Books read in August
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glacier_kittyMom and I are going to Anchorage tomorrow for Labor Day weekend (yay!), so I'm going to do the books I read for August today:
High Country by Nevada Barr (July 29-Aug. 1)
John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How a Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed America (Aug. 2-7. I loved reading this after going to Glacier Bay!)
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley (Aug. 7-10)
A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley (Aug. 11-15)
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley (Aug. 15-17)
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater (Aug. 18. One of the DUMBEST books I've ever read..no zoo would just casually send a penguin to someone's house in the mail!)
South with Scott by Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans (Aug. 21-27. And I thought "Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard" was a mouthful O_o)
Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley (Aug. 28-30)
Woohoo, 8 books, my second highest month! As you can see, I'm devouring Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce mysteries lol..every one of them has mentioned Antarctica and/or has described something as glacial. I love how spunky Flavia is too..impossible not to love :P
I wish people wouldn't talk so badly about Robert Falcon Scott..he did make mistakes, but after reading multiple sources, I can say for a fact Scott's men looked up to him, and Scott cared for them as well. I'm always amazed at how well everyone got along with each other. I've read other books about better prepared expeditions, but they just fell apart because the men hated each other. And how can I not love Cherry after reading something like this??: "A fifth pony was sacrificed to the hungry dogs--'Michael,' of whom Cherry-Garrard had only good words to say--but then the altruistic Cherry only spoke good words." *swoons* I love reading about Cherry from the other expedition members lol
It'll be nice to get out of town for a few days (when I asked Denise if I could go, she was like "yes, you work too much!" haha!) We're staying at a hotel at the float pond (we got the last room! Oops lol)..it seemed nice anyway. I'll hopefully get to meet![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Today's trivia: Great Britain briefly had a Cones Hotline in the early 1990s. It was a special number citizens could call if they saw traffic cones on the road for no reason. It was disbanded after three years because almost no one ever called it
High Country by Nevada Barr (July 29-Aug. 1)
John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How a Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed America (Aug. 2-7. I loved reading this after going to Glacier Bay!)
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley (Aug. 7-10)
A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley (Aug. 11-15)
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley (Aug. 15-17)
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater (Aug. 18. One of the DUMBEST books I've ever read..no zoo would just casually send a penguin to someone's house in the mail!)
South with Scott by Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans (Aug. 21-27. And I thought "Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard" was a mouthful O_o)
Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley (Aug. 28-30)
Woohoo, 8 books, my second highest month! As you can see, I'm devouring Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce mysteries lol..every one of them has mentioned Antarctica and/or has described something as glacial. I love how spunky Flavia is too..impossible not to love :P
I wish people wouldn't talk so badly about Robert Falcon Scott..he did make mistakes, but after reading multiple sources, I can say for a fact Scott's men looked up to him, and Scott cared for them as well. I'm always amazed at how well everyone got along with each other. I've read other books about better prepared expeditions, but they just fell apart because the men hated each other. And how can I not love Cherry after reading something like this??: "A fifth pony was sacrificed to the hungry dogs--'Michael,' of whom Cherry-Garrard had only good words to say--but then the altruistic Cherry only spoke good words." *swoons* I love reading about Cherry from the other expedition members lol
It'll be nice to get out of town for a few days (when I asked Denise if I could go, she was like "yes, you work too much!" haha!) We're staying at a hotel at the float pond (we got the last room! Oops lol)..it seemed nice anyway. I'll hopefully get to meet
hopefulspirit too!Today's trivia: Great Britain briefly had a Cones Hotline in the early 1990s. It was a special number citizens could call if they saw traffic cones on the road for no reason. It was disbanded after three years because almost no one ever called it
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Date: 2017-09-09 03:34 am (UTC)Yaay I'm glad your Anchorage trip was so nice :) I love having little weekend getaways like that to look forward to!