Lily Fairbairn
Half-elven
Aug 4 2020, 3:43pm
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It's the granddaughter's birthday reading thread!
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My oldest granddaughter turned fourteen on Saturday. Whew! And I was fortunate enough to see her slightly younger cousin, my middle granddaughter, last week. When did these cute-as-a-button babies turn into beautiful, intelligent young women? I sure hope the world will be in better shape for them when they're adults. On my ereader, I finished Fire From Heaven, the first in Mary Renault's Alexander the Great trilogy. Even though all the names, relationships, and intrigues confused me a bit, still I found the book to be a brilliant historical novel. I've opened the first page of the next book, The Persian Boy, but I'm going to wait to read it until I've finished the four books coming in from the library today or tomorrow. I'm still listening to the Great Courses audio, Food: A Cultural Culinary History, and am up to the 17th century. The lecturer is now talking about the indigenous foodways of the Americas, Africa, and Australia and how exploration and trade led to foods spreading all over the world and shaping modern cuisines. I also listened to a few minutes in the first story in Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Mr. Quin, in which the title character solves various mysteries. So far it's a rather spooky country house story. So what have you been reading as you stay safe?
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow....
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