[bksvol-discuss] Re: Speckled Monster
- From: "Kaitlyn" <kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 23:18:45 -0800
So the full title and author is???
The AGEL World Mission
Kaitlyn Hill
WWW.AgelPortlandMission.com
503-777-7155
503-358-3547
kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
WWW.GetAgelInfo.com
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Grandma Cindy
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 11:13 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Speckled Monster
Go for it, Kaitlyn. I've mentioned it several times
and no one's scanned it yet. It's very readable and
interesting, as I said. I
Cindy
ar.com> wrote:
> Hi Cindy,
>
> If no one else wants to get it let me know and I can
> order it and get it
> scanned. Back doing a lot of scanning. Once I do
> some cleanup here I have 10
> or 11 new books to upload. A number of them on the
> American Indians.
>
>
>
> The AGEL World Mission
> Kaitlyn Hill
> WWW.AgelPortlandMission.com
> 503-777-7155
> 503-358-3547
> kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> WWW.GetAgelInfo.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Grandma Cindy
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 5:56 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: John Adams bio
>
> This probably belongs more on the bookshare list,
> but...
>
> E, if you mean the Adams bio by McCullogh, I'm going
> to add my unasked-for opinion here. The book, I
> think,
> got a Pulitzer--whatever, it was highly preaised by
> critics et al, but I'm afraid I found it not that
> interesting. I was able to read only a quarter or a
> third when I decided not to force myself to finish.
>
> One thing about it was very interesting, though.
> When
> Adams was in Philadelphia working on the
> Declaration,
> there was a smallpox epidemic in Massachusetts.
> Abigail took the kids to Boston for vaccinations.
> Adams had been innoculated many years eariler. My
> husband didn't believe I had the dates correct and
> he
> lost his bet. That piece of info and the bet led me
> to
> the book The Speckled Monster, by Jennifer Lee
> Carrell--a non-fiction book also by a woman with a
> "Ph.D. in English and American Literature from
> Harvard
> University, as well as other degrees in English from
> Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford Universities. She is a
> regular contributor to Smithsonian Magazine; past
> articles have covered the training of firefighters,
> the popularity of Shakespeare among cowboys and
> mountain men in the wild West, Isaac Newton's
> fascination with alchemy - and its contribution to
> his
> scientific discoveries, and the secret use of
> optical
> tools by Renaissance artists."
>
> The book, not in the collection, was
> fascinating--very
> well written--so much so that I even read all the
> chapter notes at the end. Anyone interested in the
> history of medicine--even just the history of early
> Boston and England in the 1720's, and how difficult
> it
> was to fight the establishment to get something new
> tried (politics, as ever) will enjoy this book. It
> is
> long, 474 pages plus 17 of introductory material,
> but
> I see on Amazon there are paperback versions out,
> though the hardback probably would be easier to
> scan.
>
> Dr. Cross, does that interest you? Does it interest
> anyone? Perhaps it's of too limited interest to add
> to
> the collection, but if the history of medieval Italy
> from 400-1000, and The Archaeology of the Lands of
> the
> Bible, have readers, perhaps this book would, too.
> smile
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
> "A
>
>
>
>
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