tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87090048767348129532024-03-13T11:01:03.792-07:00betsy reads booksI read. I write. I read about writing. I write about reading. Welcome to my blog! (Follow me on Twitter @betsyreadsbooks)Betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15316849918018436860noreply@blogger.comBlogger406125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-88510525511599446072015-10-14T14:24:00.001-07:002015-10-14T14:24:12.104-07:00It's MLB playoffs. What are you reading?Recommended reading during the World Series playoffs:<br />
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<em><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684847957/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0684847957&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=ITEVKEQIA5QNMNOC">Wait Till Next Year - A Memoir</a><img src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0684847957" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />">Wait Till Next Year</a></em>, Doris Kearns Goodwin (earned one of my only Goodreads' five stars this year)<br />
<em><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DB2YN9I/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00DB2YN9I&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=TWPCQ55UCZ6PDTKT">This Dark Road to Mercy: A Novel</a><img src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00DB2YN9I" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />">This Dark Road to Mercy</a></em>, Wiley Cash (earned one of my only other Goodreads' five stars this year)<br />
<em><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009O2LN6A/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B009O2LN6A&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=WJBMYO2UBMM6HFYF">Calico Joe by Grisham, John [Hardcover]</a><img src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B009O2LN6A" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />">Calico Joe</a></em>, John Grisham<br />
<em><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036S4DQA/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0036S4DQA&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=3RZXXXU774QZAFDR">The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron</a><img src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0036S4DQA" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />">The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron</a></em>, Howard Bryant<br />
<em><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GSJU1A/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001GSJU1A&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=7747FT27KFM6RURU">Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back</a><img src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B001GSJU1A" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />">Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back</a></em>, Josh Hamilton<br />
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What other baseball books have you read?<br />
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And, Go Cubs!betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758167626056302678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-25761068229472462942015-10-03T18:49:00.001-07:002017-04-19T06:39:08.627-07:00Gun Violence in Literature - A Sign of the Times? I've just read both <i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OZ0TLQA/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00OZ0TLQA&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=BZEJH242CTKJGSQI%22%3EIn%20the%20Language%20of%20Miracles:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00OZ0TLQA%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">In the Language of Miracles</a></i> (<a href="http://betsyrm.blogspot.com/2015/08/book-review-in-language-of-miracles-by.html">review</a> here) and Jenny Hubbard's <i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EBRU0IA/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00EBRU0IA&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=5SLKGMSIT2CBZGAP%22%3EAnd%20We%20Stay%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00EBRU0IA%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">And We Stay</a></i>. Both books focus on those left behind in a tragedy, and a high school shooting tragedy in particular.<br />
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(Fun side note: <a href="http://www.jennyhubbard.com/">Jenny Hubbard</a> and I have the same alma mater, <a href="http://www.meredith.edu/">Meredith College</a>, and she was an English major like me. You should follow her on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/HubbardWrites">@hubbardwrites</a>.)<br />
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I can't imagine how tough it would be on a girl like Emily, the main character in <i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EBRU0IA/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00EBRU0IA&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=5SLKGMSIT2CBZGAP%22%3EAnd%20We%20Stay%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00EBRU0IA%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">And We Stay</a></i>, to witness her boyfriend's suicide in the school library, and within a few days she's been forced by her family to undergo an abortion and has been transported from her school where she knows everyone and where her support system is, to a private all-girls boarding school in another state. She's forced to figure out what about her story to tell and what to keep private. She's forced to make new friends, go to new classes and be away from her family. She's fortunate to land a roommate who respects her privacy and cares about Emily.<br />
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But most of this tragedy Emily must bear and sort through emotionally alone. She finds solace in her own poetry writing and that of Emily Dickinson, a former student at , now Amherst School for Girls in Amherst, Massachusetts. As it turns out, Emily Beam is a good poet on her own and is encouraged by her peers and one of her teachers to enter her work in a contest.<br />
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It's this support system who helps Emily dig out of her deepest despair, and by the end of the book we get the sense that she'll be OK. <br />
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Our country has experienced some terrible gun violence in recent months. It's my hope that with time, love and support, those affected will all be OK just like Emily and the tragic family in <i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OZ0TLQA/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00OZ0TLQA&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=BZEJH242CTKJGSQI%22%3EIn%20the%20Language%20of%20Miracles:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00OZ0TLQA%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">In the Language of Miracles</a></i>. <br />
<br />betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758167626056302678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-27151325086377452722015-08-24T04:30:00.000-07:002015-08-24T04:30:02.958-07:00A Recent (and Fun!) Read: The Art Forger by BA ShapiroA year and a half ago I read <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001BAKUXA/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001BAKUXA&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=2WVQCZIHPBMBCWXX%22%3EThe%20Forger%27s%20Spell%20(P.S.)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B001BAKUXA%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>The Forger's Spell</i></a> by <a href="http://betsyrm.blogspot.com/2014/01/recent-read-forgers-spell-by-edward.html">Edward Dolnick</a>. I'd just visited Atlanta's <a href="http://www.high.org/">High Museum of Art</a>'s Dutch painters exhibit. I
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Pearl Earring" as the last painting in the exhibit. I had built the book up and was so excited to read it, but was disappointed. <br />
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<i>The Forger's Spell</i> was a let down. Only a few parts interested me as a person who enjoys art but can only draw stick figures (my recent visit to a BYOB and paint-your-own-canvas thing produced a piece I'm not sure is worth hanging in my house).<br />
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Fast forward to this summer. I borrowed <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AFKISKO/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00AFKISKO&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=W3Y3DK57QZPFPFRU%22%3EThe%20Art%20Forger:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00AFKISKO%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>The Art Forger</i></a> by <a href="http://bashapirobooks.com/">B. A. Shapiro</a> from a friend, and this book has made up for the other in a sense. The book begins 25 years after the robbery of the <a href="http://www.gardnermuseum.org/home/">Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum</a> in Boston (right about now). A talented painter named Claire has been trying to make it as an artist and win back a good reputation after accusations of a forging a painting a few years before. To earn money to supplement her own original works, Claire is paid to paint copies of famous paintings sold as fakes online by a large retailer. When she's approached by a trusted friend from the art world with a secret project with a large paycheck, Claire struggles to make a decision that's ethical and true to herself.<br />
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While I'd still be interested to read an interesting nonfiction book about the underground world of forging the works of famous artists, and the theft at the Gardner Museum, I enjoyed this book. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AFKISKO/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00AFKISKO&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=W3Y3DK57QZPFPFRU%22%3EThe%20Art%20Forger:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00AFKISKO%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>The Art Forger</i></a> was fun fiction, and was just the right amount of art for a person like me with good pacing and a character I could understand.<br />
