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Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody #1)
by Elizabeth Peters
~I HAVE DISCOVERED MISS AMELIA PEABODY!~
Egypt is in my heart: they say if you once drank from the Nile, the return to its banks will haunt you forever. I spent a couple of extremely short years in Egypt, mostly in Cairo, with weekend trips out to deserts and sea banks, with numerous 10-15 day long travels all over this land of the mysteries and a thousand cats...
I had a wonderful company and all the possible comforts to endure into such travels, including, oh my, that was a TOTAL luxury! - a shower bag, which you secure on top of your Jeep and it gets so pleasantly hot by the end of the day that you can take your evening shower in much comfort and meet the coolness of the night by the fire, all freshened up :)
Miss Amelia Peabody and her friends did not have such arrangements. They were traveling on donkeys, bringing some comforting things and clothes from the dahabea (boat) to the caves in the Amarna desert, where they soon encountered love and hate, betrayal and some scary... o, I shall stop! It is nearly impossible to tell you about the book without giving up the clever twists and turns of the events!
I will tell you this much: I HATE doing home chores, but listening to this audio book, read BRILLIANTLY by funny, sarcastic, charmingly witty Barbara Rosenblat, I kept on cleaning and washing and folding clothes and even considered making dumplings, for I needed to justify listening to this lovely book to the very end! It made me laugh and brought me quite a lot of nostalgia, too.
The first in the Amelia Peabody series, Crocodile on the Sandbank is written in 1975 and covers the 1884–85 years. I learned that the series go on for another 19 (!!) books with the last one published as recently as in April 2010! "Elizabeth Peters" is a pen name of Barbara Mertz, born in 1927, a PhD in Egyptology (so you can rely on the abundance of facts she presents you with in her books!!) Mrs. Mertz started her writing career with academic books on Egypt; under a pen name of Barbara Michaels she writes Gothic and supernatural thrillers. What a talent!!! I hope she takes a good care of herself and I am sending her loads on Angels to help her be well and sound and continue writing!!! I am quite determined to go onto a second book in the series: The Curse of the Pharaohs, and of course, it is going to be an Audible.com purchase: read by the same narrator, it is going to be quite a treat!
Charm, fun, witty, intelligent: if you want a spec of these in your life.... PLUS getting the chores done quickly and with more pleasure than you have ever had when cleaning your house or walking a dog or running on a treadmill.... then this audio book is for you!
Victoria Evangelina Belyavskaya
by Elizabeth Peters
Victoria Evangelina Belyavskaya's review
bookshelves: audible-com, funny, in-english
Mar 25, 11
bookshelves: audible-com, funny, in-english
Read on March 22, 2011 — I own a copy
~I HAVE DISCOVERED MISS AMELIA PEABODY!~
Egypt is in my heart: they say if you once drank from the Nile, the return to its banks will haunt you forever. I spent a couple of extremely short years in Egypt, mostly in Cairo, with weekend trips out to deserts and sea banks, with numerous 10-15 day long travels all over this land of the mysteries and a thousand cats...
I had a wonderful company and all the possible comforts to endure into such travels, including, oh my, that was a TOTAL luxury! - a shower bag, which you secure on top of your Jeep and it gets so pleasantly hot by the end of the day that you can take your evening shower in much comfort and meet the coolness of the night by the fire, all freshened up :)
Miss Amelia Peabody and her friends did not have such arrangements. They were traveling on donkeys, bringing some comforting things and clothes from the dahabea (boat) to the caves in the Amarna desert, where they soon encountered love and hate, betrayal and some scary... o, I shall stop! It is nearly impossible to tell you about the book without giving up the clever twists and turns of the events!
I will tell you this much: I HATE doing home chores, but listening to this audio book, read BRILLIANTLY by funny, sarcastic, charmingly witty Barbara Rosenblat, I kept on cleaning and washing and folding clothes and even considered making dumplings, for I needed to justify listening to this lovely book to the very end! It made me laugh and brought me quite a lot of nostalgia, too.
The first in the Amelia Peabody series, Crocodile on the Sandbank is written in 1975 and covers the 1884–85 years. I learned that the series go on for another 19 (!!) books with the last one published as recently as in April 2010! "Elizabeth Peters" is a pen name of Barbara Mertz, born in 1927, a PhD in Egyptology (so you can rely on the abundance of facts she presents you with in her books!!) Mrs. Mertz started her writing career with academic books on Egypt; under a pen name of Barbara Michaels she writes Gothic and supernatural thrillers. What a talent!!! I hope she takes a good care of herself and I am sending her loads on Angels to help her be well and sound and continue writing!!! I am quite determined to go onto a second book in the series: The Curse of the Pharaohs, and of course, it is going to be an Audible.com purchase: read by the same narrator, it is going to be quite a treat!
Charm, fun, witty, intelligent: if you want a spec of these in your life.... PLUS getting the chores done quickly and with more pleasure than you have ever had when cleaning your house or walking a dog or running on a treadmill.... then this audio book is for you!
Victoria Evangelina Belyavskaya
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Thank you, Anna! I think Rick would enjoy this one, too: just tell him to go onto my "Library" list on Audible.com :)Hugs and love,
Vika
Barbara Rosenblat is one of the best narrators out there. I've just finished listening to the first Amelia Peabody book and my toes curl at the thought of a whole series ahead of me!PS- Listening to audio books is the only way I do housework too. ;-P
Thank you for sharing your experience with the book, Leanne! I am listening to the Weird Sisters now, OMG it is GREAT! ...lots of chores DONE, lol
You've CLEARLY don it again with this review--which deserves 5 stars! There's a better than good chance that this book too, will be heading onto my wish-list!!!
Much Love,
Anna