1) What is the best book you've read?
i can't think of just one that's the best ever.

2) What is the worst book you've read?
one of the worst, if not the worst books i've read: the deus machine by pierre ouellette. an interesting concept according to the blurb on the back quickly turned WTF?! & i skipped/skimmed large parts of it just to get to the ( Read more... )

a little more than four years ago i decided that i was going to read a book on or about most every u.s. president. it's been a hard slog, because 1. it's hard to find books for like 1/3 of them & 2. they're mostly boring ( Read more... )

full title; Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

from goodreads;
September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city ( Read more... )

1) Have you read more books, or fewer books, this past year than usual?
about the same.

2) What book are you reading now (or what book did you read most recently)?
the most recent one was Anne Boleyn, A King's Obsession by Alison Weir. it'snot that good.

3) What is the best book you read in the past few years?
there's been a few; Charity and Sylvia: A ( Read more... )

( Any, any, green tea or black tea? )

from amazon;
Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly and wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she talks candidly about her brother and sisters, and their politics (while not being at ( Read more... )

from booklender.com (originaly from amazon?)

Charity and Sylvia is the intimate history of two ordinary women who lived in an extraordinary same-sex marriage during the early nineteenth century. Based on diaries, letters, and poetry, among other original documents, the research traces the women's lives in sharp detail. Charity Bryant was born in ( Read more... )

from amazon;Jessica Mitford, the great muckraking journalist, was part of a legendary English aristocratic family. Her sisters included Nancy, doyenne of the 1920s London smart set and a noted novelist and biographer; Diana, wife to the English fascist chief Sir Oswald Mosley; Unity, who fell head over in heels in love with Hitler; and Deborah, ( Read more... )

full title;
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle

from amazon;
Drawing on a rich store of materials from the archives of Highclere Castle, including diaries, letters, and photographs, the current Lady Carnarvon has written a transporting story of this fabled home on the brink of war. Much like her Masterpiece ( Read more... )

from amazon; This powerful novel transports readers to the breathtaking world of Out of Africa-1920s Kenya-and reveals the extraordinary adventures of Beryl Markham, a woman before her time. Brought to Kenya from England by pioneering parents dreaming of a new life on an African farm, Beryl is raised unconventionally, developing a fierce will and a ( Read more... )