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It's an interesting time to be reading a book like <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AFKISKO/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00AFKISKO&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=W3Y3DK57QZPFPFRU%22%3EThe%20Art%20Forger:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00AFKISKO%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>The Art Forger</i></a>, as the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the U.S. Department of Justice have just released <a href="http://www.gardnermuseum.org/FILE/5897.pdf">new information</a> on the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/aug/07/fbi-isabella-stewart-gardner-museum-art-theft-suspects-dead?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other">heist </a>this month. The two men who stole some of the world's most valuable paintings are now confirmed dead, though their names haven't been released. Now the investigation to locate those paintings continues.<br />
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Here's hoping they catch the thief and someone writes a good book about how they got away with it. betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758167626056302678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-80460078174188289772015-08-20T14:06:00.001-07:002015-08-20T14:06:58.488-07:00Book Review: In the Language of Miracles by Rajia Hassib<br />
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Page Count: 272</div>
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The Al-Menshawys, who immigrated to the United States from Egypt 15 years before, are living the American dream. Father Samir, mother Nagla, grandmother Ehsan, and teenage children Khaled, Hossam and Fatima are living comfortably in a suburban small town outside of New York City. For over a decade they've been best friends with the Bradstreets next door. Hossam's relationship with the Bradstreets' daughter Natalie has become more than a friendship until suddenly and violently, the worlds of both families are changed forever. What the Al-Menshawys chalked up to teenage moodiness was more serious than they anticipated. When Natalie ends their relationship, Hossam takes her life and his own in a nearby park. <br />
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When the book begins, these two families have spent the year since the deaths of their children quietly removed from each other. The Al-Menshawys have carefully navigated their community. Samir's medical practice has suffered, Ehsan is keeping house while Nagla is still coming to terms with what has happened and Khaled is still getting harassed at school.<br />
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To commemorate the anniversary of their daughter's death, Jim and Cynthia are planning a tree planting and a memorial service at the park, and the public has been invited to attend. As a courtesy, Cynthia stops by the Al-Menshawys to make sure they're aware of the service. It's the first time the two families have spoken in a year.<br />
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Though the Al-Menshawys have grieved and struggled to make sense of Hossam's actions, the anniversary of the deaths brings to the surface the emotions that each family member individually has tried to keep quiet.<br />
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I liked so many things about <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OZ0TLQA/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00OZ0TLQA&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=6S57Q3DWRONPBUKG%22%3EIn%20the%20Language%20of%20Miracles:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00OZ0TLQA%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>In the Language of Miracles</i></a>. The back-and-forth of the storyline works well as a structure, as it keeps the information dripping out for the reader a little at a time. I liked learning about the Egyptian culture of the Al-Menshawys and how it both changed and stayed the same as they settled into their American life. I liked this family of sad, believable characters. Hassib wrote convincingly about three different generations that although they still lived together under one roof, they were growing further apart. <br />
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This book is a good reminder to appreciate and forgive cultural differences, realize that the grief process goes on long after a funeral service has ended and that everyone handles a loved one's death in their own time and on their own terms. This book is a good reminder to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, as you never know what they may be facing underneath the surface. </div>
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If you liked this book, you’ll like <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036S4ALS/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0036S4ALS&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=YQOEC4S2O5NQHICO%22%3EZeitoun%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0036S4ALS%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Zeitoun</i> </a>by Dave Eggers and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EBRU0IA/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00EBRU0IA&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=ZHNBLKHDOMEOJ4OF%22%3EAnd%20We%20Stay%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00EBRU0IA%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>And We Stay</i></a> by Jenny Hubbard.<br />
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betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758167626056302678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-77869532064379394792015-07-24T13:10:00.002-07:002015-07-24T13:10:47.325-07:00Book Review: Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee So many people have asked me for my take on Harper Lee's <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062409859/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0062409859&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=II6RIVZKZ25COTFK">Go Set a Watchman: A Novel</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0062409859" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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The short version: I really, really enjoyed it. I started it almost as soon as it arrived Tuesday a week ago and finished it about 48 hours later.<br />
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The long version: <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K0OI42W/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00K0OI42W&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=TAESQJT64CLFUUQM">To Kill a Mockingbird</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00K0OI42W" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
</i> is my favorite book. Ever. When that is where the bar is set, everything else falls short of it. <i>GSW</i> is not <i>TKM</i>. But, it's a story that helped me feel satisfied, for the most part, about how characters turned out (<i>GSW</i> is set about 20 years after <i>TKM </i>in the 1950s). The best part about getting to revisit some of American literature's most memorable characters is that we get to see what tomboyish, precocious Scout is like as an adult. The best parts about her haven't changed. She's still sassy and she's still thinking for herself.<br />
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Scout's heart is still the same, but when she returns home for a long visit to Maycomb, Alabama, from New York City, she's aghast that it's not the same place she remembers from growing up there (Thomas Wolfe, anyone?). That's something I can relate to. After almost three decades in one county in North Carolina, I relocated to suburban Atlanta. My visits back were often at first, but since the first couple of years, the time between visits has increased. Now I go back once or twice a year. Something amazes me each time. Downtown Raleigh has become a place with great restaurants and other places to go after work and on the weekends instead of the ghost town it was after 5:00 15 years ago. The nearby town where I went to elementary, middle and high school has changed dramatically. Young families <i>actually move there</i> from Raleigh because it's a great place that's tripled in population size since I was in high school. I could go on.<br />
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What some readers and critics have focused on is the difference we see in Atticus, who is, in <i>GSW</i> an elderly man who has passed the torch on to another, younger lawyer but still shows up to his law firm most days. He's still a pillar in the community. Just as Scout sneaked up to the courthouse balcony to watch her father defend Tom Robinson, she finds her same spot one afternoon to see where all the men in town have gone. As it turns out, it's a meeting that has a pro-segregation bent to it.<br />
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Don't many of us have an idealized notion of who are parents are and what they stand for when we're kids? At some point, for most of us, that changes. Suddenly, we find out that our parents are real people. And most of the time, real people are complicated. Discovering who are parents actually are as people is a big part of what it means to grow up.<br />
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Seeing Scout as a grown up is my favorite thing about <i>GSW</i>. betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758167626056302678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-4822777679256592082015-07-15T07:12:00.000-07:002015-07-15T07:12:31.058-07:00Go Set a Watchman - I'm reading. Are you?Yesterday was a great day. Around midday, my mail carrier dropped off what I've been looking forward to receiving for months.<br />
