Category: Literature
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Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey (1912)
This was a very well written book. It is a classic western. The description of the various scenes was its strong point. (I also learned some things like how milling can stop a stampede and wonder if the term is related to a circular millstone with lines that turn in on themselves.) However, the characters…
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The Iron Marshal (L’Amour 1979)
I have often seen and heard about them but I have never read any of Louis L’Amour’s books. I had to travel with some long flights and airport layovers ahead of me so I picked up one to read on the trip. Just speaking for this one and not the series in general, it is…
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1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed (Cline & Fawkes 2024)
I picked up this book, 1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed (2024) by E. H. Cline and G. Fawkes, in an airport bookstore because it looked like it might be interesting and different from the type of books I usually read. This is a graphic novel version of 1177 B.C.: The…
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Ancillary Sword (Leckie 2014)
I just finished Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (2014). It is the sequel to Ancillary Justice. This second book has many of the same characters and is in the same overall setting but is quite different from the first one. It is much more character-focused, and honestly, I found it to be a bit tedious…
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An Illustrated Kalevala (Mäkinen 2020)
My daughter loves traditional folktales. I want to expose my children to work from a broad range of cultures. We are also part Finnish on my father’s side, which is a part of our ancestry that I know perhaps the least about. So, I got this illustrated Kalevala for one of the next books to…