No more history!

I finished the Story of Mankind. I'm glad that's over. I have learned my lesson; I will never again read a history of the world written for children.
On a slightly different note, ACU is missing its copy of Tales from Silver Lands; I'll check it out from the public library soon. Possibly on Thursday. Meanwhile, I read a couple chapters of the next book that ACU does have, Gay Neck: The Story of a Parrot. No, I did not make that up; it's the 1927 Newberry Award winner. I won't read any more of it until we catch up to it though. It didn't exactly wow me, but maybe it gets better.
My hands down favorite so far is still The Dark Frigate; wherein is told the story of Philip Marsham who lived in the time of King Charles and was bred a sailor but came home to England after many hazards by sea and land and fought for the king at Newbury and lost a great inheritance and departed for Barbados in the same ship, by curious chance, in which he had long before adventured with the pirates. Good story.
That is all.