I was very excited to see Gin Phillips's second book, and I guess I was hoping for an extension of The Well and the Mine. This was very different, and I was a bit disappointed at first. However, it is a good book, and she is a very good storyteller. Her characters in this one are not drawn as dee...
*** 1/2Un libro del quale ho particolarmente apprezzato le parti che trattavano gli scavi archeologici e il passato di Lynay, mentre quelle sulla protagonista e la sua storia d'amore mi hanno interessato meno.Se fossero state sviluppate in parallelo forse avrei apprezzato di più, mentre la scritt...
Most of the ponds here are disgusting—muddy brown with a thick scum of algae over the surface. We call one Dead Man’s Lake, another one Mucous Lake, and a third one Mutant Alligator Lake. (The best fishing is at Mutant Alligator.) But the fourth pond, over by Hole Twelve, is pretty and pale green...
Toward the end of the Depression, he tracked down the addresses of miners who’d moved on, and he wrote more than fifty of them letters. They’d say, “Dear Tom: You owe me $375.00 for your grocery bill. If you’d pay me $150, I’ll be willing to cancel the debt.”Just a short, simple letter with a dif...
It took forever to power up. When it finally did, I got online and typed “Plantagenet” as my search term. If this whole message thing was just some advertisement for a new store in town, I’d find out soon enough. In a split second, I had 9,250,000 r...