m not ready to go there.”
-I poke fun of my husband for doing this when he doesn‘t want to answer me. “Huh?” Some people will say “hmm?” Or “What‘s that?” Drives me nuts lol you heard me don‘t pretend you didn‘t!
You‘ve got to do something you‘ve never done, to have something you‘ve never had.
As a kid, you idolize your parents. You think they‘re perfect, because they‘re the yardstick by which you measure the rest of the world, and yourself. Then as teenager, they just piss you off, because you realize that not only are they not perfect, but they may be even a little more screwed up than you. But there‘s that moment when you realize they‘re not superheroes, or villains. They‘re painfully, unforgivable human.
