Unfortunately, the boys tend to stop.
David
On Jul 26, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Patrick King wrote:
>
> The girls who learned to read Harry Potter seem to be reading
> vampires and the zombies. What are the boys reading?
>
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>
> Not all of them. I'm currently reading THE PHYSIC BOOK OF
> DELIVERANCE DANE by 26-year-old Katherine Howe. This is a fairly
> intelligent story of a grad student looking for original source
> material for her PHD thesis on colonial America. In her late
> grandmother's cottage in Marblehead Massachusetts, she discovers
> reference to Deliverance Dane. A further search of local records
> indicates that Dane was an apothecary accused of witchcraft a few
> months before the hysteria on that subject occurred in the nearby
> town of Salem. There is also reference to an extensive journal that
> Dane kept of her recipes. This is the only such volume known to be
> written by a woman in this period so would be a tremendous coupe
> for the grad student if she can locate it. The book also goes into
> details about the effect of a conviction on witchcraft charges on a
> family over generations.
>
> The characters are a little stiff and one dimensional, but the
> story and the atmosphere are compelling. Howe is, herself, a
> descendant of Elizabeth Howe who was hung for witchcraft in Salem
> in 1692.
>
> This is a phenomenal first effort by a female member of the Harry
> Potter generation.
>
> Patrick King
>
>
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