[bksvol-discuss] Re: Speckled Monster
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 01:57:57 -0800 (PST)
The title is The Speckled Monster. The author is
Jennifer Lee Carrell. Both the paperback and the
original hardbound editions are, according to Amazon,
496 pages. That probabl includes the chapter notes and
a bibliography, as well as the prefatory pages.
Cindy
--- Kaitlyn <kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So the full title and author is???
>
> The AGEL World Mission
> Kaitlyn Hill
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [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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