British Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland). The term is seldom used by people to refer to themselves (1,113,762 chose it in the 2008 American Community Survey) and is used primarily as a demo...
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted byThat Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is about ourspring 2024 reading plans. There are so many amazing books to choose from — it’s hard to narrow it down to just ten. But I’ll give it a try...
I’m still in the early chapters, but love getting swept away to Scotland… Ongoing reads: My longer-term reading commitments: Damn Rebel Bitches: The Women of the ’45by Maggie Craig: Over at Outlander Book Club, we’re doing a group read of this non-fiction book, discussing one chapte...
takes up his new parish, a poor, isolated patch on the remote Scottish island of Harris. He hopes to uncover the truth behind the legend of the selkies—mermaids or seal people who have been sighted off the north of Scotland for centuries. He has a more personal motive, too; family lege...
Scotland –The Bookshop on the Cornerby Jenny Colgan Israel –Waking Lionsby Ayelet Gundar-Goshen Norway –The Golden Compassby Philip Pullman Antarctica –South Pole Stationby Ashley Shelby Best speculative/science fiction:The sci-fi works I enjoyed most were: ...
starts falling apart, he happens to come across Jess and her kids stranded on the side of the road, and in a burst of do-gooder repentance, decides to offer to drive them to Scotland for a math Olympiad competition that may provide Tanzie with the funds to get to the school she needs...
Follow Gertie MacIntyre from knitting circle to air stewardess in this glorious and romantic summer novel set in Scotland’s windswept Northern isles, by beloved New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan. In the northernmost reaches of Scotland, where a string of little islands in the North...