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Are you reading <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062409859/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0062409859&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=LI54ETVXWVABW77N%22%3EGo%20Set%20a%20Watchman:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0062409859%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Go Set a Watchman</i></a>, or are you planning to?betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758167626056302678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-74501335716004621382015-06-29T17:59:00.000-07:002015-06-29T17:59:07.644-07:00Book Review: Re Jane by Patricia Park<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00O2BS54Q/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00O2BS54Q&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=FENNKAUKGZFOIT4D%22%3ERe%20Jane:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00O2BS54Q%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Re Jane</i></a> by Patricia Park<br />
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<br />Jane is a college graduate living in Queens, NY, with her uncle and his family, and working in the family business, an international grocery store, while she is job hunting. As she is unappreciated and brushed aside by her uncle and his family, they are the only family she has outside of Korea. When a friend shows her a want ad for an au pair in Brooklyn, she puts her dreams of a job on finance on hold and applies for the job. This live-in job will ensure that she can quit her job at the family business and move out from under her uncle's roof.<br />
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In her new role, Jane is caregiver for Devon, the Chinese adopted daughter of Ed Farley and Beth Mazer, two professors. In their home, she is out from the watchful eye of her uncle and his high expectations that she'll act according to her Korean upbringing. Jane feels freer to be herself and forms a friendship with Ed over late-night conversations in the kitchen, which develops into a deeper relationship. As Jane is falling more deeply in love, she and her New York family are summoned to Seoul for a family funeral. <br />
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Jane stays in Seoul longer than expected, and while she is gone, September 11, 2001 happens in New York City, changing everything. She finds a job teaching English and makes new friends. In Seoul, Jane also becomes more self-assured. Her time in Korea makes Jane's attempt to balance the two parts of her life (Korean and American) and her family's wishes with her own even more difficult.<br />
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Overall, I liked this modern interpretation of <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0082RHRHC/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0082RHRHC&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=FLEGKPAKKXNHIM2B%22%3EJane%20Eyre%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0082RHRHC%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Jane Eyre</i></a>. As a modern woman, I wished Jane had a stronger resolve against her attraction to her boss. I was disappointed that she was so intrigued with Ed without getting a connection from his end. I found their relationship to be creepy, as Beth wasn't the madwoman in the attic but a very present parent in the same household as this developing romance. Ed went back to Beth, which I expected. Becomes more self-assured once she spends time in Seoul. She's tired of doing what's expected of her. Jane leaves Ed. She knows she can do better for herself. He knows it too.<br />
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I very much enjoyed watching Jane navigate her world, which included living in two cultures and balancing what she wanted to do with her life with what she was expected to do. By the end of the book, I was satisfied with the decisions she made for herself. And, even though she dreamed of a job in finance, she made a good au pair and I liked watching a warm relationship with Devon develop. <br />
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<i>Three and a half out of five stars</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I’m a big
fan of libraries going back as far as childhood. This won’t surprise any of you
who know how much I love to read. Growing up, my mom, sister and I visited our
library about once a week in the summer, and I distinctly remember when I could
write enough to fill out the form to get my own library card. I was probably
about 7 or 8. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A year and a half ago, the latest
library branch in my county near Atlanta opened up. It’s beautiful.
Every time I stop in I’m amazed at how many people are in there. In that
community room on the left as you go in, it’s almost never empty. I’ve walked
by county commissioners’ lunches, genealogy workshops, knitting classes and
book clubs going on in there. I’m glad to see that libraries
are noticing that patrons sometimes want a little something different from what
a library has traditionally offered. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you can remember back a few
months to the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, over the killing of Michael Brown,
the 18-year-old African American male, by a police officer, while most of the
news coverage was focused on the protesters, the property damage and the police
officer, did you notice that the Ferguson Library made the
news? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <a href="http://www.ferguson.lib.mo.us/">Ferguson library</a> was
determined to stay open to provide a place to go for people who didn’t have one
and to be a pillar for this crumbling community. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">According to <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/ferguson-library-refuge-adults-children-amid-strife/story?id=25050930">ABC News,</a> after
Michael Brown’s death on August 9, the Ferguson Library used their social media
platforms to tell Ferguson residents that they were open to provide respite for
those who needed a place to go, a place to check email and a place to get a
bottle of water. Their tweet read, “We are here for all of our residents. If
you want to come, get water, read, check email, we are here….” That week while
schoolchildren were delayed in starting their school year, people came to the
library seeking a safe community. Teachers who were unable to start their
school year, showed up at the library to meet their students and give lessons
to any children who wanted them. One hundred and twenty children came to be with teachers that
week. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In November, a writer named
<a href="https://twitter.com/iSmashFizzle">Ashley Ford</a> who lives in Brooklyn noticed this and tweeted out that her way of
helping the people of Ferguson was to donate money to their library. Her idea caught
fire online and was retweeted numerous times. I happened to notice it the
Tuesday before Thanksgiving and I kept coming back to Twitter to see people’s
messages and the Ferguson Library’s tweets about how committed they are to
their community. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">According to the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-ferguson-library-donations-top-350000-20141209-story.html"><i>Los Angeles Times</i></a>, in a matter of weeks,
$350,000 had been donated to the Ferguson Library, and they have been the
recipient of numerous book drives from around the country. $350,000 represents
about 85% of their annual budget. With this money, for example, just this week,
they have hired two full-time children’s librarians. No doubt they’ll be able
to do countless other great things with this money. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The library continues to stay
active on social media. Recently they've posted inspiring
quotations by Martin Luther King, Jr., advertised that they have free
after school tutoring and talked about their most recent award, the MLK Drum Major for
Service Award, presented by President Obama. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And meanwhile, they’re still
tweeting out uplifting happy messages from a town still in need of a lot of
healing. For example, one of this week’s tweets has been: “Life can throw some
pretty hard challenges but kids who read learn to believe in themselves.”</span></span><br />
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betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758167626056302678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-12955736328016373452014-12-15T18:27:00.000-08:002015-02-01T14:10:28.827-08:00Another visit to the Little Free LibraryOver Thanksgiving break I was with my family again at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, where I once again stopped by the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LittleFreeLibraryOnTheLoop">Little Free Library on the Loop</a> to see what there. I donated my most recent review book, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00INIQRLC/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00INIQRLC&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=7446AMDAFAP6UBK4%22%3ELena%20Finkle%27s%20Magic%20Barrel:%20A%20Graphic%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00INIQRLC%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel</i></a> by Anya Ulinich.<span id="btAsinTitle"></span> It's fun to think about who might read it next.<br />
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<a href="http://littlefreelibrary.org/">Little Free Library</a> is a wonderful thing. Is there one in your neighborhood?betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758167626056302678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-89691284320931404762014-11-23T15:35:00.002-08:002014-11-23T15:35:32.137-08:00Book Review: Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel by Anya Ulinich<br />
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Page Count: 368</div>
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Genre: fiction, graphic novel</div>
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My Review:<br />
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Lena Finkle, recently divorced, is navigating a new world. She's raising her two teenage daughters on her own and she's dating for the first time since the Internet was commonplace. She chronicles her dating life in this graphic novel, nicknaming each of the men she dates, as well as her own personal journey to find fulfillment as a mother, author, teacher and significant other. She has a tough go at it. Most of the men don't work out like she hopes, even the one ex-boyfriend who has never quite left her life and with whom she finally may have a chance at love. <br />
