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howling frog books skip to main content search this blog howling frog books posts spin 43 two years before the mast get link facebook x pinterest email other apps by jean march 29 2026 two years before the mast by richard henry dana jr wow this is a fascinating account no wonder it was hugely popular in its day it s not well known now and i didn t really know what i was getting into but i sure enjoyed this memoir of life at sea in the 1830s in 1834 richard dana was a law student at harvard and he contracted measles which damaged his eyesight he couldn t read at all he decided that the way to recover his health would be to sign on as a regular sailor to a merchant ship and spend a couple of years at sea he entered service on the pilgrim which was headed to california in the days when alta california was a sparsely populated area of mexico and the back of beyond no panama canal no railroad and no overland journeys from the united states yet the financial interest in california was for cattle hides from the herds run by the spanish missions brought to the coast largely by the native peoples being used as 2 comments read more the taste of ashes get link facebook x pinterest email other apps by jean february 11 2026 the taste of ashes the afterlife of totalitarianism in eastern europe by marci shore i ve had this for quite some time and was spurred to start it when i started watching a series of lectures online and realized that the professor was the same person who wrote this book and also she s married to timothy snyder whose books i love so i dove in and it still took me forever to read but that s because of my slump not because it wasn t fascinating it was it s a sort of combination memoir and description of life in many different places in eastern europe after the cold war ended to my intense envy shore who must be only a year or so older than i am spent 1990 on studying and teaching in czechoslovakia and other places that s what i wanted to be doing in the early 1990s only i didn t know how to get there and probably i wouldn t have done too well at it anyway but reading about her doing it was pretty amazing shore s post a comment read more the giant under the snow get link facebook x pinterest email other apps by jean february 09 2026 the giant under the snow by john gordon i heard of this one somewhere and was intrigued and i had to buy it on kindle i m not sure it was ever published in the us if so it was decades ago this story was published in 1968 jonquil jonk her boyfriend bill and his best friend arf arthur are nice slightly disaffected teens of the late 60s on a school field trip to the countryside jonk wanders off and finds herself on a barrow that is surprisingly hand shaped then she s chased by a terrifying dog and takes shelter at the home of elizabeth a somewhat mysterious woman soon the three find a celtic buckle that turns out to be the deciding factor in a resurgent war between two powers and between the winter solstice and christmas they have to try to help elizabeth and foil an ancient evil this is a really interesting and unusual story much in the vein of alan garner or perhaps susan cooper but a little bit older it s legitimately s post a comment read more the 43rd spin number is get link facebook x pinterest email other apps by jean february 09 2026 two that gives me a doorstopper of a maritime memoir two years before the mast by richard henry dana dana spent two years of the 1830s sailing from the east coast to california by way of cape horn so i m hoping for penguins he published his account in 1840 we ll see how it goes i don t really know much about this one i ll report back at the end of march post a comment read more the 43rd spin get link facebook x pinterest email other apps by jean february 04 2026 huzzah it s time for the 43rd spin you know the rules so let s get to the list eichmann in jerusalem by hannah arendt two years before the mast by richard henry dana amerika by kafka the leopard 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and mine them for forgotten short stories i love this series and have a few of them i d happily get the whole giant collection and this one features spooky stories about my favorite thing ancient stone monuments yay some of these are famous names e f benson algernon blackwood arthur machen others aren t familiar to me and one or two are practically unknown like stuart strauss who published three stories in early weird tales issues and was never heard from again presumably it was a pseudonym but who strauss really was is a mystery the stories also have a variety of themes from villages untouched by the modern world to race cars human imagination and stones that just eat people it s all very enjoyable loved it this 1 comment read more the splendid century get link facebook x pinterest email other apps by jean january 06 2026 the splendid century life in the france of louis xiv by w h lewis i ve always been terrible at french literature and history and i find them intimidating so i m quite proud of reading this description of life in the 17th century under the reign of louis xiv the one who called himself the sun king and moved the court from paris to versailles it s not at all a difficult or heavy duty tome but a lively and fascinating overview of a society perfect for someone like me warren h lewis was c s lewis brother and in later life acted as his secretary and wrote books about french history but before that he made his career in the army serving as a supply officer from 1914 until his retirement in 1932 he therefore knew about everything there was to know about military logistics especially horses and this really comes through in his chapters about the french army and even his judgement of louis character who he describes as so obsessed with de 2 comments read more more posts powered by blogger theme images by michael elkan images kat of waffley cute designs home about howling frog books reading all around the world 2023 tbr challenges classics club ii index 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