Saturday, May 23, 2020

Quarantine Edition Part 10:

Maybe picking a 600 page book and a couple of 300 pages books at once wasn't the best way to keep my book numbers up.

Mercia: A Captivating Guide to an Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of England and the Invasions of the Vikings during the 9th Century by Captivating History
Non-fiction: History, E-book
The history of the Mercia, the kingdom located in what is now the UK.  It includes maps.

Oscar Wilde: A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History
Non-fiction: History, Biography, E-book
A short biography of Oscar Wilde.

Mayflower: A History From Beginning to End by Hourly History
Non-Fiction: History, E-Book
A short history of the most famous voyage of the Mayflower as well as the Pilgrims that were on the ship.

American Legends: The Life of Humphrey Bogart by Charles River Editors
Non-fiction: History, Biography, E-book
Humphrey Bogart started his career as a nude model, for baby food. This quick biography coveres much of his life, but mostly his personal relationships and how he became a movie star.

In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire
Fiction: YA, fantasy, 204 pages
1st, this author's books need to be easier to find which number they are in a series.  As I keep reading them out of order as a quick look of the covers doesn't denote that it is a series.  But this book is a prequel, even if it is book 4 in the series, so it does do a good job of explaining the important things.  Lundy is a girl who is lonely. (Also she gets points from me for reading a series of books I loved when younger, but most people don't know.) Her father is the principle of her school, and she doesn't have friends.  She finds a tree with a door in it where there wasn't any tree with or without a door before.  She opens it and travels down a hallway with a few rules listed in it that opens to the Goblin Market, a place made for people like her.




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