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Before <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00INIQRLC/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00INIQRLC&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=ZDL7NPBGPLDNCK4A%22%3ELena%20Finkle%27s%20Magic%20Barrel:%20A%20Graphic%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00INIQRLC%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Lena Finkle</i></a>, I've never read a graphic novel. Several of my students are interested in them, and this seemed like a fun one to try out first. Not that I didn't enjoy the plot, but I was surprisingly drawn to the pictures and liked the detail involved in each one. Facial expressions, for one, were really useful in telling me more about what a character was thinking a feeling. And, it was fun to have speech bubbles and thought bubbles above a character's head in the same frame. I thought the way Ulinich used a semblance of a journal-like notebook to convey flashbacks and background information was creative and great, as side notes from the forward motion of the plot that made sense visually. <br />
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While I can't say I can relate well on a personal level to Lena's life as a single mom, immigrant, author and dater, I enjoyed her story and the way Ulinich chose to tell it. <br />
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<i>Three out of five stars</i></div>
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betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758167626056302678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-77486897252791104022014-11-17T17:46:00.000-08:002014-11-17T17:51:15.291-08:00Do the classics get better as we age?One of my favorite classes in high was (not surprisingly I'm sure) my freshman English class. With Mrs. Reardon I experienced for the first time <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451621701/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1451621701&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=POYIQACXRRK35OV3%22%3ERomeo%20and%20Juliet%20(Folger%20Shakespeare%20Library)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1451621701%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Romeo and Juliet</i></a> and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1619492237/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1619492237&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=CFXKYUUUP7XGC3OK%22%3EA%20Midsummer%20Night%27s%20Dream%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1619492237%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>A Midsummer Night's Dream</i></a>, <i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0083ZF266/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0083ZF266&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=U3VGMXKIRVQ5HXZ6%22%3EThe%20Lady,%20or%20the%20Tiger?%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0083ZF266%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">The Lady or the Tiger</a></i>, <i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004TQMLN0/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004TQMLN0&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=JSAK73IRYVZ5F4YZ%22%3EShort%20Story%20Classics%20(American)%20Vol.%202%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B004TQMLN0%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">The Lottery</a></i>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140268863/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0140268863&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=FGIS6OZXCGOUESUK%22%3EThe%20Odyssey%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0140268863%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>The Odyssey</i></a> and countless other important works of literature. One of them, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N4EAC9S/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00N4EAC9S&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=KSU36JOJZIUMYSWT%22%3ETo%20Kill%20a%20Mockingbird,%2050th%20Anniversary%20Edition%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00N4EAC9S%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i></a>, quickly turned into a favorite of mine. In fact, I revisited it again in college and wrote my undergraduate thesis on its critical response. <br />
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Near the end of our time in Mrs. Reardon's class she mentioned that she and a fellow teacher had recently discussed whether or not <i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i> was wasted on high school freshmen. Were we really capable of digesting all of the complicated themes and grown-up world ideas as 14 year-olds? Of course we thought we were, and we told her so.<br />
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Since that first reading more than 20 years ago, I've read the book several more times, and Mrs. Reardon was right. With more life experience, the book means more to me each time I read it.<br />
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Fast forward to last week. With my American Literature class at the homeschool co-op where I teach once a week, we began discussion of Willa Cather's <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A73AIA2/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00A73AIA2&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=X32DXXSFQJCICOUH%22%3EMy%20%C3%81ntonia%20(Dover%20Thrift%20Editions)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00A73AIA2%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>My Antonia</i></a>. Cather is one of my favorites too. I find her prose lovely. It really makes me want to visit Nebraska and see those rolling prairies for myself (one day).<br />
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If you're not familiar with <i>My Antonia</i>, the basics with regard to the point I'm making involve a narrator named Jim looking back on his time growing up on his grandparents' rural Nebraska farm, particularly around a special friend he made, Antonia, who was the oldest daughter of Bohemian immigrants on a nearby farm. There is some question of whether Jim falls in love with Antonia (it makes for good class discussion).<br />
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But, years later, Jim is a successful New York City attorney, and his job requires some travel across the country. On one trip out west he arranges to visit his hometown. He's heard bits and pieces from Antonia and about her over the years, but it's been decades since they've seen each other. He borrows a horse and buggy and drives out to the farm where she lives with her now-husband and nearly a dozen children. Antonia is surprised and happy to see him. Jim relishes their time together catching up and meeting her children.<br />
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Jim is struck by how time and hard work on the farm have changed her appearance, though her personality has remained very much the same. After their visit, Jim returns back to his life in New York City and his wife.<br />
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During our class discussion last week, I had a Mrs. Reardon moment when I almost let slip out of my mouth, "Read this book again right after you've been to your 20th high school reunion!" I thought better of it, both because as homeschoolers they may not ever attend a high school reunion and also because they might have had the same indignant reaction my classmates and I did.<br />
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I imagine that, like <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N4EAC9S/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00N4EAC9S&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=KSU36JOJZIUMYSWT%22%3ETo%20Kill%20a%20Mockingbird,%2050th%20Anniversary%20Edition%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00N4EAC9S%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A73AIA2/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00A73AIA2&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=X32DXXSFQJCICOUH%22%3EMy%20%C3%81ntonia%20(Dover%20Thrift%20Editions)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00A73AIA2%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>My Antonia</i></a> would have not had such a profound effect on me in high school. <br />
<br />betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758167626056302678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-9752548848794461062014-10-31T07:27:00.000-07:002014-10-31T07:27:41.883-07:00Book Review: Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians by Justin Martin<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306822261/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0306822261&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=RDOZHS7ZIT5RBMU4%22%3ERebel%20Souls:%20Walt%20Whitman%20and%20America%27s%20First%20Bohemians%20(A%20Merloyd%20Lawrence%20Book)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0306822261%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians</i></a> by Justin Martin<br />
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My Review:<br />
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Pfaff's Saloon in Manhattan was for years where an eclectic but now well-known group of artists and writers gathered to share their ideas with each other. At the center of this group was young poet Walt Whitman. Those who drifted in an out of this group over the next years are others who were making names for themselves: actors Edwin Booth and his brother John Wilkes Booth, comedian Artemus Ward, drug experimenter Fitz Hugh Ludlow and a scandalous actress named Adah Menken. The group was widely traveled but kept Pfaff's Saloon as a home base, gathering nearly every evening at the same table in the bar.<br />
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I read this book shortly before teaching Whitman's poetry to my American literature* class and found Martin's book to be meticulously researched and absolutely fascinating. This book featuring this quirky cast of characters with Whitman at the center really brings the bohemian group of American romantic artists to life. As the book progresses, Martin reveals, layer by layer, the connections this group formed with other notable people of the time. In particular, Martin tells of the very short degree of separation between Whitman and the assassination of the man he admired perhaps more than anyone else: President Abraham Lincoln (and, this connection isn't through John Wilkes Booth but someone else).<br />
