Jingle the Books
Posted: 2016/12/01 Filed under: books, childrens book, NonFiction | Tags: africa, biography, childrens book, Early Review, Elizabeth Enright, Esther Forbes, Fiction, historical, india, John Hemming, Larry Collins, Lauren St John, librarything, Margaret Visser, memoir, New Zealand, NonFiction, Patricia Grace, Paul Revere, Peru, pytheas, Ryanne Cunningham, series, yoga Leave a commentDecember is going to be a crazy month. I need to run 93 miles. I will be hosting my in-law’s Holiday party for the first time. I’m going to the Christmas Eve Patriots Game. What else? Oh. The books!
Nonfiction:
- Conquest of the Incas by John Hemming ~ in honor of December being the best time to visit Peru
- Rainbow’s End by Lauren St. John ~ in honor of Shangani Day in Rhodesia.
- Paul Revere and the World He Lived in by Esther Forbes ~ in honor of Revere’s birth month (I’m guessing since he was baptized on January first.)
- On the Ocean by Pytheas (translated by Christina Horst Roseman) ~ in honor of finally finding a copy of this book!
- Geometry of Love by Margaret Visser ~ in honor of Rome’s Saturnalia Solstice.
- Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre ~ in honor of December being the best time to visit India.
Fiction:
- Tu by Patricia Grace ~ in honor of New Zealand being discovered in December.
Series:
- Spiderweb for Two by Elizabeth Enright ~ in honor of finishing the series started in September in honor of Enright’s birth month.
Early Review:
- Yoga for Athletes by Ryanne Cunningham ~ for LibraryThing
