Kara Cooney’s volume, When Women Ruled the World, explores the lives and regimes of six female pharaohs. I think this book can best be summed up by this paragraph in the introduction: In the fifth century B.C., thousands of years after her lifetime, the Greek historian Herodotus wrote about a certain Nitocris, a queen whose husband-brother …
There’s something about pasta and tomato sauce and cheese that makes for a supremely delicious combination. When I was offered the opportunity to review National Geographic and America’s Test Kitchen’s Tasting Italy, I was thrilled. Not only am I a long-time subscriber to Cook’s Magazine, This cookbooks-meets-travel-journalism book does not disappoint. Recipes are organized by region. Liguria’s section …
Bullies. I was bullied pretty ruthlessly, particularly in junior high. In high school, it wasn’t as bad because I was pretty focused on just getting what I needed to do done, and getting out as soon as possible, so I graduated shortly after my 17th birthday. I started junior college the next semester, and I …
Every household should have an up-to-date-atlas, especially if that household is a homeschooling household. Recently, I received National Geographic’s Visual Atlas of the World to review on this blog. The book is rather large (as an atlas should be) and it comes with a slip box to help keep it looking nice. In addition to containing many …
Do you have a travel bucket list? I do, but it’s non-specific. It would be cool to go to see a baseball game in every major league ballpark. I’d love to do one of many running vacations that are out there. It would be awesome to go to Alsace, France and read the newspaper there …
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What do you do when you lose your partner in life? That’s the question asked in Anne Leigh Parrish’s The Amendment. Main character Lavinia Starkhurst loses her husband in a freak accident. She then decides to go on a road trip on a bit of a whim to see all the things she hadn’t seen before …
Sometimes, you need a novel that will be not only a fun read, but one that leads to some insight into the human condition. In Elizabeth Isaac’s The Scythian Trials, Part dystopia, part science fiction, The Scythian Trials focuses on a strong female main character, Anya Thalestris. Not only is she one of the strongest and smartest, but …
In Sweta Srivastava Vikram’s novel, Louisiana Catch, Ahana has fled her mother’s death – taking her from New Delhi to New Orleans. She’s working to increase awareness about violence against women. While she works on this project at an Annual Conference, she meets Rohan Brady. At her support group, she meets Jay Dubois. Soon, she finds …
They say you can never go home again. Whether that’s actually true or not, one of the big fiction tropes I see a lot is the story of someone who has made a successful life for himself or herself elsewhere in the world, but now finds that it’s time to return home for some reason …
