Young Umslopogaas, son of the bloodthirsty Zulu king Chaka, is forced to flee when Chaka orders his death. ![]() The Blurb says: “Nada the Lily” is the thrilling story of the brave Zulu warrior Umslopogaas and his love for the most beautiful of Zulu women, Nada the Lily. So I’m looking forward to this one, which will be new to me… I love Rider Haggard but have read surprisingly few of his books, tending to re-read the same ones again and again. And it seems that Arabella has a few secrets of her own – including her near-obsessive affection for Nora, a former maid who died in mysterious circumstances.Īnother of my 20 Books and also one from my Classics Club list. Bessy is intrigued by her new employer, but puzzled by her increasingly strange requests and her insistence that Bessy keep a journal of her most intimate thoughts. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley – the wide-eyed Irish heroine of The Observations – takes a job as a maid in a big house outside Edinburgh working for the beautiful Arabella. The book that’s been lingering on my TBR longest, since, it seems about time I should actually read this one! It’s one of my 20 Books of Summer… These 28 women of the Moon present us with an opportunity to meditate on this gap, but perhaps more significantly, they offer us an opportunity to talk about their lives, mostly unknown today. Of the 1586 craters that have been named honoring philosophers and scientists, only 28 honor a woman. The Moon, or more precisely the nomenclature of lunar craters, still holds up a mirror to an important aspect of human history. However, the Moon does reflect more than just sunlight. We see it as often as the Sun and give it little thought ― we’ve become indifferent. ![]() Today we smile, but it was a clever way to understand the Moon in a manner that was consistent with the beliefs of their age. The agreed solution was that, like a mirror, it reflected the imperfect Earth. ![]() The Blurb says: Philosophers and poets in times past tried to figure out why the stainless moon “smoothly polished, like a diamond” in Dante’s words, had stains. I had a quick look at the list of names and am ashamed to admit to only recognising about five of them, so I’m looking forward to learning more about them all… A nicely quirky way to tell the story of some of the women recognised by scientists but often not well known to us lesser mortals. Here are a few more that will be sashaying off the list soon… FactualĬourtesy of Oxford University Press. Aha, you doubters! Last week’s increase was a temporary blip! This week the TBR is back down – by 2 to 222.
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