If Nana had known about Talas BoregiR...
When my brother and I were children we spent most weekdays with my grandmother while our parents were off earning a living. This was always an adventure because at 4 feet 11 inches tall Nana was (and is) a force to be reckoned with. You never knew what a day with her would bring: We played practical...
Goldilocks in the Kitchen...
When it comes to creating my own recipes I often feel like a mad scientist in Goldilocks’ kitchen. Eventually dishes turn out “just right,” but getting there is an exercise in everything from funny face making to, on occasion, minor explosions.
Like that time, about a year ago, when...
A Taste of Yellow...
I was a naughty girl yesterday. I should have been holed up in my apartment finishing my last paper and preparing for my exam on Thursday, but I played hooky with my husband and went to see ‘Spider-Man 3′ instead. I resisted for a while, all the way to the theatre in fact, but then a box...
And the winners are…...
Posted by Ari in Books on 05 4th, 2007 | 36 Comments
Thank you to everyone who commented on the last entry; you made studying so much more enjoyable by giving me seventy-seven little moments where procrastination was almost possible. Here I’d be, sitting at my desk writing out Hebrew verb tables (because my life is THAT exciting) when Gmail would...
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride By Daniel James Brown
It's not often that a history book will compel me to set all my novels aside, but "The Indifferent Stars Above" certainly did. Within the first few pages I was spellbound. I had to know how Sarah, a young woman newly married to her childhood sweetheart, would end up on top of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the dead of winter, starving and forced to do unspeakable things in order to survive.
"The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride" tells the story of the Donner Party from the perspective of newlyweds Sarah Graves and Jay Fosdick. In April of 1846 the couple joined Sarah's family as they journeyed west from Illinois to the promised land of California. (Read the rest of this review...)
