Cinnamon-Nutmeg French Toast with Strawb...
Posted by Ari in Breakfast on 06 28th, 2008 | 36 Comments
Well I may be a day late, but friends, I am happy to be back! Since last April many things have changed, including the place where we live. After weeks of packing and crawling around boxes in our tiny old apartment, this past Sunday we finally moved to a lovely new home. It is a dream. Instead of having...
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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...)
