A group of “book women” on horseback in Hindman, Kentucky, 1940. Kentucky Library and Archives They were known as the “book women.” They would saddle up, usually at dawn, to pick their way along snowy hillsides and through muddy creeks with a simple goal: to deliver reading ...
Scythian was an old Iranic language, and 2,700 years ago, speakers of the language were active around Asia on horseback. Beckwith makes the case that this was the largest empire the world had seen up to that point; even if you disagree it's an interesting read about a period many of ...
Your Escape Into A Good Book Travel Agent About the Author Ava Burke (Amber Camp) lives in Northwest Arkansas with her family and a menagerie of animals. When she’s not writing, she’s usually reading, but she also enjoys hiking, kayaking, and horseback riding. Haunting and Homicide Am...
men and women, on horseback. Najud, her husband, was near the front, but the rest of her companions, as new to the caravan as she was, chattered excitedly about their first look at a Kigali city, its yellow brick golden in the light from the west, varied by ...
The only book I’ve written (so far) in which the narrator is a woman. A story of the legendary female warriors who fought on horseback with the bow and the pelekus, the double-bladed throwing axe. Their war cry, it was said, turned men’s knees to jelly. ...
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Chandler had real problems writing women and more than one of the Marlowe books are ruined by the totally implausible female characters. This one shows his strengths, being primarily about male friendship. Willa Cather, The Professor’s House. I’ve also been working my way through Cather, ...
Set on the cancer ward of an unnamed women’s hospital on the western edge of London, the book takes us through two days on the ward as seen by its head nurse (Bright, though she never identifies herself in the book). There are old women and young, some there just for an exam or...
i have read many books in the past few months. i love to read, and with covid and my school being closed, i have had the opportunity to read a bit more. one book that has stuck out in my mind was sarah broom’s “the yellow house.” i could not stop thinking about it even ...
“History ain’t in a book, especially when it comes to folks like us. History is in the lives we lived and the stories we tell each other about those lives.” When Zora Neale Hurston and her best friend, Carrie Brown, discover that the town mute can speak after all, they think they...