Bookshelf Traveling - July 25, 2020

Time for another round of Bookshelf Traveling in Insane Times which is being hosted by Judith at Reader in the Wilderness.   The idea is to share one of your neglected bookshelves or perhaps a new pile of books.   

After traveling with Eva Ibbotson last week, I reread her Magic Flutes and then decided I had never read The Star of Kazan so began that one.  Do you know sometimes you are so familiar with an author or genre so well that you recognize what is going to happen and then you think, wait, have I already read this?   It happens to me with Elizabeth Cadell and D.E. Stevenson’s books, most but not all of which I read years ago, and is definitely happening with The Star of Kazan.   We’ll see if I am right.  As it is an audiobook, I now realize I should have been pronouncing Eva as “Ava.”

England 2018, Day 1

My mother and I dropped our bags at the Arriva Hotel near King's Cross and after a quick cuppa at a nearby Costa, we headed to the heart of what Londoners call the City.  We had great difficulty finding our goal, the Temple Church, partly because my phone took us in circles and partly because it was hidden away, but it was awesome once we found it.  It's a late 12th-century church, church of England's four ancient societies of lawyers and was built by the Knights Templar as their English headquarters.