Re: Books: 2nd Edition
Posted: Jan 30, 2020 10:40 am
I've read quite a few interesting books in the last couple of months!
The Faithful Spy is an semi-graphic novel (lots of illustrations, but not a comic) about Bonhoeffer by John Hendrix. The drawings are wonderful, bringing so much depth to the biography. It's excellent - definitely a good introduction to the subject for older children/teens.
Rough Magic: Riding the World's Wildest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer was a Christmas gift, so I began it knowing nothing about the subject. Lara became the first person to win the Mongol Derby, the world's longest horse race, in 2013, despite apparently being hopelessly unprepared. It's a very frank account of her time taking part. I enjoyed this book a lot.
Warrior: The Biography of a Man with No Name by Edoardo Albert is about the excavation of and history surrounding a skeleton dug up near Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland. There's an overlap in the history with a book I read last year, The King in the North, but I enjoyed the details about the excavation of sites which came through from the co-writer, an archaeologist.
I finished The Outcasts of Time by Ian Mortimer yesterday. It didn't take me long to read at all, and I couldn't put it down as I neared the end. It's about two brothers from 1348 who end up spending six days across the centuries - the first in 1447, the second in 1546, and so on. I loved the historical details and I especially enjoyed the questions raised about faith, such as exploring the shift from a Catholic to Protestant country.
The Faithful Spy is an semi-graphic novel (lots of illustrations, but not a comic) about Bonhoeffer by John Hendrix. The drawings are wonderful, bringing so much depth to the biography. It's excellent - definitely a good introduction to the subject for older children/teens.
Rough Magic: Riding the World's Wildest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer was a Christmas gift, so I began it knowing nothing about the subject. Lara became the first person to win the Mongol Derby, the world's longest horse race, in 2013, despite apparently being hopelessly unprepared. It's a very frank account of her time taking part. I enjoyed this book a lot.
Warrior: The Biography of a Man with No Name by Edoardo Albert is about the excavation of and history surrounding a skeleton dug up near Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland. There's an overlap in the history with a book I read last year, The King in the North, but I enjoyed the details about the excavation of sites which came through from the co-writer, an archaeologist.
I finished The Outcasts of Time by Ian Mortimer yesterday. It didn't take me long to read at all, and I couldn't put it down as I neared the end. It's about two brothers from 1348 who end up spending six days across the centuries - the first in 1447, the second in 1546, and so on. I loved the historical details and I especially enjoyed the questions raised about faith, such as exploring the shift from a Catholic to Protestant country.