The turn of a new year is as good a time as any to revisit our plans and perhaps read a horoscope or two. For some people these predictions are literal. Others find it to be an amusement but nothing more. This book asserts nothing about Nostradamus’s ability or even prognosticators in general. Instead, Gerson…
REVIEW: SOUNDINGS by Hali Felt
I’d never heard of Marie Tharp. The only woman I’d ever heard of remotely related to anything to do with the bottom of the ocean was a woman in a portrait at my parents-in-law’s house. She was named Nannie (Maury) Herndon. A member of my husband’s ancestors, her father was an oceanographer and was the…
REVIEW: THE WOMAN BEFORE WALLIS by Andrew Rose
Before Edward took up with American socialite Wallis Simpson, before he gave up the crown and eschewed his duties as the King of England, the young prince was involved in an even more scandalous relationship. A antsy and angsty Prince is assigned to duty in France during WWI. Seeing as he was poised to take…
ARMCHAIR BEA: Ethics & Non-Fiction
Ah… the tricky question of ethics. Today Armchair BEA tackles: Do you have recommendations to new bloggers to ensure credit is given to whom/where credit is due? Have you had an experience with plagiarism? How did you deal with it? What are the guidelines as bloggers that we must follow? Giving credit is really easy…
REVIEW: LADY AT THE O.K. CORRAL by Ann Kirschner
I must admit – I never knew that Wyatt Earp was married. He was, by most accounts, a dashing and magnetic man. But for every larger-than-life aspect of his legend, there was Josephine (Marcus) Earp. Daughter of a Jewish family, she struggled to find her own identity in Victorian Era America. When one could not…