tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post7455809692464570467..comments2024-03-12T06:01:22.059-05:00Comments on Reading the Past: James Scott's The Kept, a taut revenge tale set in the snowy New York wildernessSarah Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13340312953393474963noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-68651597520538176362014-01-11T20:15:52.114-06:002014-01-11T20:15:52.114-06:00I had read this one back in September, I think, wh...I had read this one back in September, I think, when it wasn't quite so frigid out - but it definitely fits now! Hope it's warmer this week where you are. Sarah Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13340312953393474963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-76481526320722219212014-01-11T20:14:12.620-06:002014-01-11T20:14:12.620-06:00The Kept is Gritty with a capital G, so if you enj...The Kept is Gritty with a capital G, so if you enjoy that type of novel, you should love this one. :)Sarah Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13340312953393474963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-90523873634209315452014-01-11T16:54:28.192-06:002014-01-11T16:54:28.192-06:00I love 'gritty' historical fiction and thi...I love 'gritty' historical fiction and this sounds right up my alley. Thanks for reviewing it or it probably would have never come to my attention. :)J. R. Tomlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01109874615059334200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-74726183036484023582014-01-07T18:38:15.968-06:002014-01-07T18:38:15.968-06:00How perfect for this time of year! We are hoverin...How perfect for this time of year! We are hovering around 5 degrees here right now ourselves. Stay warm!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16609161113240681299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-89399822817824953432014-01-07T12:48:54.772-06:002014-01-07T12:48:54.772-06:00YOU stay warm and safe -- the ice demons thrown of...YOU stay warm and safe -- the ice demons thrown off by the arctic cyclone are no joke.<br /><br />Why yes, this is Louisa Catherina nee Johnson Adams. She is interesting. But of course she is interesting, having lived with that impossible He, John Quincy Adams, for so long. I first encountered her in The Education of Henry Adams, as HA's grandmother. I would have read Mrs. Adams in Winter when it came out, but that was 2010, and we were on the Eastern Shore with the mandate to do as much research that involved the southern U.S. and history as we could during that appointment. So yankees and northerners were given short or no shrift during that period. And really, her journey had little or nothing to do with the southern U.S. domestic slave trade or their slave-breeding industry, so, no. But my partner-in-crime gave it to me as a Christmas prezzie -- we've become Adams Family boosters, since that 2010-2011 era.<br /><br />I'm reading this book but I still haven't gotten the Kobo he also gave me hooked up! MUST DO THAT! :)<br /><br />Love, C. <br /><br />Love, C.Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-83554923822816206732014-01-06T20:30:28.232-06:002014-01-06T20:30:28.232-06:00Is that Mrs. Adams in Winter? I've heard of i...Is that Mrs. Adams in Winter? I've heard of it and had meant to read it. What a fascinating story and woman, and she's so little known compared to her mother-in-law.<br /><br />Stay warm where you are! We may hit above-zero temps tomorrow, which will be nice.Sarah Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13340312953393474963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-47918892528363315802014-01-06T17:47:38.923-06:002014-01-06T17:47:38.923-06:00Apropos, yes! I do understand. As the temps here...Apropos, yes! I do understand. As the temps here in downstate New York plunge I'm reading another appropriate book, though it's not fiction, but an account of the journey John Quincy Adams's wife made across war torn Europe at the end of the Napoleonic era, with a small child, a nursemaid, a man servant and a prisoner of war, from St. Petersburg to Paris, in the dead of winter.<br /><br />She did it because her husband told her to. He, meanwhile, was warm in Ghent, negotiating the treaty to end the War of 1812 with the Brits.<br /><br />Love, C.Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.com