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Martin's book is no stuffy biography but a book that reads more like a novel and painting a picture in my head of the smoky basement bar and all the debauchery that must have ensued night after night. <br />
It's a fascinating look into a world I knew next to nothing about before reading <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306822261/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0306822261&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=RDOZHS7ZIT5RBMU4%22%3ERebel%20Souls:%20Walt%20Whitman%20and%20America%27s%20First%20Bohemians%20(A%20Merloyd%20Lawrence%20Book)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0306822261%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Rebel Souls</i></a>, and I'm glad I did.</div>
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<i>Four out of five stars</i></div>
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If you liked this book, you’ll like <i><a href="http://betsyrm.blogspot.com/2013/09/book-review-mrs-poe-by-lynn-cullen.html">Mrs. Poe</a></i> by Lynn Cullen, <a href="http://betsyrm.blogspot.com/2013/08/recent-read-mrs-lincoln-life-by.html"><i>Mrs. Lincoln: A Life</i></a> by Catherine Clinton, <a href="http://betsyrm.blogspot.com/2013/07/book-review-john-wilkes-booth-beyond.html"><i>John Wilkes Booth: Beyond the Grave</i></a> by W. C. Jameson, and any of <a href="http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/walt-whitman">Walt Whitman</a>'s poetry.</div>
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**Here's what else I included in my <a href="http://betsyrm.blogspot.com/2013/06/silver-linings-playbook-and-building-my.html">syllabus </a>for American literature. </div>
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betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758167626056302678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-86189376560998043932014-10-19T06:49:00.000-07:002014-10-19T06:49:21.170-07:00Thoreau's Walking and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold FryThis is my second year I'm teaching American literature to high school sophomores and juniors at a homeschool co-op in Atlanta. We started with Puritan poetry and moved into Transcendentalism, focused on Emerson and Thoreau. Instead of having them read "Walden," to cover Thoreau I chose another essay to read and discuss in class: "<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1463701438/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1463701438&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=4VDU3QHASCYYLCSI%22%3EWalking%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1463701438%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">Walking</a>."<br />
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On the day of our class discussion we took a walk through the community garden outside the community center where our classes are held and had a pretty good discussion about how to enjoy solitude in nature amidst the urban sprawl of Metro Atlanta. <br />
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At the same time the book I was reading for fun was <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0074D3CAQ/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0074D3CAQ&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=GK5TMAJZJAMRCZEB%22%3EThe%20Unlikely%20Pilgrimage%20of%20Harold%20Fry:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0074D3CAQ%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry</i></a> by Rachel Joyce. I didn't choose to read the two at the same time on purpose but I liked that it happened that way.<br />
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In Joyce's book, Harold Fry is a retired man living in a small town in the southwest corner of England. He and his wife are going through a bit of a tough time in their marriage and Harold is searching for new purpose for his life. Then, a postcard arrives from a former coworker from two decades before. Queenie is in her final days of a battle with cancer and writes Harold to tell him goodbye. Harold struggles to write her back an adequate letter, dashes something off and leaves the house to go mail it. Except he doesn't mail it. He decides to hand-deliver the letter 600 miles away and starts walking.<br />
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On his journey Harold meets memorable characters who want to share in the journey with him, receives the support he desires from his wife who's still waiting for him back at home and sorts out things from his past that have been bothering him.<br />
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It tied in nicely with <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1463701438/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1463701438&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=4VDU3QHASCYYLCSI%22%3EWalking%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1463701438%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">Thoreau</a>'s ideas that walking to experience nature is how you sort through the tough things in life and figure out how to live your life as an individual. betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758167626056302678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-83689149724126982442014-10-13T19:07:00.000-07:002014-10-13T19:07:24.452-07:00Book Review: Ruth's Journey: the Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind by Daniel McCaig<div class="MsoNormal">
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Page Count: 384</div>
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Genre: Historical fiction</div>
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My Reading Format: ARC ebook for Kindle provided by NetGalley</div>
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This is the life story of Ruth, better known as Mammy, in Margaret Mitchell's <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451635621/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1451635621&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=WLRIDROMKO5RTF6X%22%3EGone%20with%20the%20Wind,%2075th%20Anniversary%20Edition%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1451635621%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Gone With the Wind</i></a>. We are first introduced to Ruth when she is a small child in Saint Domingue (modern-day Haiti) during the unrest of the 1820s. Ruth is owned by Solange Escarlette Fornier, the wife of a weathly planter and army captain named Augustin. Like her granddaughter Scarlett is described, Solange is not beautiful but is green-eyed and striking. She longs for the exciting life she left behind in Normandy. Ruth comes into Solange's possession and is an agreeable and self-sufficient child. The three leave for Savannah and Augustin joins the American army. Soon they are immersed in the social life of this busy, diverse city, and Solange is determined to improve the family's social status. <br />
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I liked all the similarities between Solange and Scarlett. It was fun to get to know Scarlett's grandmother and much more about her past. I liked learning about Ruth's life outside of her time with the three generations of Scarlett's family. Getting a window in on her own personal journeys and heartaches was interesting and made her a more well-rounded character to me across both novels. I also particularly liked getting the back story on on how Scarlett's parents, Gerald and Ellen end up together. <br />
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The narrative point of view changes mid-way through the novel. It begins in the third person, giving us an objective perspective on Solange, Augustin and Ruth. However, Ruth becomes first person narrator later in the book. I enjoyed the well-written, authentic voice of Ruth as an adult and all her opinions on the bustling O'Hara household. I wish McCaig would have told the story in Ruth's voice all along. I think I would have enjoyed Ruth's childlike observations of Solange and the events of her life. The first part of the book would have seemed more personal, and readers would feel, I think, closer to her innermost thoughts and feelings by hearing them from her first-hand. The two points of view are a little jarring. Ruth's first person account is authentic while the third person feels aloof and removed from the action. However, the first time Ruth sounds like the Mammy from <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451635621/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1451635621&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=WLRIDROMKO5RTF6X%22%3EGone%20with%20the%20Wind,%2075th%20Anniversary%20Edition%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1451635621%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Gone With the Wind</i></a> is more than halfway through the novel. I wish she would have found her voice earlier. <br />
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Also, this isn't just the story of Mammy. Much of the book turns away from Mammy in favor of Solange, enough to make me wonder when we were going to get back on track. In fact, Ruth disappears from the story for a time and we know not as much as I'd like to about where she is and what she's doing. It's during this time that Solange takes center stage. When Ruth comes back, her dialect is different, perhaps because she is an older, more self-assured woman, but it was hard to make sense of. <br />
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Don't go into this with false expectations, but do enjoy it for its perspective from one of the novel's most powerful characters. Authorized or not, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451635621/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1451635621&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=WLRIDROMKO5RTF6X%22%3EGone%20with%20the%20Wind,%2075th%20Anniversary%20Edition%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1451635621%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Gone With the Wind</i></a> is a tough act to follow.
