Recent Reads - May & June
The 500s France/Gaul of Fingal’s Quest, which has been stripped of art/culture and Christianity after the invasion and culture clash, was juxtaposed in my mind with the 1300s France of The White Company, which was filled with culture and art and the English would go there to get culture and bring it back to England with them - 1300s France was more recognizable, from present day, I would say. That was fascinating.
Regarding Rascal: I enjoyed the vast majority of this book. It’s very much a nature type book.
I read a snippet in this video, but that theme does come up 2x - great opportunity for discussion. It is treated as fact from his mother, but of course today Darwinian evolution is a disproven theory. The most plausible version today is neo-Darwinism of the gaps, which models macro-evolution happening in sudden leaps from one stage directly to another, which is based predominantly on the incredible lack of fossil evidence of transitional stages, of which there should be tremendous numbers of Darwin’s theory held up.
Later, Sterling asks his teacher if raccoons will one day change into humans since they’re so smart.
Page numbers for my book version: 92-94, 137
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I love hearing about what you have been reading. The books I have read in the past are all wonderful choices, and the ones I haven’t read I put on hold at my library. We loved reading the Green Ember books. We had to take a break after the third one because there was a lot of violence that was a little too graphic for my children at the time. We will be coming back to finish up the series after we finish Mistmantle though. Thank you for your wonderful book reviews, your calming tone is a highlight in my week. God Bless you!
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I love Mistmantle, I think they are accessible for younger ages but pleasant for adults too. Green Ember is probably more middle grade, it seems to me - I was pre-reading that on my own to get a feel for it. And thanks for the encouragement, I don’t think of myself as having a calming tone, so I appreciate it! It’s always weird hearing recordings of your own voice, haha
Strange corollary between Psyche sacrificed to The Beast, and the modern horrors described in Irreversible Damage. I have never read Till We Have Faces, but your reading was very powerful. “People are always walking through France to get somewhere else” 😂 👍 I love that cover and inside flap of The White Company! The art reminds me of Prince Valiant. I ate that stuff up when i was a boy. Thank you for the excellent book discussion.
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Some of the French people in the White Company were annoyed with all the companies of English soldiers coming through... again, haha 😂. So no disrespect to France, I was thinking too of how their landscape got the worst of lots of the trench warfare in the 1900s, though the real fight was really for something so much more than those specific areas.
Hidden Hand has a stunning cover! I haven´t heard about the book but I will check it out. Great video, thank you 😊