Riding Hoods, ancient and modern
Versions of the Red Riding Hood fable share a common ancestor that’s more than 2600 years old. See also. (Via.)
Versions of the Red Riding Hood fable share a common ancestor that’s more than 2600 years old. See also. (Via.)
Like Terry’s, this site focuses on books, and things other than books. Consequently, I’ve never embraced the “litblog” label. Your mileage may vary.
Hide-and-seek, sheep fetus injections: I desperately want to read Selina Hastings’ new biography of Somerset Maugham.
Although my mother was his only surviving child, her father always said he had another during his first marriage. He implied that the baby died as an infant, Mom says; in fact, I discovered this weekend, the little girl lived nearly six years. My grandfather, Robert Bruce, was seventeen when he wed Nettie Mason, then sixteen, in May, 1925. A . . .
“The thing that Grann does so well is turn his investigators… into literary detectives.”