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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Queen’s GambitOn a royal whim, Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, orders a living chess game to be enacted by members of his own court. Court Engineer Leonardo da Vinci conjures the spectacle in a single night, but his latest success turns bitter when one of the “pieces”-the Duke’s ambassador to…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: A Tale Dark and GrimmFollows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimm’s Fairy tales Faithful Johannes, Hansel and Gretel, The Seven Ravens, Brother and Sister,…
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Continue reading →: I Haven’t Been Reading
For some reason, I hit a reading slump during summer. Maybe it’s the heat the makes me lethargic or maybe I’m just less motivated to crack open a book, but I haven’t read a single book all of July. Now I’m rolling into August. I don’t like falling into reading…
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Continue reading →: June wrap up
So, this month wasn’t very productive for reading. I was attending a historians summit in New Mexico’s mountain area. I learned archiving, researching, exhibit building and displaying, and inventory systems for artifacts. It was great and I loved sitting in the fridged morning air every morning, watching the sun rise…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Escape from the Isle of the LostThe Final book of the Descendants Novel series.


