She promised him she'd name 'their son' after Jamie's dad, Brian ... so, um. Yeah. I've seen it 'in the wild', pronounced bree-ANN-nah, but Jamie, when he has the chance to actually know of her existence, calls her BRIAN-ah.
There are quite a few books that are much better when you're twelve, I'm finding. And some that I read then that are, nonetheless, still good now (yay!)
Actually, the crunchiest piece of readable nonfiction I've run into recently is "The Little Ice Age" by Brian Fagan. It's about climate, and indirectly climate change, but more about how climate changes US and history and why thinking you can argue with rainfall patterns because you have a DESTINY is stupid. :->
Re: Outlander
Date: 2007-04-13 02:47 am (UTC)There are quite a few books that are much better when you're twelve, I'm finding. And some that I read then that are, nonetheless, still good now (yay!)
Actually, the crunchiest piece of readable nonfiction I've run into recently is "The Little Ice Age" by Brian Fagan. It's about climate, and indirectly climate change, but more about how climate changes US and history and why thinking you can argue with rainfall patterns because you have a DESTINY is stupid. :->