Polly Evans, a travel writer and journalist, spent about five months traveling around Argentina, with a loose goal of learning to ride horses. On a Hoof and a Prayer recounts her travels and adventures. Reading travel books right now is bittersweet: it's a way to travel vicariously but also makes me miss traveling so much … Continue reading Horsing Around
Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun by Liza Bakewell starts with the author's puzzlement over the many Spanish idioms using the word "madre," and how some seem contradictory. She spends time in Mexico trying to ferret this out, and in the process, learns about the Mexican practice of alburear, a kind of wordplay generally … Continue reading A Real Mother
Sometimes I read some unusual books for my Dewey Decimal Challenge, and my June stack includes a few of those--Herefordshire Speech, The Library Book Cart Precision Drill Team, and I'm Not Hanging Noodles by Your Ears. The good part is that I learn some obscure but interesting info. From Herefordshire Speech by Winifred Leeds, I … Continue reading June Wrap-Up