I'm not sure any writer, no matter how talented, will ever be able to
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If you liked this book, you’ll like<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UZQH7A/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000UZQH7A&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=FFDQIJW4JCLB7PDE%22%3ERhett%20Butler%27s%20People%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B000UZQH7A%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"> <i>Rhett Butler's People</i></a> by Daniel McCaig and (obviously!) <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451635621/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1451635621&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=WLRIDROMKO5RTF6X%22%3EGone%20with%20the%20Wind,%2075th%20Anniversary%20Edition%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1451635621%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Gone With the Wind</i></a> by Margaret Mitchell</div>
betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758167626056302678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-45953229912226160032014-10-06T04:19:00.000-07:002014-10-06T04:19:30.542-07:00It's Monday. What are you reading?<div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">
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Here's what I'm reading this week:<br />
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In the car on audiobook:<br />
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For review (coming soon): <br />
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Reading for work:<i><br /></i><br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0787984922/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0787984922&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=TYR4NBJA2KJFENUZ%22%3EThe%20Leadership%20Challenge,%204th%20Edition%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0787984922%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>The Leadership Challenge, 4th Edition</i></a> by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A73IXFE/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00A73IXFE&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=3JCZTFE43A6GWB27%22%3EYoung%20Goodman%20Brown%20and%20Other%20Short%20Stories%20(Dover%20Thrift%20Editions)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00A73IXFE%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">"Young Goodman Brown"</a> and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012NW9LC/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0012NW9LC&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=XHMQYKFWIAJUL6DG%22%3ERappaccini%27s%20Daughter%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0012NW9LC%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">"Rappaccini's Daughter,"</a> both short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne<br />
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And reading for fun:<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007N6JCVW/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B007N6JCVW&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=W3VOB2PBNJAKUVKH%22%3EA%20Lady%20Cyclist%27s%20Guide%20to%20Kashgar:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B007N6JCVW%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar: A Novel</i></a> by Suzanne Joinson<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1479830216/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1479830216&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=OAOHYMZTP5PPRG5I%22%3EBooks%20That%20Cook:%20The%20Making%20of%20a%20Literary%20Meal%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1479830216%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal</i></a> Edited by Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A.
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Published on: August 1, 2014</div>
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Page Count: 384</div>
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Genre: Nonfiction, food (what else?)</div>
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My Reading Format: ARC provided by the publisher via
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1479830216/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1479830216&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=OAOHYMZTP5PPRG5I%22%3EBooks%20That%20Cook:%20The%20Making%20of%20a%20Literary%20Meal%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1479830216%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Books That Cook</i></a> is
set up like a cooking anthology: a collection of writings bound by one theme,
food, and specifically, American food. The book is grouped by sections, and
each section is titled the way one would work his or her way through a meal:
invocation; starters; bread, polenta, and pasta; eggs; main dishes; side
dishes; and desserts. Then, within each section a writer has included a
personal anecdote that is focused around food and in most cases a recipe
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I like the idea of the book. I am interested in food
memories and the stories about family and friends sitting around a table
together to enjoy a particular dish. When I think of my maternal grandmother’s delicious
cakes, it makes me think of all the family dinners and birthday celebrations we
had that ended with a slice of caramel cake or pound cake (made from scratch of
course) on our plates. When I think of my paternal grandmother, I think of how
she’d put mint springs from her yard in our iced tea glasses and that there was
often gelatin or tomato aspic as part of a meal. At those big meals there were
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I liked that even though I’m not a food studies scholar, I
recognized many of the names of people who had contributed a chapter. I found,
though, that I didn’t care for all of the works, particularly by the people I
don’t know. Some stories and poems were jarring and it was difficult sometimes
to find the food that I thought I was supposed to be reading about. It didn’t
always take center stage in each chapter. There were some writers that I was
unsure had the credibility to write about food when I couldn’t quite connect
the dots between their prose and a food memory. Some chapters didn’t have a
recipe included, which would have given some structure and consistency to the
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Some of the chapters I thought were very well done and fun
to read. For instance, Chapter 21 “American Liver Mush” by Ravi Shankar was a
recipe that wasn’t for food but listed ingredients such as “3 cowboys from PRCA
rodeos,” “8 Lynyrd Skynyrd fans, packed into 1 minivan” and “1 demographic pie
chart from a meeting of Board of Trustees” with add-ins like “an election year,
hurricane season” and a clothesline. It was funny and enjoyable to read but I
was still left feeling unsure about how it really related to the rest of the
collection. In Chapter 26 “The Poet in the Kitchen and The Poem of Chicken
Breast with Fettuccine,” no recipe is included but a poem at the end of the
chapter makes it feel wrapped up and finished. </div>
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Overall, I like the concept for this book but the structure
of the book fell short for me. While I liked all the different voices and
perspectives on food, the book lacked cohesiveness. The string that tied each
chapter to the next wasn’t strong enough for me. I wanted consistency for each
chapter, something like an introduction to the author of that chapter (a short
bio establishing their credentials, however formal or informal, for writing
about their specific food topic), the writer’s personal connection to the food
about which they are writing and then the recipe that corresponds to their
story. At one point as I read this book, I made a note in my Kindle file that the
whole book is like a vegetable stew: everything is just thrown in, and I like
the taste of some of it but not all. </div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Two and a half out of
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If you liked this book, you’ll like <a href="http://betsyrm.blogspot.com/2013/06/book-review-history-of-food-in-100.html"><i>A History of Food in 100 Recipes </i></a>by William Sitwell, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00APG7Y7G/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00APG7Y7G&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=MBNNYCN5TPZ42RW3%22%3EBeing%20Dead%20Is%20No%20Excuse:%20The%20Official%20Southern%20Ladies%20Guide%20to%20Hosting%20the%20Perfect%20Funeral%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00APG7Y7G%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Being Dead is No Excuse</i></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00APG7Y7G/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00APG7Y7G&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=QFQHRC5HTGEX4PYE%22%3EBeing%20Dead%20Is%20No%20Excuse:%20The%20Official%20Southern%20Ladies%20Guide%20to%20Hosting%20the%20Perfect%20Funeral%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00APG7Y7G%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>: The Official Southern Ladies' Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral</i></a> by Gayden Metcalfe<i> </i>and<span id="btAsinTitle"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0019VWXOU/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0019VWXOU&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=7NRHOGA6EAFTMAJU%22%3ESuck%20Your%20Stomach%20In%20and%20Put%20Some%20Color%20On!:%20What%20Southern%20Mamas%20Tell%20Their%20Daughters%20that%20the%20Rest%20of%20Y%27all%20Should%20Know%20Too%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0019VWXOU%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i> Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On!: What Southern Mamas Tell Their Daughters that the Rest of Y'all Should Know Too</i></a> </span></span></span>by Shellie Rushing Tomlinson. </div>
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betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758167626056302678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-66407072773741207302014-08-12T11:43:00.000-07:002014-08-12T11:43:09.762-07:00A Little Free Library DiscoveryLast week I vacationed with my family in Wrightsville Beach, NC, which is my favorite place to read a book. It rained all week so I got a lot of reading in. Between showers one afternoon I was out for a bike ride. There's an adorable house just off the main road and for the first time I noticed a <a href="http://littlefreelibrary.org/">Little Free Library</a> had been installed in front.<br />
