An Amazon search for the author quickly turned up the book. In more detail, I saw it is set starting in "1786" and features a well-to-do family in rural England. Immediately I thought I had to check this out.
Samples Do Tell A Story
Tag: history
Those American Tourists
Now, on to Buzzfeed's "report" detailing certain Redditers' observations on American tourists...
Looking Back
No posts here for a few days, I know. So what have I been up to?
Recalling Old “Friends”
Don't think we did not joke about this back then ourselves: Living as I did then in a New York City suburb, I recall my "friends" and I even then laughing about the absurd size of the characters' Manhattan apartments...
Story Leaves Out Austen
Marshall really liked Jane Austen's books...
Not “They/Them”
We (meaning all of us) simply need a new word for those who in the third-person singular assert to be neither "he" nor "she."
A Facade Of The Past
That is - to me - the sort of writing that makes for historical romantic fiction. The fictional characters must inhabit recognizable history, and in doing so help us to better understand the history... while we are being entertained and without feeling like we are in school.
The Dinner Date: Does The Man Still Pay?
I cannot get over how evidently "challenged" by her opinions numbers of the male commenters are. Is what she is saying ACTUALLY that much of a SHOCKER?
How To Make Friends
There seems to be a misunderstanding among younger people about the nature of friendship and how friendships arise.
Publishers: Between A Rock And Another Rock
We need to bear in mind that even lying ugly treatises teach us something. If we are to try to understand those who think such ways, we need to read what they write.
Horses, Sails, And Walking
I threw together that draft map of some locations that will be in the coming book thinking a version of the map may appear in that book - the first time I will have published such an "aid."
Guns, Guns, Guns
George Floyd was not shot by police, yet he was killed as he was largely because of how US policing has mis-developed...
The Personal
I state that not because I care about what one Instagrammer and some social media commenters think. I say it because I would never insult readers by trying to write about anything or anyone I don't feel I know enough about.
“100 Years” Minimum
Here are six "classics" I have read that are also among my favorite books - I can read them over and over.
At The Casino
It took me only a few days to read all of "Bond." Part of the reason it was such a quick read, I suppose, is because clearly it is meant to be a quick read...
