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Still cold
Feb. 4th, 2009 09:33 pmBut supposed to start a warming trend tomorrow going all the way to 50F by the weekend. Hard to believe right now with temperatures in the single digits and not above 10 all day.
I've been listening to an audiobook version of The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath. It's a romantic suspense novel from the 1920s, full of anarchists and bolsheviks threatening the safety of US citizens while everybody chases around looking for a pair of gigantic (and accursed) emeralds called "The Drums of Jeopardy." In spite of some silly ethnic slurs, on the whole it's a pretty decent story. The emeralds were, of course, stolen out of one of the Russian republics during the turmoil of the revolutions there, and everyone is trying to get them for their own purposes.
Why am I reading this? Because MacGrath was one of the ten best-selling adult authors in the US in 1909, the year the library was first opened. Drums hadn't been written yet, but his 1909 best-seller was called The Goose Girl and involves a missing princess and a mysterious peasant girl who appears from nowhere to advise her heartsick father...
I've been listening to an audiobook version of The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath. It's a romantic suspense novel from the 1920s, full of anarchists and bolsheviks threatening the safety of US citizens while everybody chases around looking for a pair of gigantic (and accursed) emeralds called "The Drums of Jeopardy." In spite of some silly ethnic slurs, on the whole it's a pretty decent story. The emeralds were, of course, stolen out of one of the Russian republics during the turmoil of the revolutions there, and everyone is trying to get them for their own purposes.
Why am I reading this? Because MacGrath was one of the ten best-selling adult authors in the US in 1909, the year the library was first opened. Drums hadn't been written yet, but his 1909 best-seller was called The Goose Girl and involves a missing princess and a mysterious peasant girl who appears from nowhere to advise her heartsick father...
