Even apart from Lily and Snow Flower’s story, the book provides fascinating details about how people of the villages lived in that time period. The beliefs and customs that surround women are heart-breaking to those of us living where women are now almost equal to men in our society. Yet the women in this story bear up under those beliefs, and even find strength in many of the customs. [...]
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Got this off of Twitter this morning. Flavorwire has a great list of songs connected to libraries and librarians: Mixtape: 10 Best Songs About Libraries and Librarians. I’m already starting a collection of URLs for videos about fonts. (Three so far. Three!) Do you have a list of favourite songs or videos that relate to [...] I was thrilled to read these books, because they deal with the events prior to and during the reign of the “heretic Pharaoh” Akhenaten and his wife, Nefertiti, and the fallout after their deaths during the rule of the boy-Pharaoh, Tutankhamun. [...] There was no sensationalism about Romer’s presentation, as there is in most documentaries about ancient history that we now see on the cable channels. [...] So as I’m reading that article, I’m picturing this ocean of liquid diamond, and those diamond icebergs floating on it. And then one of my favourite Bruce Cockburn songs, “All the Diamonds,” springs to mind. [...] I’m glad to see all the great nominations for the Canadian Weblog Awards. I’m not sure how they’re arrived at, so I’m going to pay closer attention and find out. I have a few that I’d like to nominate myself, in the future! There’s no specific “Book Blogs” category, which really could have its own [...] The challenge involves just six books, but there has to be one from each of the following categories: food, body of water, title, plant, place name, music term. [...] A new crossword puzzle is up at the Minds Alive on the Shelves blog today, following Lisa’s promise that she’d have a new puzzle there every Friday. This week’s topic is Book Terms and Titles. I’m halfway through and am stuck on a few of them (love the challenge!), but I’m not going to check [...] |
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