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If you're not familiar, Little Free Libraries are bigger than a birdhouse and smaller than a dollhouse. They open and inside people leave books for others to borrow and enjoy. I first heard of them a few years ago but hadn't yet found one to visit.<br />
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This particular Little Free Library is just off "<a href="http://www.wrightsvillebeachrealestatesales.com/2012/08/what-is-loop-in-wrightsville-beach-nc.html">the loop</a>," a two-and-a-half-mile sidewalk for running, walking and biking. Therefore, this Little Free Library boasts the clever name "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/LittleFreeLibraryOnTheLoop/timeline">Little Free Library on the Loop</a>." Inside it are a guest book and information on the Little Free Library program. <br />
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I went back the next day and donated my extra copy of <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008ZGC2XE/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008ZGC2XE&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20%22%3EThings%20They%20Carried%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B008ZGC2XE%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>The Things They Carried </i></a>by Tim O'Brien.<br />
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When I went back again the following day, my book had already been borrowed. I love this, and I want one!betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758167626056302678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-27509241954303867832014-07-28T10:36:00.000-07:002014-07-28T10:36:03.488-07:00Book Review: The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250043891/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1250043891&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=IXMKXLNXEJ3Y4KTV%22%3EThe%20Fortune%20Hunter:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1250043891%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Fortune Hunter</i> </a>by Daisy Goodwin (<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312658664/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0312658664&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=W2HP6ZCPW36D6F6Q%22%3EThe%20American%20Heiress:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0312658664%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>The American Heiress</i></a>)</div>
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Published by: St. Martin's Press</div>
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Published on: July 29, 2014</div>
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Page Count: 480</div>
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Genre: Historical fiction</div>
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My Reading Format: ARC provided by NetGalley on behalf of publisher</div>
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Available Formats: Hardback, paperback, audiobook, Audible, Kindle ebook</div>
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Empress Elizabeth "Sisi" of Austria, in need of a change of scenery and some space from her husband Emperor Franz Joseph, travels to the English countryside to engage in fox hunting with her English royal counterparts. Here she is provided with Bay Middleton, a hunting guide and accomplished horseman who is without a fortune. Bay is engaged to Charlotte Baird, a noblewoman who is bossed around by her older brother and his fiance Augusta. Charlotte looks forward to starting her life with Bay but he is sidetracked by his employ by Sisi, who is older but beautiful. The attraction between Sisi and Bay is mutual, and Bay is torn between the potential for an exciting affair with the Empress or a comfortable life with Charlotte. </div>
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I've long had a fascination with the British royal family, and since my trip to Austria last year, I've now added to that my obsession with Austrian-Hungarian royalty. This book, a marriage of the two, seemed like a perfect to-read for me. Therefore, I liked the book on the whole just for that reason. I also liked learning more about a traditional English hunting expedition. From a technical standpoint, I like Goodwin's writing style. She uses description beautifully and told the story in a way that was enjoyable to me as a reader. </div>
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I had trouble with a couple things with regard to character development. Charlotte is a well-rounded character, and I really felt for the tough spot she was in. Bay, however, made his choice very quickly right at the end of the book, which felt forced to me. Sisi was an interesting character, but I would have liked to know more about her inner struggle between her attraction to Bay and her loyalty to her husband and family. Overall I thought this was a fun read, even though I felt the plot was resolved abruptly. I'd love to do more reading about Sisi. </div>
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<i>Three out of five stars</i></div>
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betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758167626056302678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-89436909507698093442014-07-18T06:29:00.001-07:002014-07-18T06:29:10.203-07:00Two Fictional Takes on Zelda Fitzgerald <br />
I liked the window in on Zelda Fitzgerald and her tumultuous marriage to writer F. Scott Fitzgerald by fictional psychiatric nurse Anna Howard in <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/045123992X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=045123992X&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=2LUBSBCHAYKK2XIH%22%3ECall%20Me%20Zelda%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=045123992X%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Call Me Zelda: A Novel </i></a>by Erika Robuck. Anna becomes a Fitzgerald family employee, leaving her job at a Baltimore residential psychiatric clinic. She has a way with Zelda as much as anyone else does, and Zelda and Scott come to depend upon Anna for help. Soon she is spending most of her time at their home, caring for their daughter and completing other household tasks that fall outside the scope of her original agreement with the Fitzgeralds. As those interested in the Fitzgeralds' personal lives already know, their marriage, home life and finances were in a constant up-and-down motion, and good moods could shift at any moment.<br />
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What I liked about this book is that we got to know Anna both during and away from her work with the Fitzgeralds. We had a window into her world too, and it was one I was very interested in reading about. Anna has experienced tremendous loss in her personal life before the novel begins but remains very close to her extended family. Not only is she a gifted and devoted nurse, but she is a caregiver for her aging parents and close to her brother, a priest. At the risk of giving the book away, I like that Anna got her happy ending.<br />
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The book pulls away some from the Fitzgeralds in the second half of the book when Anna remains in Baltimore and Zelda Fitzgerald goes to stay at Highland Hospital, Asheville's psychiatric hospital. Though Anna thinks of Scott and Zelda often, she has not been in their employ for over a decade when a letter from Zelda causes Anna to make another journey for her former patient. This trip ends in Asheville the day before a fire destroyed the main building of the hospital, killing several patients who were not able to escape from their locked rooms. Zelda was one of these patients.<br />
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Directly after finishing <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/045123992X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=045123992X&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=2LUBSBCHAYKK2XIH%22%3ECall%20Me%20Zelda%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=045123992X%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Call Me Zelda</i></a>, I dove right into <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616203803/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1616203803&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=VJTWIMQZST47SXKN%22%3EGuests%20on%20Earth:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1616203803%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Guests on Earth </i></a>by Lee Smith. I had the pleasure of hearing Smith read from this novel a few months
ago, which really makes a story come alive for me. I liked <i>Guests on Earth</i>
for many of the same reasons I liked <i>Call Me Zelda</i>: it's an observer's
description of the Fitzgeralds, except this time mostly Zelda. I thought <i>Guests on Earth</i> was a good one. I enjoyed reading it (I've
never met a Lee Smith novel I didn't like), but it had less Zelda in it
than I envisioned before I started reading the book. <br />
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Using a similar technique, Smith writes her novel using Highland Hospital as the setting and the narrator is a fellow patient, a girl named Evalina. Evalina's life at Highland, including her encounters with Zelda, is what makes up the plot of this novel. Evalina Toussaint is a misplaced young girl in need of a caring environment in which to grow up, and ends up at Asheville's Highland Hospital where Zelda is also a patient. The two get to know each other during Zelda's early days at the hospital, but in later years the two don't have a close relationship, though each of the women is still a Highland Hospital resident.<br />
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This book really is about Evalina's life, most of which happened at Highland Hospital. Evalina befriends many fellow residents, takes a leave of absence to see the world with a man she doesn't end up marrying as planned, and winds up back at Highland as a part-time staff member. Like <i>Call Me Zelda</i>, <i>Guests on Earth</i> ends with the hospital's tragic fire but the getting there (even though I knew it was coming) seemed rushed at the end.<br />
