I first heard about The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood in a high school English class....at least I think it was, maybe it was undergrad? Anyway, the point is I have been meaning to read this book for a long time and for some reason never quite got around to it (I know, I know!)… Continue reading Review: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
If you follow me on social media, you probably know that other than History, I'm very into everything Star Wars. And if you didn't know that - well now you do. I received Carrie Fisher's The Princess Diarist as a Christmas gift and I was eager to dive into it for any interesting tidbits of Carrie's… Continue reading Review: The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
At the beginning of 2016, I found out that every year, filmmaker Steven Soderbergh makes a list of everything he watched, read, and listened to that year. So, I decided to do the same...partly as an experiment to see if I could keep up with updating a list every day. Turns out I could! Mine… Continue reading 2016 Media Consumption
[Some spoilers below...but it's also history, so is it really a spoiler...?] Victoria: A Novel of a Young Queen by Daisy Goodwin is the companion novel to the new Victoria TV series (already out in the UK, out in the US in Jan). Daisy Goodwin also wrote the TV series, but I believe the first season extends… Continue reading Review: Victoria: A Novel of a Young Queen by Daisy Goodwin
[Minor spoilers] Catalyst makes for a good set-up to Rouge One; I certainly feel like I will have the upper hand in understanding the chain of events in why things start out the way they do when I see the movie. The prose is middle grade in order to be commercial, I get that, but… Continue reading Review: Catalyst – A Rogue One Novel by James Luceno
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Amazon blurb: From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure… Continue reading Review: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Ridley Creek State Park is only 15 minutes from my apartment, and holds within it the Colonial Plantation featured in a previous post. With miles of trails to hike, Ridley Creek has many still-occupied 18th century farmhouses (oh how I want one,) as well as ruins of ones that did not survive the ages. The ruins… Continue reading Ridley Creek State Park: 18th Century Charm
I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power… Continue reading Wise words for Election Day!
I was a bit apprehensive to read a YA book, being a woman of almost 30, but I did anyway because I love Ahsoka Tano and Star Wars. If you are one the fence about reading YA as an adult, please don't hesitate to buy and read this book. While the language is clean and… Continue reading Star Wars: Ahsoka by E.K. Johnston (spoiler-free review)
In an effort to cross more local historical sites off my list, I finally ventured over to Brandywine Battlefield. The parcel of land sequestered for the battlefield is actually quite small, where in reality the battle was far more spread out (the Old Kennett Meetinghouse is a 10 minute drive from Brandywine battlefield). I had… Continue reading Brandywine Battlefield
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