I can not do another blog about the Virus. I can publish another entry in my on going blog series sharing book titles to fill the time and allay some of the cabin fever that so many have admitted to feeling. For me, Sheltering in place has offered a chance to do the “to do’s” I have been bypassing for years. A good book fills the time and expands our knowledge base of the world, history in this case. The book is entitled The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books, Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee.
He has published many history books and I intend research more titles. It is a long title, and a great read. Doing so requires concentration on so many details about the Columbus family, searching words, names and events on the Web from an eBook that usually ends in 2 hours of following links, not a bad education and plunge into history that we did not learn in school. It is listed as a top 10 book I have read.
This book nurtures the category of lovers of history and those among us severely addicted to books, to books about books, addicted to libraries or books about libraries. This is a vividly portrayed account following Hernando Colon, Christopher Columbus’s illegitament son, a man severely mistreated by his mother, step brother Juan and life. The synopsis in the about this book on line gives a broad overview of the book and is too long to share here in under a minute.
Bonus: Quick Recommendations
Jean Grainger’s 2 book series; The Star and the Shamrock and The Emerald Horizon. Jean (Irish) is a prolific writer of many genres and series. The first book I read by this author is entitled The Tour, It could only be told by a tour guide like Jean. More books: the Lost Girls in Paris by Pam Jenot and I am about to re read Utopia by Sir Saint Thomas More (post the Columbus books discussion of same) and American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. Extra bonus, 2 movies, The Good Liar and Lost in Paris, two very different genres. Check them out.
I sincerely hope this finds EVERYONE in good health. Share your books to read with me please, I note them and pass the titles on. Stay busy.