I'm looking for book recs. In particular, I'd like to read:
1) a historical piece of fiction taking place in Ancient Egypt!
2) a good nonfiction book about ancient egypt that would encompass religion, politics, and social dynamics.

Any takers? I started bumping around on amazon, but figured that I'd canvas my learned friends!

"The virtues, she once explained to me, are like bonnets: the very ones that look best on other people may not happen to suit one's own particular style; and, she added, with a slight deflection of metaphor, that none of the ready-made virtues ever had fitted her: they all pinched somewhere, and she'd given up trying to wear them ( Read more... )

They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon ( Read more... )

First of all, let me tell you how ardently I admire and adore the new music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel. This should be a more bitter pill to swallow, as I really really really loved Esa-Pekka Salonen with his gorgeous floppy hair and interesting pieces, and cursed his wanting to devote more time to his career as ( Read more... )

( Weekend roundup )

I don't usually go into WHY I enjoy the books I do, but when I set out to write this entry, I found myself brimming over with ideas.

( Two books that have made me think about writing )

Tagged by sansceo:

1. One book that changed your life: Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

2. One book that you've read more than once: Daring to Dream by Nora Roberts

3. One book you'd want on a desert island: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

4. One book that made you laugh: Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot ( Read more... )

( Joshua Tree was fun. )