Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

AS I SAID, IT’S EVERYWHERE:  Twilight in Paris.

This is the death of the blue model. The death of “government knows”. The death of rule by experts. Let’s not allow them to take us down with them, okay?

I THINK IT’S BECAUSE THEY’RE STARTING TO REALIZE WE’RE NOT BUYING WHAT THEY’RE SELLING:  Kamala’s Not Looking So Good Lately.

And she knows Xi has no patience for failed agents.

FROM BLAKE SMITH:  The Road to Stonberg.

Gavril of Grimsby is not your ordinary monster-slayer for hire…

Gavril thought defeating a giant was the most interesting thing he’d do all week. But when a merchant caravan needs guards for the treacherous journey over the mountains to Stonberg, he can’t resist signing on, and learns that even peaceful men don’t always have peaceful lives.

SOMETIMES I SIT DOWN TO WRITE A POST, BUT WHAT COMES OUT IS…. FROM THE BACK BRAIN:  Everywhere.

And for the record — for the mentally impaired who think to say “I see something coming” is to wish for it — let me be abundantly clear: I don’t want violence. I don’t want destruction. What’s headed for us is going to destroy innocents, burn wealth, and kill billions (most of them in the third world.)  But I now think/feel it’s inescapable.

IT’S ONLY DISMAL IF YOU ASSUME THE JUNTA DOESN’T INTEND TO DESTROY US:  Biden’s Dismal Start .

Btw, their calling the Constitution “White Supremacy” means they’re oath breakers and lied when they swore allegiance  to it. That by definition makes them non-legitimate. Admittedly so. It is also one of the oldest and most vile crimes in any human society.

OR YOU KNOW, THEY COULD LOOK AT HOW THEY DESTROYED THEIR CITIES:  Democrats, Media Blame Trump Over Census Counts, Gov. Cuomo Says He’s Exploring ‘Legal Options’.

Hey, Fredo’s brother, it might be clearer what you did and what is coming down the pike if you remove your head from your behind. Just a thought. I know that stylish chapeaux de derriere are all the rage among the left just now, but trust me, it makes you believe some crazy things.

FROM CELIA HAYES:  The Quivera Trail.

The Quivera Trail is intended as a sequel to the Adelsverein Trilogy,
following the second generation and Dolph Becker courting and marrying Isobel Lindsay-Groves. Desperate to marry, Isobel and her personal maid, Jane Goodacre embark at Southampton for a new life in a new land — a place entirely alien, when compared to the gentle hills and established estates of England. Slowly but surely, the two women begin exploring their new country … and what they themselves are capable of achieving.

Dolph Becker’s uncle Hansi Richter, the ‘cattle baron’ as he is now called, has plans for Dolph and Isobel to establish a new ranch near the Palo Duro, in the
Panhandle region. Once the winter refuge of the Comanche, the Palo Duro
is now open to ranchers and settlers like their neighbor, Charles Goodnight. Dolph and Hansi Richter have an English investor for this new  property – but after a long-trail drive to get there and the labor of establishing it from the ground , they discover that not all dangers of the frontier are banished. The Becker and Richter families are soon embroiled in a vendetta with a vicious rustler gang.

Jane, meanwhile, finds a new outlet in teaching school – and a romantic attraction to Dolph Becker’s artist brother, Sam. She makes friends with Lizzie Johnson, school-teacher and cattle baroness in her own right, and with the formidable matriarch of the family, Magda Vogel Becker. Can  the friendship between Isobel and Jane remain unbroken in the face of these new possibilities?