Showing posts with label historical research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label historical research. Show all posts

Monday, May 14, 2018

Mailbox Monday - May 14



Mailbox Monday is a meme started by Marcia of To Be Continued. Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week. It now has a permanent home at the Mailbox Monday blog.

Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles, and humongous wish lists.

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a nice weekend and, those who celebrated it, a lovely Mother's Day. In true real estate fashion, I attempted to take at least one of the weekend days off and failed. It's the spring market, so I spent part of Saturday negotiating an offer and showing properties and some time on Sunday finalizing an offer and talking to people about land I have listed. Other than that, I did make my way into the garden--the one I have totally ignored for at least two years--to do some cleaning up. I'm buying a crop cage today and hopefully will have the garden ready to plant by the end of the month.

These are the books I purchased at our local library's book sale.









I rarely buy fiction at book sales these days because I have boxes and boxes of unread books here. These are all great research materials for my writing or on topics of interest to me. 

What was in your mailbox this week? What's the weather been where you are: good to get outside and spring clean or better to hunker down with a warm beverage and read. 

Friday, April 9, 2010

Historical Research -- Can You Help?



I'm currently working on a middle grade novel set in a fictional New England town in the mid-1870's. As such, I am still looking for a few more reliable online resources about the time period: cooking, fashion, and agricultural methods.

I try never to click on sites I don't know. I downloaded one nasty virus that way and my laptop needed to be rebuilt last year. I'm not sure if the hubby has forgiven me for that one yet.

If you know of any reliable websites I could use for my research, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!