Teaser Tuesday: Grandma Says: Wake Up, World!

I have this masculine consciousness in my body, the men have the women's consciousness, and it needs to balance. The creator said He made us just like Him, so the Creator is man/woman, Grandfather/Grandmother.

-- Grandma Says: Wake Up, World! by Taowhywee, Agnes Baker Pilgrim, published by Blackstone Publishing.

Agnes Baker Pilgrim is a Native American spiritual elder who is the oldest living member of the Takelma Tribe of Oregon. This is a collection of "Grandma Aggie's "wisdom, wit, advice, and stories" told in her own voice.

The audiobook is part of Blackstone Audio's The Legacy Of The First Nation, Voices of a Generation Series. The book is also available in paperback and a Kindle edition.

Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB at Books and a Beat, where you can find the official rules for this weekly event.

Mailbox Monday: Britannia Edition

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday! MM was created by Marcia, who graciously hosted it for a long, long time, before turning it into a touring event. Mailbox Monday has now returned to its permanent home where you can link to your MM post.

I've been on a Brexit inspired book buying spree and have a mountain of used books to show for it. With the exception of the P.D. James mystery from this century, all the books were published in the middle of the last, mostly in the 1950s and '60s.

Starting with the most recently published and working backwards:



The Lighthouse by P.D. James, her 13th Adam Dalgliesh mystery (2005)



Henry and Cato by Iris Murdoch (1976)



The Moon's a Balloon and Bring on the Empty Horses, two volumes of his autobiography reprinted together (1972; 1975)



The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens, which won the Booker Prize (1969)



The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch (1968)



The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch (1964)



The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch (1963)



The Old Men at the Zoo by Andgus Wilson, which is on Anthony Burgess's list of his favorite 99 novels (1961)



The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay (1956)



Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson (1956)



Such Darling Dodos, short stories by Angus Wilson (1950)



England, Their England by A.G. Macdonell (1933)



Lady into Fox by David Garnett, which won the James Tait Black Prize (1922)

Favorite Author: Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters is the pen name of British author Edith Mary Pargeter (1913 – 1995), who is best known for her two mystery series, although she also wrote historical fiction and nonfiction and translated Czech classics.

I'm reading her mystery series featuring police Inspector George Felse. Her medieval-detective series, The Cadfael Chronicles, featuring a Benedictine monk detective, is more popular and was adapted for tv starring Derek Jacobi as Brother Cadfael. I'll get to it one of these days.

Those I have read are in red; those on my TBR shelf are in blue.

Inspector George Felse Series

1. Fallen into the Pit (1951)
2. Death and the Joyful Woman (1961; Edgar Award Winner)
3. Flight of a Witch (1964)
4. A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (1965)
5. The Piper on the Mountain (1966)
6. Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart (1967)
7. The Grass-Widow's Tale (1968)
8. The House of Green Turf (1969)
9. Morning Raga (1969)
10. The Knocker on Death's Door (1970)
11. Death to the Landlords (1972)
12. City of Gold and Shadows (1973)
13. Rainbow's End (1978)

Brother Cadfael Series

1. A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977)
2. One Corpse Too Many (1979)
3. Monk's Hood (1980)
4. St. Peter's Fair (1981)
5. The Leper of St. Giles (1981)
6. The Virgin in the Ice (1982)
7. The Sanctuary Sparrow (1983)
8. The Devil's Novice (1983)
9. Dead Man's Ransom (1984)
10. The Pilgrim of Hate (1984)
11. An Excellent Mystery (1985)
12. The Raven in the Foregate (1986)
13. The Rose Rent (1986)
14. The Hermit of Eyton Forest (1987)
15. The Confession of Brother Haluin (1988)
16. A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (1988; three novellas)
17. The Heretic's Apprentice (1989)
18. The Potter's Field (1989)
19. The Summer of the Danes (1991)
20. The Holy Thief (1992)
21. Brother Cadfael's Penance (1994)

NOTES

If you have any posts about Ellis Peter's books, please leave a comment with a link and  I will list it here.

Favorite Author: Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters is the pen name of British author Edith Mary Pargeter (1913 – 1995), who is best known for her two mystery series, although she also wrote historical fiction and nonfiction and translated Czech classics.

I'm reading her mystery series featuring police Inspector George Felse. Her medieval-detective series, The Cadfael Chronicles, featuring a Benedictine monk detective, is more popular and was adapted for tv starring Derek Jacobi as Brother Cadfael. I'll get to it one of these days.

Those I have read are in red; those on my TBR shelf are in blue.

Inspector George Felse Series

1. Fallen into the Pit (1951)
2. Death and the Joyful Woman (1961; Edgar Award Winner)
3. Flight of a Witch (1964)
4. A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (1965)
5. The Piper on the Mountain (1966)
6. Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart (1967)
7. The Grass-Widow's Tale (1968)
8. The House of Green Turf (1969)
9. Morning Raga (1969)
10. The Knocker on Death's Door (1970)
11. Death to the Landlords (1972)
12. City of Gold and Shadows (1973)
13. Rainbow's End (1978)

Brother Cadfael Series

1. A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977)
2. One Corpse Too Many (1979)
3. Monk's Hood (1980)
4. St. Peter's Fair (1981)
5. The Leper of St. Giles (1981)
6. The Virgin in the Ice (1982)
7. The Sanctuary Sparrow (1983)
8. The Devil's Novice (1983)
9. Dead Man's Ransom (1984)
10. The Pilgrim of Hate (1984)
11. An Excellent Mystery (1985)
12. The Raven in the Foregate (1986)
13. The Rose Rent (1986)
14. The Hermit of Eyton Forest (1987)
15. The Confession of Brother Haluin (1988)
16. A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (1988; three novellas)
17. The Heretic's Apprentice (1989)
18. The Potter's Field (1989)
19. The Summer of the Danes (1991)
20. The Holy Thief (1992)
21. Brother Cadfael's Penance (1994)

NOTES

If you have any posts about Ellis Peter's books, please leave a comment with a link and  I will list it here.

Book Beginning: Grandma Says: Wake Up, World!

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I remember how hard it was when I was a child growing up because in those times, in Lincoln County, there was signs on restaurants and different places where Indians and dogs weren't allowed.

-- Grandma Says: Wake Up, World! by Taowhywee, Agnes Baker Pilgrim, published by Blackstone Publishing. This is a collection of the "wisdom, wit, advice, and stories of 'Grandma Aggie'" the oldest living member of the Takelma Tribe of Oregon.

Agnes Baker Pilgrim is a Native American spiritual elder who lives in Grants Pass, Oregon. She is honored as a "Living Treasure" by the Confederated Tribes of Siletz and the Oregon Council of the Arts calls her a "Living Cultural Legend."

"Grandma Aggie" here speaks in her own voice, telling the stories of her childhood and her tribe, and discussing contemporary issues. The audiobook is part of Blackstone Audio's The Legacy Of The First Nation, Voices of a Generation Series.

Grandma Says: Wake Up, World! is available in paperback, and also in a Kindle edition, although the audiobook recording Agnes Baker Pilgrim's own voice is the best way to experience this work.