I decided to read this book because I saw a description of Uprooted, and thought it looked interesting, but I hadn’t read anything else by Naomi Novik, so I started with this series. I’m glad I did. This book is set during the Napoleonic Wars but has dragons that form an Aerial Corps There are many more dragons on the French side than the British side, so when Captain Will Laurence discovers a egg that is about to hatch aboard a French ship he and […]
Taking the Romance out of the Victorian Era
I picked this book based on a recommendation from NPR’s Book Concierge for 2014., under the category For History Lovers. It’s a very long, very detailed book. I did some research on the author afterwards and learned that she did live the life of a Victorian for a BBC show called Victorian Farm. So when she talks about what it was like to wear period clothes and use a scythe, she had that experience for a year. The book discusses everything from the morning wash […]
What does it really mean to be happy?
Seconds is a stand-alone graphic novel by the author of the Scott Pilgrim series. The story centers on Katie, about to turn 30, who ran the kitchen of a very successful restaurant, who has dreams of owning her own restaurant. So she forms a partnership with a man and buys a building that needs a lot of work. The construction is taking a long time, which makes her unhappy. The restaurant she ran is slowly phasing her out and although she no longer works there, […]
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