Kate’s 2¢: “The Plague Dogs” by Richard Adams

“The Plague Dogs” by Richard Adams

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ shares her thoughts about what she’s read. In her opinion…

   I always like to listen to Yvonne Fair Tessler narrate a book.

A few take-aways:

–If eachof us insisted on stoppingto weigh, in every case, the pros and cons if distress to others whether human or animal, broguth about by obeying our instructions, the world could never be run at all. Life is, as they say, too short.

–Here amid the dripping grasses and spongey, soddened mounds of moss, Ralph and Snitter laid gazing in astonishment and dismay as first light made plain the emptinessabout them.

–Those who kill sheep, should mind where they sleep, when there’s nothing to hear the shotgun is nearThe curse of the farmeris likely t harm’er, A scent in themorning issent for a warning  and a cloud on the sun, the wise dog will run He must be sharp and alert to avoid being hurt and a dog that’s gone ferrer is living in peril Those with bloodon their paws and wool in their jaws,  Should heed thes old saws.

–The use of animals is always going to be a  moral problem, but within the realms of our present knowledge, it is impossible to insure that chemicals and drugs are safe, unless they are tested on animals.

–It’s a bad world for animals now.

–Official people who should have know better, were to blame for the community being in danger.

–A certain amount of anthromorphism was useful in helping the people to understand and have sympathy for the animals.

From the WEB:

The Plague Dogs is the third novel by Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, about two dogs’ friendship who escape an animal testing facility and are subsequently pursued by both the government and the media. It was first published in 1977, and features a few location maps drawn by Alfred Wainwright, a fellwalker and author.

The Plague Dogs – Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plague_Dogs

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First edition cover from 1977

Author Richard Adams

Illustrator A. Wainwright

Cover artist A. Wainwright the Cover Artist was Martin White

Country United Kingdom

Language English

Genre Adventure fiction, science fiction

Publisher Allan Lane

Publication date 22 September 1977

Media type Print (hardback & paperback)

Pages 461 (hardback edition)

ISBN 0-7139-1055-0 (hardback edition)

OCLC 3496427

Dewey Decimal 823/.9/14

LC Class PZ4.A2163 Pl PR6051.D345

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

The plague dogs DB11620

Adams, Richard Reading time: 16 hours, 16 minutes.

Yvonne Fair Tessler National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Animals and Wildlife

A dramatic novel of the struggle against evil demonstrates genuine concern for animals. Two talking dogs, a terrier and a mongrel tortured in an English government-owned medical laboratory, manage to escape. With the aid of a canny fox and their animal instincts, they survive. After an irresponsible journalist declares that the animals may be carriers of the bubonic plague, an intensive and cruel manhunt for the dogs begins. Strong language.

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Kate’s 2¢: “Over The Edge” by Irene Hannon

“Over The Edge” by Irene Hannon

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ shares her thoughts about what she’s read. In her opinion…

   Thérèse Plummer did a good job of narrating this cozy murder mystery. As a romance novel, the reader knows the boy and girl meet and fall in love, however, the challenge is to over-come the blockades put in their lives to complicate the union. This is a Christian narrative and is devoid of the potty-mouth found in so many novels today.

Featured snippet from the web

Irene Hannon is the bestselling, award-winning author of more than sixty-five contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels. She is also a three-time winner of the RITA award—the “Oscar” of romance fiction—from Romance Writers of America and is a member of that organization’s elite Hall of Fame.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Irene Hannon (also known as Irene Hannon Gottlieb) is an American author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels. She was a communications executive with Anheuser-Busch.

Early life and education[edit]

Hannon was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Dorothy Morgan and James Patrick Hannon Sr., an Irish immigrant.[1] She and her brother James, Jr. grew up in Brentwood, Missouri a suburb of St. Louis where she frequently spent time at the local library, eventually working there in high school and college.[2] Hannon graduated from Rosati-Kain High School, a Catholic school.[3] She then graduated with a B.A. in psychology from Saint Louis University and an M.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia.

Career[edit]

While working at Anheuser-Busch, Hannon began publishing her writing in the 1980s, and eventually left her job to pursue writing fiction full-time. She has won three RITA Awards for her romantic fiction and was inducted in the Romance Writers of America’s Hall of Fame.[4] Her other awards include four Carol Awards, six Holt Medallions, a Daphne du Maurier, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Romantic Times Book Reviews. [5]

She is married to Thomas Gottlieb,[6] and she enjoys gardening, cooking, travelling, and singing in musicals.[7] She typically writes 2.5 novels a year.[8]

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Over the edge DB125644

Hannon, Irene Reading time: 9 hours, 53 minutes.

