Saint Brigid's Bones: A Celtic Adventure, is a novel about the world of ancient Ireland, where Christianity and paganism are existing side by side. St. Brigid's bones have been stolen from the small monastery in Kildare that she established and the sisters face a cold winter. In ancient times pilgrims would make a prayer journey to a monastery and pray in the presence of saintly bones, and make a financial offering. Without the bones, the sisters will have no income, so a young nun, Sister Deirdre is assigned the task of finding them. She is appealing, a bit of a rebel, and comes from a family of pagans and singers, a noble family. This novel is written by a historian, Philip Freeman, and the history is rich and colorful, with sympathetic characters. For those history lovers! ML
Monday, October 27, 2014
The Bones of a Saint
Saint Brigid's Bones: A Celtic Adventure, is a novel about the world of ancient Ireland, where Christianity and paganism are existing side by side. St. Brigid's bones have been stolen from the small monastery in Kildare that she established and the sisters face a cold winter. In ancient times pilgrims would make a prayer journey to a monastery and pray in the presence of saintly bones, and make a financial offering. Without the bones, the sisters will have no income, so a young nun, Sister Deirdre is assigned the task of finding them. She is appealing, a bit of a rebel, and comes from a family of pagans and singers, a noble family. This novel is written by a historian, Philip Freeman, and the history is rich and colorful, with sympathetic characters. For those history lovers! ML
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
The Million Dollar Prize
When your mother, the most remarkable female mathematician
in history, dies your world becomes skewed in more ways than one. Alexander
Karnokovitch wants to put his mother to rest privately, but it is not to
be. Many colleagues from around the
world intend to come and pay their last respects to the remarkable Rachela, and
they will not be swayed. Of course it is rumored that she has solved a famous
mathematical problem and that solution may be hidden in her home. As the math
crowd descends on Madison, Wisconsin—Alexander (Sasha) has to deal with their demanding
personalities in addition to his grief. The Mathematician’s Shiva by
Stuart Rojstaczer is a funny, introspective, and enlightening novel about academia and family life. DB
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Fashion Fix-its
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