Oh, sure.  Us mid-Pacific or Mittel-Europa types may be inconvenienced, but we’ll just have to suck it up.

What the heck is a “neith?”

Yes, you will and you WILL like it.

You’re the second person who asked about the word neith in the last few days and I had plum forgotten that I’d stuck her in the word list. Neith was/is a complex Egyptian goddess. She was the goddess of war and weaving and the hunt. She also was the guardian of the dead, especially war dead and pharaohs. She might be one with whom tomb raiders might have to unhappily deal. At some point along the way, she was depicted as androgynous and believed to be the creator of all life. Some say she was the mother of Ra and others think she was a different incarnation of Hathor. She was a busy woman (or it, depending).

Hmm.  Since I’m in the midst of reading my latest mystery find I’ll have to keep a sharp eye out for her name, since the stories are all Egyptology-related.

Ha.  Speaking of, the word this time is “Isis,” which I certainly DO recognize.

Neith also goes by the names Nit, Net, and Neit.

I’m going to tuck into the Amelia Peabody series. Sounds like a cozy winter project. Do you also have the The Compendium? My public library has the entire series, but the first three books are available in audio format only. I’m even allowed to download and burn each onto a CD. That’s a new feature. Not sure if they self destruct at the end of 7 days or what, but I was surprised by that. I love my library consortium. They went digital a couple of years ago and I can search their entire catalog, and reserve/renew anything online. They also allow me to keep a tidy, categorized list of what I’ve read and maintain a list of books I want to read. I love the internet!

Nope, I haven’t read the compendium.  My library has digitized its catalog too; I can reserve online, make lists of books I want (I wish they’d let me sub-categorize the list, but hey...), and ask for inter-library loans from other locations.

Apparently the person doing the audiobooks has been given high marks from Elizabeth Peters.

As I said in my post, you really should read them in order.  They can stand alone, because there’s kind of a two-paragraph synopsis in each book of what went before, but you really don’t get the flavor that way.

I was ever so glad when I moved back here to find that the libraries are all online in this area! In Ca it was a must. Unless you went in to the bigger cities, the libraries, small small small. I never walked in their doors until I got my email that the book was there lol.
Did you get my email by the way?

I hate groping around in the dark. I hope you’re up and roaring on Sunday.

I’ll leave the night light on fer ya so you don’t stub your toes, Pablo.

Yep, I got your email, J. And answered it.

I hadn’t used the library here very much in the last several years. It was horribly inconvenient because there was no parking available. Now that they have a parking lot, it helps enormously. And, with the new online search and reservation/renewal features, I’m much more likely to use the library. The new addition also let them expand and improve their collection. For a small town, it’s a pretty grand library.

Linkmeister, I’m now into Chapter 2 (audio) of Crocodile on the Sandbank. This is wicked cool. Thanks for the recommendation. This is going to be a really fun series.

"Just you wait, ‘Enry ‘Iggins, just you wait.” There are a couple of books in the series that the Amazon reviewers think are clunkers, but most of them get rave reviews.

I’m impressed with how she gets the end-of-Victorian era language right (or what I think of as right).