The Thoughtful Homemaker

I finally watched the Star Trek movie and really enjoyed it despite all of its flaws. I love that this is an alternate time line Star Trek rather than a simple retelling of the previous stories. I thought the actors did a great job and I almost didn’t want the movie to end. I heard […]

I decided to try some new authors and this was the result.
Sharon Kay Penman-
Here Be Dragons

Here Be Dragons
is the first of Penman’s Welsh trilogy all taking place in the 13th century from the reigns of John, Henry III, and Edward I. This book is about the reign of King John and his dealings […]

I have always been fascinated by the vampire myth. I still have a journal primarily about vampire myths written in 2003, BEFORE Twilight. It is not a fictional story, just entry after entry on the vampire myth and where it may have come from. I was alone in Hawaii with an 18 month Victoria while […]

My brother JJ and I love history books, the more detailed the better. I recommended From Dawn to Decadence. I think he still likes it! it is one of those books that you can read several times and read something different each time. The book is written by Jacques Barzun so it has a sort […]

Last Friday the kids and I went to the library. We go to the library about twice a month. Jon runs to the comic book section and Aron likes to play with the puzzles. I try to find “chapter books” for Victoria while Aron runs to look at the “choo choo” books. After the […]

They were not kidding when certain people put this books on the list as one of the best historical fiction books ever written. This is the book that inspired countless other romantic historical authors from Jean Plaidy to Philippa Gregory.
This novel doesn’t just tell the romance story between Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt. […]

I just finished reading Ivanhoe. My university was to snobby to read Sir Walter Scott though we learned a little about him and his style. He is definitely a Romantic. I usually do not like romantic nationalism but Sir Walter Scott does it better than anyone. He doesn’t his heroes near translation to heaven and […]