pickThis is a pretty good summary and description of the pyramids we know, trying to dig into their function somewhat and figure out why some of them failed. If you're fascinating by ancient Egyptian burial practices, this one's a winner.
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pickThis is a pretty good summary and description of the pyramids we know, trying to dig into their function somewhat and figure out why some of them failed. If you're fascinating by ancient Egyptian burial practices, this one's a winner.
panThis book was not for me but I appreciate that for others this will be one that stays with them. While fictional, it shows a window into society in Egypt.
Read for #ReadtheWorld2025 #Egypt
Just cuz I wanted to post something cool on Friday! 1951 edition , everyone loves a map or a foldout!
Great find at The Book Barn (a refurbished barn that is now a massive used book store).
I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it.
#ABookADay2025
pickI listened to the next one (No. 6) in the Amelia Peabody series and liked it very much. The change of the setting and storyline, which were the quite similar in the first four, definitely made No. 5 and this one more interesting. The notion of finding a society hidden from our modern day world reminded me very much of Balck Panther and Wakanda. 😊
WHAT I KNOW ABOUT YOU is my penultimate book from this year‘s Canada Reads Longlist, and it‘s yet another I‘d like to see jump to the shortlist in a year or two. While I can‘t say there‘s anything truly unexpected in the story, Chacour draws the reader into his characters‘ world so completely that I forget I know pretty well what‘s coming. And hey, I‘ve still got 80 pages or so left, so he might surprise me!
My reading is a bit fragmented as we're travelling around Europe at the moment so I'm not getting the best sense of this one. Though we're told at the beginning that it's set in Egypt in 1926 I can't really identify the time period from the story other than early (first half) 20th century.
