Anybody watch the series “From” ? When I saw the prompt I thought about how guests are brought in and don’t escape.
At this point, the streams fork out and I can’t keep track with these ole fingers and eyes. So that’s it.
By the way, if you don’t like horror, and I think this is far scarier than The Walking Dead, maybe pass it by. I’m still undecided. I watched while knitting or playing games on my tablet so I don’t get hooked in.
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Thank you, Laura, I love this!
I mentioned to my daughter that I was learning to button-train my dog. She suggested I might be interested in this book. She was right.
From the time my children were born, I saw they wanted to learn about the world. I saw that they were deep in thought long before they could speak words. Just as I have noticed with my dog and cats, they saw a lot but had no way to speak in completely understandable ways. Sure, they somehow teach us when to give snacks, clean the litter, or go outside. They seem to understand our words; we understand their actions. But I will still try to find buttons to teach them to talk to us. There is a whole science about this now.
Frans de Waal addresses animal intelligence and how they communicate in their own groups. I cannot find the narrator’s information. After you get used to his way of speaking the text flows and keeps the reader’s interest. This was an Audible version so I can read it again later.
Three Sisters by Heather Morris
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
These three books were so good that I had to buy the Audible version so I can read/listen to them again and again. Heather Morris’s research and writing were fascinatingly well done! And Finty Williams’s narration just brought the characters to life. She made her voice sound different for every character. I never felt lost as to whose point of view was being expressed.
This book is about the worst and best of people, at the worst time in history. Three sisters are caught up in the worst conditions and separated after promising to stay together and protect each other. I love books about people who care for others, even for those who were seemingly on the wrong side. Even as it seems hopeless, these characters find ways to make it just one more day.
I hope everyone gets a chance to read these books. I was able to read/listen to them first from Libby, but as I said, I look forward to reading them many more times. I may yet buy the paper version, as there are a lot of facts in the afterward that I think I need to look at and absorb.
When you know all day that it is Wednesday and you only have one line the burden can overtake you at 4 AM Thursday and again remembered at 10 AM, the panic is real! (I’m posting this on Thursday hoping that it fills in a missing day for WP.)
Since I don’t have a book review ready, I’m still reading the books, I thought it a good time to share what I’m working on.
Though I’m working on the socks when my hands let me but the progress doesn’t show so much.
Mostly I’ve been trying to catch up with reading. Have you seen my TBR/Currently Reading shelf?
Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Louise Brealey’s amazing voice narrated Heather Morris’s fascinating novel.
This series is so important to read. We need to feel what people felt as this actual crime happened in history. It may be the only way new generations will believe it. Even those who lived through it didn’t believe it until they were nearly dead from the cruelty.
This series is based on facts told to the author by the Tattooist himself. As many in that generation do, holding the unbelievable truths for the protection of body and soul, he finally wanted to talk. He needed someone to listen to his story.
The fiction in this story gives the listener/reader a basis for understanding the human issues involved. I couldn’t stop reading. The sun was up when I finished. The excitement and the truth the author conveyed at the end of the book kept me awake until morning. I wanted to start the next book in the series, but I attempted to sleep.
I was lucky to find this series on Libby, but I know I will have to read them again and again, so I will buy the Audible versions and maybe even the paperback for the record, when I get paid.
The Fallen: The Lost Girls of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries and a Legacy of Silence by Louise Brangan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Louise Brangan narrated her book about the girls who ended up in the doomed life of doing the laundry for the Catholic nuns (a very loose description). Her Irish accent makes the dreary tale delightful. I could listen to her read the phonebook. Does anyone remember those?
My review sounds lighthearted, but this book is a serious study of a part of Ireland’s history. A part of women’s history. My husband recommended the book to me. He told me it is a subject that he finds interesting.
The author follows a few of the young women’s stories personally, from bad family starts or misguided starts, and the way they were misjudged and punished for implied sins.
Libby didn’t have it when I was looking for it, so I bought the Audible version. I highly recommend it to all of you.
Blue sky until…
Is it coincidence, or is Will Smith making another movie? ID3?
Is it a coincidence that ‘coincidence’ starts with ‘coin’ as you might toss for luck?
Is it a coincidence that Milo hit the button “outside” when he needed to relieve his bladder? He seemed quite happy. Since that time, he’s looked at the button wagging his tail but scratches the door instead.
It’s how we all learned to communicate. Babble sounds that resulted in our needs being met. And the most successful sounds we repeated often. Sure we got it wrong sometimes, but success bred success.
Weyward by Emilia Hart
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Aysha Kala, Helen Keeley, and Nell Barlow narrated Emilia Hart’s three-layered novel.
“Witch. The word slithers from the mouth like a serpent, drips from the tongue as thick and black as tar. We never thought of ourselves as witches, my mother and I. For this was a word invented by men, a word that brings power to those that speak it, not those that it describes. A word that builds gallows and pyres, turns breathing women into corpses.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward
That quote brought my opinion of this book way up. Up until I read that, I felt this to be very similar to the book I recently read, The Lost Apothecary. I like the narrators on that one far more than this, as the voices were very different. But the quote woke my spirit, and I started paying more attention. So, though this was a similar three-layered historical story, this was more in tune with nature, enjoying the trees and birds, and seeing a depth we don’t notice most of the time.
Libby supplied this audiobook. I’m so grateful for libraries that share great books for all of us.
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