In the history of my home in Pennsylvania there is a true account in the history of Armstrong County of a woman's harrowing story of her kidnapping in which two of her sons were murdered by a band of American Indians. She was taken with two of the children, one of whom was an infant, after one son being murdered at the initial abduction. Her other son was shortly thereafter murdered. For six days she was forced to walk barefoot through the wilderness in captivity carying her infant child and finally escaped with her infant still in tow. She walked back to her home where she was received and cared for. She wrote of her ordeal in a book that was published during her life. Would you read a book that went into detail of what she had to endure?

What was your favourite book this month? I normally read 4-6 books a month but, this month, because Caesar's Women by Colleen McCullough is so long and I'm still reading it, I've finished only 3 and none of them were great. Good, but not favourites. So I'm going to cheat and tell you about my favourite book in February: Small Island by Andrea Levy. It's set mostly in post-WWII England. The writing was excellent and the characters wonderful. They were all deeply flawed, deeply real people and I loved them. I also loved how their lives intersected. It was also good to learn a bit about racism in my country of origin for a change, rather than only the North American version. I highly recommend it!