Thérèse Plummer

Religious Fiction

Suspense Fiction

Romance

“As the sole witness to a murder, Lindsey Barnes is already on edge. Now she’s being targeted by someone who wants to discredit her testimony. Or is she? Police detective Jack Tucker must determine if it’s true, and if so, who’s behind the campaign to destroy her credibility–and perhaps her life”– Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

Kate’s 2¢: “A history of the world in twelve shipwrecks: by David Gibbins

“A history of the world in twelve shipwrecks: by David Gibbins

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ shares her thoughts about what she’s read. In her opinion…

   Kent Klineman did a great job of narrating this interesting and lengthy book.  This book was one of seven books on one cartridge that the NLS sent to me. I wouldn’t have downloaded it, but the topic was fascinating and actually held my interest.  

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

David Gibbins (born 1962) is an underwater archaeologist and a bestselling novelist.

Early life[edit]

Gibbins was born in 1962 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, to British parents who were academic scientists. He is related to the Victorian historian Henry de Beltgens Gibbins and to Brigadier Henry John Gordon Gale, DSO and Bar. After growing up in Canada, New Zealand and England he attended the University of Bristol, where he was awarded a First Class Honours Degree in Ancient Mediterranean Studies. He spent part of 1984 in Turkey funded by a Travel Scholarship from the British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara. In 1984 he was awarded a Research Scholarship by Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, where he completed a PhD in archaeology in 1991.

He qualified as a scuba diver in Canada at the age of 15, and since then has dived extensively around the world.[1]

Career[edit]

Academic career[edit]

From 1991 to 1993 he held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. From 1993 to 2000 he was a lecturer in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Oriental Studies at the University of Liverpool, and from 1999 to 2001 he was an adjunct professor of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology.[2] During the 1980s and 1990s he led many expeditions to investigate ancient shipwrecks and submerged ruins in the Mediterranean, including Roman shipwrecks off Sicily and the harbour of ancient Carthage. In 1999–2000 he was part of an international team excavating a 5th-century BC shipwreck off Turkey. His publications on ancient shipwreck sites have appeared in scientific journals, books and popular magazines.

Since 2002 he had been a full-time writer and independent scholar. In 2015 he co-founded the research group Cornwall Maritime Archaeology, which has made numerous shipwreck discoveries off south-west England. In 2016 he rediscovered the wreck of the Schiedam, a ship involved in the evacuation of English Tangier in 1684 and associated with Samuel Pepys,[3] and in 2018 the site of the President, an English East Indiaman.[4] In 2019 on another wreck he discovered a unique 16th century copper-alloy statuette of the crucified Christ attributable to Guglielmo della Porta.[5]

Writing[edit]

On leaving academia he became a novelist, writing archaeological thrillers derived from his own background. His novels have sold over three million copies and have been London Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellers. His first novel, Atlantis, published in the UK in 2005 and the US in 2006, was published in 30 languages. Since then he has written ten further novels which have been published in more than 200 editions internationally. His main series is based on the fictional maritime archaeologist Jack Howard and his team, and forms contemporary novels involving an archaeological backdrop. He has also written two historical novels set in ancient Rome.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

A history of the world in twelve shipwrecks DB121343

Gibbins, David Reading time: 14 hours, 40 minutes.

Kent Klineman

Travel

Adventure

World History and Affairs

“From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time. The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII’s the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin’s doomed HMS Terror. The SS Gairsoppa, destroyed by a Nazi U-boat in the Atlantic during World War II. Since we first set sail on the open sea, ships and their wrecks have been an inevitable part of human history. Archaeologists have made spectacular discoveries excavating these sunken ships, their protective underwater cocoon keeping evidence of past civilizations preserved. Now, for the first time, world renowned maritime archaeologist David Gibbins ties together the stories of some of the most significant shipwrecks in time to form a single overarching narrative of world history. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks is not just the story of those ships, the people who sailed on them, and the cargo and treasure they carried, but also the story of the spread of people, religion, and ideas around the world; it is a story of colonialism, migration, and the indomitable human spirit that continues today. From the glittering Bronze Age, to the world of Caesar’s Rome, through the era of the Vikings, to the exploration of the Arctic, Gibbins uses shipwrecks to tell all. Drawing on decades of experience excavating shipwrecks around the world, Gibbins reveals the riches beneath the waves and shows us how the treasures found there can be a porthole to the past that tell a new story about the world and its underwater secrets”– Provided by publisher Unrated. Commercial audiobook.