I recently read On the Edge of Gone, by the autistic author I wrote about a couple months ago..the main character was autistic as well, and here are the passages I could absolutely relate to lol ( Read more... )

I just finished Where'd You Go, Bernadette, and the letter from Bernadette to her daughter was too hilarious not to share (she goes to Antarctica and disappears, and her daughter and husband go there to find her). Here are my favorite passages ( Read more... )

I just finished With Scott: The Silver Lining by Griffith Taylor, and it was so much fun! Most of the expedition sounded like a huge party haha..so many things made me smile. :D They were such great guys. <3 Here are some excerpts from the book!

"[Cherry] came out from home on the Terra Nova, and was one of the landsmen who took kindly to a sailor ( Read more... )

A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym: The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling (July 29-Aug. 5). My suspicions of who the murderer was turned out to be true! I felt smart haha ( Read more... )

I just read Tryggve (apparently that's pronounced trig-vuh lol) Gran's diary from Antarctica, so here are some passages I'd like to share! (There are other members' diaries mixed in too ( Read more... )

Here is a passage from Emperors of the Ice that pretty much takes the words right out of my mouth (though probably more eloquently lol) as to why I love Scott's Expedition so much ( Read more... )

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OMGG I MUST SEE THIS MOVIE. I'd seen the poster for it, but didn't know what it was about till Tina posted a link on my Facebook. That is absolutely 100% my kind of movie lol..I got chills watching the trailer! It's also a book, which I might have seen before..I've heard of Charles Martin anyway. I'll have to see if I can find it lol

( here are some passages from alaska days with john muir )

Today at work Denise told me to go up front because someone wanted to see me..I thought it might be Ingrid back in town, so I was completely shocked when a customer presented me with a smoothie!! She said she appreciated all that I do..wow!! That was so kind of her..awww (another time a customer gave me an entire box of lens cleaning wipes for ( Read more... )

I just read a novel about the Scott expedition..different parts of the expedition were told by each member who went to the South Pole (Evans, Wilson, Scott, Birdie, Oates). I thought it was just going to be the march to the Pole, so I was pleasantly surprised when I saw it was about different parts of the expedition. Birdie's part was the journey ( Read more... )

I just finished a book about the lost Franklin Expedition, and in a way, it's even worse than The Ghosts of Cape Sabine (cannibalism D:). Every one of the 129 people died, either from lead poisoning, scurvy, etc (last year the wreck of one of their ships was finally found, which was exciting lol. I don't think all of the bodies were ever found). I' ( Read more... )