“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
O.K. Whatever. As everyone else seems to be on the “let’s go backwards” train, I thought I’d join in :o) I don’t have time to give you all the links but you can search here for (if you want)… Giordano Bruno Elizabeth the F1RST Tudor Dame Frances Yates Edmund Spenser Faerie Queene 16th century Tewdwr/Tudor […]
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Yesterday, I was given a VERY PUBLIC shout down by some thing (the same creepy wannabe) in a live chat about the herb feverfew and just how brilliant it is for migraines. I told a true….TRUE story about MY mother and still got maligned and dismissed and……! Whatever. I bowed out because I KNEW that […]
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Crafting likable, interesting characters is a balancing act, and finding that perfect mix of strengths and weaknesses can be difficult. But the task has become easier thanks to The Negative Trait Thesaurus. Through its flaw-centric exploration of character arc, motivation, emotional wounds, and basic needs, writers will learn which flaws make the most sense for their […]
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Roger Bore. Move on. Not an Ian Fleming HERO. IMHumbleO Carly Simon. Singing. Yay And – how could I have forgotten this one? Shame on me! Wikyuk : George Baker George. Baker. Inspector. Wexford. In… The Spy who Loved Me. I had NO I-deer that he was born in Varna, Bulgaria. SMH. P.S. I may […]
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Yes. A mess. But, in my defence, only half the disorder is mine. The room has been taken over by others as an office :o( #DoNOTShootTheMessenger?
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I’ve never claimed to be perfect. GB : 2nd June 2020 I have FINALLY got all my Kindle books back. Gritted teeth vibe. Only to find out that I’d made a mistake in the post linked above. It wasn’t a single tulip. It was a bunch of tulips. SMH. But I did write that scene […]
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56 pages of sources. 56! And about half of them in Spanish or Latin or…? That’ll teach me NOT to read the end of the book first :o(
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No word of a lie – I listened to this book (again) last night. Himself is still on ER. Got called out twice last night. Was given until 12pm today to recover sleep. Came home at 10 past 4. Left home at quarter past 4. Another Emergency Rescue. Anyway. Back to Scotland. A Charming Man […]
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I am so far beyond caring that Marina Warner is a “MS” Historian. I’ve loved all her books for many years. And every single time I re-read them, I learn even more! From 1861 to 1908 a woman, the Empress Dowager Tz’u-hsi, born the daughter of a minor mandarin, held the supreme power in China. […]
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OK. So! I’ll bank this in the vast vault of “things that I never knew.” Did Conan Doyle KNOW this story and use it to create HIS “Napoleon of Crime” aka Jim Moriarty ? ? ?
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OMG. I read this book as a teenager. It was one that Nan had borrowed from the library. Jimenez? The Infidel Across a land seething with mortal strife and religious conflict, Jimena Gomez begins the journey from cloistered gentility to passionate courage. Ordered to marry the bold, rebellious warrior who slayed her father – and […]
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The image above is part of my “how the fluff do I categorise these?” shelf. I am NOT a Librarian. And I find the Dewey Library System far too restrictive. I think just about every shelf is named as “HTF do I cat these?” Heyho The Pickled book is interesting. We may not give much […]
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Hidden History Research 