Comments on: Lives in Ruins, Marilyn Johnson

By: Nonfiction November: New to my TBR list | Blog Test 1

Nonfiction November: New to my TBR list | Blog Test 1 — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:57:12 +0000

[…] Lives in Ruins by Marilyn Johnson I know very little about the profession of archaeology, but Marilyn Johnson can fix that. Recommended at Reading the End […]

By: Nonfiction November: New to my TBR list - The Emerald City Book Review

Nonfiction November: New to my TBR list - The Emerald City Book Review — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 12:28:38 +0000

[…] Lives in Ruins by Marilyn Johnson I know very little about the profession of archaeology, but Marilyn Johnson can fix that. Recommended at Reading the End […]

By: nikki @ book punks

nikki @ book punks — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:00:13 +0000

Awww, this book sounds like it is so cute. My Dad is an archaeologist, so I spent a lot of my childhood at digs (aka sitting on piles of dirt reading) or hanging out around bones (reading) and pottery shards (yaawn, reading). It always seemed like such an interesting profession though, even at close range, and I love hearing my Dad talk about it, though the daily work of it is kind of boring. My parents were actually both archaeologists when they met, but my mom decided after a while that the meticulous brushing of dirt from other dirt wasn’t her thing. I know I am WAY too chaotic and non-detail oriented in that scientific sort of way to ever be able to do it.

It was always pretty amusing (and still is, actually, because it continues) when people ask me then if my Dad is like Indiana Jones. Yeah. Totally. Cough cough. Because northeastern native American pottery involves a lot of battles with Nazis and demons and immortal knights.

By: Tanya

Tanya — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:05:56 +0000

Hello, lurker here! This is so timely because I was JUST THIS WEEK feeling a crushing urge to read about archaeologists (maybe a specific life, or the general practice — digging-things-in-Egypt-style). Do you happen to have any other books on archaeologists/archaeology you’d recommend? Apologies for getting to this post late.

By: Nonfiction November Week 2 Roundup! | Regular Rumination

Nonfiction November Week 2 Roundup! | Regular Rumination — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 13:29:41 +0000

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By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:01:20 +0000

For a very brief moment as a child I wanted to be an archaeologist when I grew up but it quickly got tossed out when I decided that being zoologist studying animals for National Geographic would be much more exciting.

By: Brona

Brona — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:20:44 +0000

There’s a fabulous bio about the Leakey family called Ancestral Passions that you might enjoy too.

http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/my-year-in-non-fiction.html

By: samantha1020

samantha1020 — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:47:44 +0000

Of course I am adding this one to my TBR list as I was just saying that I wanted a really good nonfiction read! I pretty much have always wondered what is really at the bottom of the ocean…the places that aren’t easy to get to. Don’t you just wonder what they haven’t discovered yet? This book sounds great! Can’t wait to read it myself!

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:46:40 +0000

You made my day more surreal with the narwhals comment.

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 19:29:59 +0000

In reply to stitchesandmarginalia. Hahahha, awww. What put her off?