Here is a a wonderful story of a beautiful and wild country, enduring friendships, and horses! (Really, who could ask for more)? Wild Horses of the Summer Sun: a Memoir of Iceland, by Tory Bilski. The author traveled to Iceland, in the summer, for those long, long days of sunshine for many years, mostly to ride that special breed of horse, the Icelandic. Along the way she made friends who, even though lived far apart, helped each other through the ups and downs of life.

I do enjoy those quirky 'specialized' history books that focus in on one topic and follow it through history, and this one must be one quirkiest: A History of the World Through Body Parts: the Stories Behind the Organs, Appendages, Digits, and the Like Attached to (or Detached From) Famous Bodies, by Kathryn Petras & Ross Petras. Read all about noses and fingers, eyes, skulls, a brain ... and so on ... who they are from and why they made history. An interesting read.

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