What is Steampunk?

Earlier today, my mom asked me this question. Steampunk is, according to Wikipedia,

a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. 

link here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

Did you understand any of that? Yeah, wipe that drool of your face while I break it down further. Steampunk is an off shoot of Scifi. It involves modern-style tech that is (Wait for it, Yes a Hamilton reference!) Steam powered. There is also a lot of corsets (like way too many for my comfort).

Steampunk is also a style. Pics below:

       

 This is some of the less extreme stuff I found. As a book genre, I have only read one and that was a Steampunk meets Bollywood novel named Third Daughter by Susan Kaye Quinn. I haven't read the other too novels in her series, The Royals of Dharia. While I really liked the book , I'm not a fan of the genre so..... sorry?

I felt like you all should know what I think about this genre. I will admit that some of the gowns are cool, but I'd have to be desperate for clothes to put on a corset. I like breathing. And eating. And did I forget to mention breathing?

If any of you, my dear readers, love the style and/or genre, please feel free to tell me all about it. On the flip side, if you hate it with a passion most pure, spill! I'm here to listen. Ciao!

Music and books, again

Hi All!

Today, I heard this wonderful song by Lin-Manuel Miranda to benefit hurricane relief for Puerto Rico. Singing with him were Marc Anthony, Ruben Blades, Camila Cabello, Pedro Capo, Dessa,Fat Joe, Luis Fonsi, Juan Luis Guerra, Alex Lacamoire, John Leguizamo, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno, Ednita Nazario, Joell Ortiz, Anthony Ramos, Gina Rodriguez, Gilberto Santa Rosa, PJ Sin Suela, Tommy Torres, Ana Villafañe Marc Anthony, Ednita Nazario, Pedro Capo, Jennifer Lopez and Gloria Estefan. I loved Hamilton and I loved this song.

 Don't you just love it?

I read the second book in the Little Bookshop series. If ever I felt gooey, it was while reading True Love at the Lonely Hearts Bookshop. I made me feel like a chance meeting can really bring true love.

I also started reading The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson. Y'all, this book is good. Know what else is good? The One Cent Magenta by James Barron. I honestly didn't think a single stamp could be that interesting. Thank you, Mr. Barron for proving that a stamp can be as crazy interesting as its many varied owners.

If any of you have read any of the above mentioned books, please feel free to leave a comment. Or a string of really weird emocons. 

Totally Should be a Movie!

I have just finished the most wonderful story. The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts by Annie Darling (cover below) is a swoony romcom in the making. Sebastian and Posy's dialogue is sharp, witty and full of undeniable attraction. I am having trouble imagining the dream cast for this, so comments below people.

Pulpitist Update# ?

Well, it's that time of year when the days are hot and the nights are cool. My mouth hates it. Today has been a series of throbs, like the pulp wants to swell but won't. The result, I have been a cranky person all day long. So much so that my one of my brothers asked me "What is up with you today?".
The answer to that is ... um... everything. You can't win when your teeth throb from the very freakin' air.

I finished Crimson Roses by Grace Livingston Hill. It was as good as any book from her would be. I started another of her books, Not under the Law. Good,too.

And now readers and bots alike, I bid you farewell. Leave a comment below, or not. Up to you.

Grace Livingston Hill

Hi, Readers and bots alike! I would like to talk about one of my favorite christian romance writers, Grace Livingston Hill. Mrs.Hill has been both an inspiration and guide to girls and boys across the world.


Grace Livingston Hill was born April 16, 1865 in Wellsville, New York to the Rev.Charles Montgomery Livingston and his wife, Marcia Macdonald Livingston. Both were writers. Even her aunt, Isabella Macdonald Alden, was a writer who wrote under the pseudonym "Pansy." As you can see, writing was in her blood.


Her career as a writer began as a child in the 1870's. She wrote short stories for her aunt's magazine for children. She continued to write as she grew older. When she died in February 1947, she left only one work unfinished.
 Her daughter, Ruth completed the novel. All in all, Mrs. Hill is credited with over a hundred works.

Below is a list of her books that I've read or listened to (the dates are when they were published, not when I read them):

• Marcia Schuyler (1908)
• Phoebe Deane (1909)
• Miranda (1915)
• A Daily Rate (1900)
• An Unwilling Guest (1902)
• Aunt Crete's Emancipation (1911)
• Dawn of the Morning (1911)
• Lo, Michael! (1913)
• The Best Man (1914) 
• The Finding of Jasper Holt (1916)
• The Enchanted Barn (1917)
• Exit Betty (1919)
• Cloudy Jewel (1920)
• The Tryst (1921)
•  The Girl from Montana (1922)

I am currently reading  Crimson Roses (1928) and it's really good.
 If you have a favorite Grace Livingston Hill book you think I should check out, leave a comment below. 

History can be cool

I am currently reading What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew by Daniel Pool. I am finding it wonderfully enlightening. I have read a LOT of nineteenth century lit and there were things I didn't quite get. Thanks to Mr.Pool's book, now I do.

Pulpitist update: So, I am currently without pain! Sweet, right? I am making sure I space out the hot and cold foods because not doing so is what caused it. Soups and Smoothies should never go together people.

If you want, leave a comment below. If not, whateves. I'm trying not to be needy here. 

An early goodbye letter to Summer days that is probably too early

As we head to mid August, I just want to say Thank you Summer, for making me so hot, I feel sick to my stomach.  Thank you for heat headaches as well. I lost a few pounds due to you, so that is really nice. I will try not to mind the sweat so much but I am only human sooo........ Yeah, I won't go there.

Summer, in my not so long ago youth, I looked forward to the freedom that came with your coming. Now, I want a bucket of ice and a place to hide 'til you are gone. It's not that I don't like you, I do. But you like to be hard on a body and I don't like that.

So please don't take offense when I say that I am ready for Fall. Fall is kinder, milder. I do look forward to seeing you next year. 

I hope you all enjoyed my faux letter. Comments below, Y'all!