Happy Thanksgiving

I'm currently reading (in paper book) THE MIDWIFE'S TALE by Sam Thomas. This is 1st of 2 in series featuring Bridget Hodgson, a widowed midwife, and Martha Hawkins, her apprentice, in 1640s York, England. Here is a description:

It is 1644, and Parliament’s armies have risen against the King and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebels’ hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion. One of Bridget’s friends, Esther Cooper, has been convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to be burnt alive. Convinced that her friend is innocent, Bridget sets out to find the real killer. Bridget joins forces with Martha Hawkins, a servant who’s far more skilled with a knife than any respectable woman ought to be. To save Esther from the stake, they must dodge rebel artillery, confront a murderous figure from Martha’s past, and capture a brutal killer who will stop at nothing to cover his tracks. The investigation takes Bridget and Martha from the homes of the city’s most powerful families to the alleyways of its poorest neighborhoods. As they delve into the life of Esther’s murdered husband, they discover that his ostentatious Puritanism hid a deeply sinister secret life, and that far too often tyranny and treason go hand in hand.

It was published in 2012 and has 320 pages. I'm quite liking it; it's told in first person and a period of history that isn't done to death.

I let the boys run this morning then went to get the local newspaper - Steve will want to see the ads -- and then ran down to work because I left my Kindle there (Doh! How did that happen?!?)

Gotta make the paleo stuffing here pretty quick but I've been enjoying reading the news and doing my blog.

And it isn't Thanksgiving without this fantastic clip:



One of the funniest things ever shown on television, I swear.

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster