Category: Book Log
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Book Log #70: A River in the Sky, by Elizabeth Peters
The most recent of the long-running Amelia Peabody series, A River in the Sky, is also unfortunately thus far the weakest for me in the series to date. Like Guardian of the Horizon, it’s one of the “lost journals” of the Emerson saga, going back and filling in gaps of time between previously written books.…
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Book Log #69: Guardian of the Horizon, by Elizabeth Peters
By publishing order, Guardian of the Horizon is book #16 of the Amelia Peabody series. Chronologically, however, it is book #11, falling in time not too long after The Ape Who Guards the Balance. It’s one of two (as of the writing of this review) books that fill in the gap of time between Balance…
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Book Log #68: The Ape Who Guards the Balance, by Elizabeth Peters
The tenth Amelia Peabody novel, The Ape Who Guards the Balance, opens with one of my very favorite scenes in the entire series: Amelia barging out to participate in a suffragette rally in London, ready, willing, and even eager to get herself arrested for the cause of women’s rights. Never mind how she winds up…
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Book Log #67: Seeing a Large Cat, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 4 of 5 stars The ninth book of the Amelia Peabody series, Seeing a Large Cat, is a significant turning point in the overall saga of the Emerson family. It’s the first of the internal quartet of books that follows the arc of the love story between Ramses and Nefret, and it’s also…
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Book Log #66: The Hippopotamus Pool, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Truth be told, it’d been so long since I’d read The Hippopotamus Pool, book 8 of the Amelia Peabodies, that I’d totally forgotten what it was about–and in particular, that it introduced the critical character of David Todros, grandson of Abdullah, the Emerson family’s reis. After recently re-reading it,…
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Book Log #65: The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 5 of 5 stars I have frequently admitted that I am a sucker for an amnesia plot, that grand old staple of television series and of romance novels–and yeah, Elizabeth Peters has one, too. That would be The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog, Book 7 of the Amelia Peabodies, in which Emerson…
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So if you want to read the Amelia Peabodies
asked me about this, so I thought I’d do a longer post on the topic of which books in the Amelia Peabodies are more skippable than others if you want to read the series but are finding it slow going. Book 1, Crocodile on the Sandbank. Not optional. After all, it’s how Amelia and Emerson…
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Book Log #64: The Last Camel Died at Noon, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 5 of 5 stars You really need to point at Book 6 of the Amelia Peabodies, The Last Camel Died at Noon, as one of the pivotal books of the series–because it’s here that arguably the most important character in the entire cast (aside from, of course, the Emersons themselves) is introduced. The…
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Book Log #63: The Deeds of the Disturber, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 5 of 5 stars In a series that’s famous for being primarily set in Egypt, The Deeds of the Disturber, Book 5 of the Amelia Peabodies, is quite distinctive in that it’s set in England during the off-season, when the Emerson family is between digs. It also has the good fortune of being…
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Book Log #62: Lion in the Valley, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 4 of 5 stars If you pick and choose only a selection of the Amelia Peabody books to read, one of your choices must indisputably be Lion in the Valley, book 4 of the series. This introduces one of the most critical recurring characters to show up all throughout the books: as Amelia…