Hi Girls
i just started reading a wonderful book " The Story of Edgar Sawtelle"- by David Wroblewski . Really enjoying it- best way to describe it- Hamlet in Wisconsin. I am very much a book worm.
Cherry
a good book
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CherryLynn
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a good book
Just starting to explore my feminine nature- am very shy meek and demure. Addicted to looking and acting ladylike. Still have so many questions about exactly who I am- have so many mixed emotions about my gender issues.
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I love my books - got over 3000.
Its hard to choose a favourite but Alfred Bester's Tiger! Tiger! aka The Stars My Destination has to be on everyone's list
http://www.amazon.com/Stars-My-Destinat ... 400&sr=8-1
Its hard to choose a favourite but Alfred Bester's Tiger! Tiger! aka The Stars My Destination has to be on everyone's list
http://www.amazon.com/Stars-My-Destinat ... 400&sr=8-1
Susan
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I know some things.
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Hi all. I thought I might share a bit about a book I have been reading a few chapters a night for the last week or so. I am nearly through, and already regretting it. I would heartily recommend the book, if for nothing else as a true measure of a real woman.
The name of the book is "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" by Isabella L. Bird. The current edition is available through the University of Oklahoma Press, in Norman, OK (and probably Amazon). The ISBN:0-806-1328-6; Library of Congress Catalog Number: 60-8748
The book is a record of a rapidly changing west after the Civil War ( a term I still consider an oxymoron -- Really! A Civil war?). Her travels were made during the autumn and early winter of 1873 on her way back to England from the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii).
She was born in 1831 and certainly became one of the more traveled ladies of the nineteenth century. Her travels included China, Canada, the Mediteranean, seven months in Japan and five months in the Malay penninsula, and in 1889, Indian and Tibet, and Khurdistan. She attempted to set up hospitals in a number of locations, sometimes succeeding and sometimes being opposed by governments such as the Turkish Government. She was successful in establishing a total of 5 in various countrys, including one in India for women. She supported missions for their humanitarian work, and decried the destruction of cultures that had served their population well for thousands of years at the same time, all in the name of commerce.
Even in her mid sixties this indefatigable woman traveled again over a 15 month period to Canada, Japan, Korea, and China, and covered 8,000 miles in China alone. Most of her travels were unaccompanied by another English person other by casual encounter, and she was mainly in the presence of common people and her guides, often people who would have been viewed with disdain by her contemporaries, but not by her.
She died at age 73, and this is only one of a number of books from the collection of letters she wrote to her sister. This particular book has been through 8 printings, at least.
Her pen is eloquent in her narratives, providing in detail the flavor of the beauty and the mundane she found in the environment, and so well did she describe what she saw, she was elected to the Royal Geographical Society. Though she did not have a camera on this journey, she learned photography and dragged the cumbersome cameras of the day with her on subsequent journeys.
This book takes you on a journey from Lake Tahoe to Estes Park, Colorado, now a common destination for tourists. It was a bit more difficult to get there for her, and she did most of it on the back of a horse. She experienced encounters with grizzly bears, and with tough men and women that might tax our "civilized" abilities to understand.
One tough, and I think, wonderful lady given her ability to do only a limited amount of judging of the people she found, and that through the screen of her upbringing and a guage of their happiness or lack of it.
The name of the book is "A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" by Isabella L. Bird. The current edition is available through the University of Oklahoma Press, in Norman, OK (and probably Amazon). The ISBN:0-806-1328-6; Library of Congress Catalog Number: 60-8748
The book is a record of a rapidly changing west after the Civil War ( a term I still consider an oxymoron -- Really! A Civil war?). Her travels were made during the autumn and early winter of 1873 on her way back to England from the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii).
She was born in 1831 and certainly became one of the more traveled ladies of the nineteenth century. Her travels included China, Canada, the Mediteranean, seven months in Japan and five months in the Malay penninsula, and in 1889, Indian and Tibet, and Khurdistan. She attempted to set up hospitals in a number of locations, sometimes succeeding and sometimes being opposed by governments such as the Turkish Government. She was successful in establishing a total of 5 in various countrys, including one in India for women. She supported missions for their humanitarian work, and decried the destruction of cultures that had served their population well for thousands of years at the same time, all in the name of commerce.
Even in her mid sixties this indefatigable woman traveled again over a 15 month period to Canada, Japan, Korea, and China, and covered 8,000 miles in China alone. Most of her travels were unaccompanied by another English person other by casual encounter, and she was mainly in the presence of common people and her guides, often people who would have been viewed with disdain by her contemporaries, but not by her.
She died at age 73, and this is only one of a number of books from the collection of letters she wrote to her sister. This particular book has been through 8 printings, at least.
Her pen is eloquent in her narratives, providing in detail the flavor of the beauty and the mundane she found in the environment, and so well did she describe what she saw, she was elected to the Royal Geographical Society. Though she did not have a camera on this journey, she learned photography and dragged the cumbersome cameras of the day with her on subsequent journeys.
This book takes you on a journey from Lake Tahoe to Estes Park, Colorado, now a common destination for tourists. It was a bit more difficult to get there for her, and she did most of it on the back of a horse. She experienced encounters with grizzly bears, and with tough men and women that might tax our "civilized" abilities to understand.
One tough, and I think, wonderful lady given her ability to do only a limited amount of judging of the people she found, and that through the screen of her upbringing and a guage of their happiness or lack of it.
"It’s not given to anyone to have no regrets; only to decide, through the choices we make, which regrets we’ll have,"
David Weber – In Fury Born
David Weber – In Fury Born