Eddie's Fancy

Here’s one big difference vacationing while married versus single, I only read two books.

I haven’t been very enthusiastic about the last couple Stephen Baxter books, too much of the same. Coalescent worked though, jumping back and forth between the present and the past with a brief preview of the future.

George Poole discovers he has a twin sister he never knew about, and she’s living in a human warren under the streets of Rome in a eusocial society, not unlike naked mole rats, that’s been evolving since the fall of the Roman Empire.

Ok, sounds goofy, but it works.

I enjoyed the last book by Philbrick I read, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, and this one was just as good. Some have called it a revisionist history of the Plymouth settlement, but I saw it as more even handed. Neither the Native Americans nor the immigrants were portrayed as wholly good or wholly bad.

I was surprised how quickly the area of New England was settled. Only a hundred and fifty hears from settlement to revolution.

Photos…

A quick jaunt around New England…Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware.

Phew.

Princeton was nice, New York was busy. A great region but I don’t know if I could handle the winters or the population density in the city.