Just added my #inlinkz link: http://janegs.blogspot.com/2024/10/top-te… here: thatartsyreadergirl.com via @inlinkz

Summer reads during the dog days of August. From Austen to Chevalier, to Connelly and beyond.
Reading, Writing, Working, Playing: Dog Days and Summer Reads (janegs.blogspot.com)

Update on American Civil War deep dive. Demon of Unrest, Battle Cry of Freedom, Bruce Catton, and Jeff Shaara novels janegs.blogspot.com/2024/06/big-bo…

Travel back to NYC 1882 in Time and Again, by Jack Finney. Excellent time-travel classic novel. janegs.blogspot.com/2024/05/time-a…

#JustRead Bruno's Cookbook: Recipes and Traditions from a French Country Kitchen - now to decide what to make for dinner! janegs.blogspot.com/2024/02/brunos…

#JustRead Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. 5 star, tour de force: "stories that transcend time and place." janegs.blogspot.com/2024/01/demon-…

#JustRead 1st roundup of 2024, a life-changing book, a few holiday reads, and a few mysteries. Happy New Year! janegs.blogspot.com/2024/01/first-…

My year in books, 2023 - lots of 5-star books. What a great reading year! janegs.blogspot.com/2023/12/my-yea…

#JustRead Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, a 5-star, life-changing, life-affirming book of stories, insights, and science. Just what I needed as I retire from Act I and commence Act II. janegs.blogspot.com/2023/12/braidi…

Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr. Lovely, poignant, and reassuring. 5 stars, no question. #JustRead janegs.blogspot.com/2023/11/cloud-…

170th anniversary of Preston Lockouts – strikes which inspired #NorthAndSouth and #Dickens' #HardTimes. Want to know the historical truth behind these favourite novels? Join popular speaker Prof Sanders @bronterre1 29 Nov online. #MargaretMonday. Book now elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/events/north-a…

Here's what I've been reading: Gentleman in Moscow, Whalebone Theatre, and more. A couple of 5-star reads in here! #JustRead janegs.blogspot.com/2023/11/novemb…

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's first folio #TheHollowCrown is being repeated on the BBC!

"14 October – The Hollow Crown, series one and two will be presented across six weeks, preceeded by an introduction from Richard Eyre"

"#October that year gathered up all the spilled sunshine of the summer and clad herself in it as in a garment...There was not in all that vanished October one day that did not come in with auroral splendour and go out attended by a fair galaxy of evening stars."

THE GOLDEN ROAD

'There, bathed in the almost level rays of the autumn sunlight, lay the landscape she had known and loved from childhood; as quiet, as full of low humming life as it had been at this hour for many generations.' #NorthAndSouth, 1855 #Autumn #Literature

"Widow made the world go round in 14th and 15th century, England, through their circulation of wealth." From Emmy ri The Wife of Bath by Marion Turner.

Round up of recent books read. Richard Russo, Herman Melville, Ibi Zoboi, and a gorgeous plant book made for a mixed bag of great reads. #justread janegs.blogspot.com/2023/10/round-…

It's official! The book I’ve been working on the last 10 years—the first 5 with my husband before he died—will be published in April. Join us on this very personal journey through the 1960s—a time when we & many others were inspired to act by the belief we could make a difference

The weight is over! #FatBearWeek returns to @KatmaiNPS this October 4 – 10, and we need your help to crown the fattest bear!

Happy Willa Cather Stamp Day! [At least that’s what we’re calling it!] Read all about the process behind this very special commemorative stamp to honor Cather’s 100th birthday in 1973, and the celebration and community spirit in Red Cloud because of it!  willacather.org/news/50-years-…