Thus did I find Ashes Under Water a useful complement to the aforementioned technical works, and thus do I close my chronicles of this most interesting year.
(Cross-posted to Cold Spring Shops.)
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book opens with the heroine, Margaret Hale, being uprooted from her idyllic…
Frozen Heat by Richard Castle My rating: 3 of 5 stars And barely a three star at that. To be fair, I'm not really the best audience for this…
The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the second of L. Frank Baum's Oz book series, and features some…