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Both books paint Zelda as troubled but extremely talented at writing (<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/045123992X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=045123992X&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=2LUBSBCHAYKK2XIH%22%3ECall%20Me%20Zelda%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=045123992X%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Call Me Zelda</i></a>) and dancing (<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616203803/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1616203803&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=VJTWIMQZST47SXKN%22%3EGuests%20on%20Earth:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1616203803%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Guests on Earth</i></a>). I'm just fascinated by the Fitzgeralds. Betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15316849918018436860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-78852298424978456882014-07-14T09:08:00.000-07:002014-07-14T09:08:21.237-07:00Book Review: A Wedding in Provence: A Novel by Ellen Sussman<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345548957/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0345548957&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=HHYA5DM4V3IP5CRF%22%3EA%20Wedding%20in%20Provence:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0345548957%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Wedding in Provence: A Novel</i></a> by <a href="http://ellensussman.com/">Ellen Sussman</a></div>
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Published by: <a href="http://ballantine.atrandom.com/">Ballantine Books</a></div>
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Published on: July 15, 2014</div>
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Page Count: 288</div>
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Genre: Fiction</div>
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My Reading Format: ARC provided by publisher via <a href="https://www.netgalley.com/">NetGalley</a></div>
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Available Formats: Kindle ebook and hardcover</div>
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Have you ever been a part of a wedding (your own or
a family member or close friend's), and in the days leading up to the
big event, tensions and relationship drama and past issues all begin to
surface, layers peeling away like an onion? We all have. Weddings bring
out the best and worst in people. All that togetherness can really make
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That's
the case in <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345548957/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0345548957&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=HHYA5DM4V3IP5CRF%22%3EA%20Wedding%20in%20Provence:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0345548957%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>A Wedding in Provence</i></a> for the soon-to-be wed couple Brody and Olivia. They've arrived in the French countryside a few days
before their ceremony, to be held at the inn owned and operated by
Olivia's best friend Emily and her husband Sebastian. As the other
wedding guests arrive, we learn about their relationships with one
another and their past and present lives. There's Brody's womanizing
best friend Jake, Olivia's two adult daughters Nell and Carly, Brody's
mother Fanny and Nell's date Gavin who all bring their (literal and figurative) baggage with
them for the weekend. Also present are the shadows
of others who aren't attending the wedding: Nell's recently deceased boyfriend Chaney, Nell and
Carly's father, Carly's workaholic boyfriend Wes, Brody's father and widower Brody's
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The relationships are complicated and still in progress in many cases. Olivia wants to relax as the bride-to-be but is mothering her two troubled daughters, both of whom are working through issues from their lives back home and undergoing a period of self-discovery. Their father is still a part of their lives (as much as he can be), and Nell and Carly are unsure about letting their mother's new husband into their lives. Nell still struggles with her boyfriend's suicide months before, and is still making the rash decisions she has made her whole life, such as bringing her seat mate from her flight with her to the wedding. Gavin seems like fun at first but is sketchy, not surprisingly bailing on Nell as soon as he gets the chance. Carly, the put-together, predictable sister, is rethinking her boring life with a boring boyfriend and let loose a little. Brody is navigating his parents' failed marriage, and father's sickness and absence from the wedding. Even innkeepers Emily and Sebastian have hit a rough patch in their marriage. </div>
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Overall, this book is a fun read. I would have loved to see this French town on the Mediterranean, and its fabulous wine and food take more of a central role in the book. At times I found the characters and their sex lives to be tiring. But, the characters are complex and were enjoyable. At the end of the book Olivia is the beautiful bride and Brody the happy groom, and they are married surrounded by their favorite friends and relatives. The book ends but not neatly, which is, I think, just like real life, which has many of the same themes this book has: second chances, making up for lost time, healing, forgiveness and love.</div>
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<i>Three and a half stars out of five</i></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476734240/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1476734240&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=INPM2R5YM75TDPFC%22%3EThe%20Awakening%20of%20Miss%20Prim:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1476734240%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Awakening of Miss Prim</i></a> by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera</div>
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Published on: July 8, 2014</div>
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Page Count: 272 pages</div>
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Genre: Fiction</div>
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My Reading Format: ARC provided by publisher via NetGalley</div>
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Can you think of a fictional character who is so uptight you read about them wishing they would just lighten up, making their own life and the lives of the character around them easier? A few such characters come to mind for me like that: Aunt Cordelia in <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0425202054/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0425202054&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=SJLANHMIJXBMETT7%22%3EUp%20a%20Road%20Slowly%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0425202054%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Up a Road Slowly</i></a>, Captain Von Trapp in <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003VS0CX8/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003VS0CX8&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=TBR55VPFOVCLPA7G%22%3EThe%20Sound%20of%20Music%20(Three-Disc%2045th%20Anniversary%20Blu-ray/DVD%20Combo%20in%20Blu-ray%20Packaging)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B003VS0CX8%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>The Sound of Music</i></a> and Mrs. Gulch in <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CNW9ZI6/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00CNW9ZI6&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=ADOWKWS34L2M34CA%22%3EThe%20Wizard%20of%20Oz:%2075th%20Anniversary%20Edition%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00CNW9ZI6%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>The Wizard of Oz</i></a>. But I can't think of any uptight character I liked so much right away as I do Miss Prudencia Prim. The epitome of a Type A personality, the heroine in <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476734240/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1476734240&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=ZMQAG7ZL7MC7MNVQ%22%3EThe%20Awakening%20of%20Miss%20Prim:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1476734240%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>The Awakening of Miss Prim</i></a> is punctual, dependable, disapproving, rigid and not much fun. She's seeking new scenery and a change in her life. Though overqualified for the position, she applies for a job with and is hired by a man to organize his in-home library, and moves to San Ireneo de Arnois, a small village in France, for several months to complete the job. This self-proclaimed "mistress of the art of delicacy" is ready to jump in with both feet and get her boss, the Man in the Wingchair, all squared away. <br />
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Prudencia believed herself to be capable and completely in control of the life she'd chosen for herself (one that includes no wiggle room). However, as Prudencia spends more time in San Ireneo de Arnois, she begins making friends with the children in the household and the townspeople. Many of those friends are women who have ideas about what constitutes a full and complete life for a woman, which at first differ from Prudencia's ideas on the subject. First off, every woman should be married (Prudencia disagrees of course, as she's got her life just how she wants it). Also, every woman should be given time to discover herself (Prudencia believes she already has), and villager Eugenia believes this should happen in Italy. <br />
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Things don't go as Prudencia plans. The exasperation she feels toward the Man in the Wingchair not surprisingly softens. She discovers her female friends know some secrets to life that she's previously missed. She is accepted by and learns from the experiences of her boss' mother, with whom she forms a close friendship.<br />
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I would have liked to know more about
Prudencia's background and would have loved to see more development in
her relationship with the children in the household. When she travels to
Italy, we know she's become more self-aware by the end of the trip, but it's a transition we
sense more than see the details of. Those things are small though in relation to how much I enjoyed the story. <br />
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Yes, I felt pretty sure I knew what was coming but that didn't take anything away from my enjoyment. It echoes of <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1494464586/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1494464586&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=UH3VERQEFSLS2TIC%22%3EJane%20Eyre%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1494464586%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Jane Eyre</i></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/149440477X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=149440477X&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=22IVT7H7GBR5H23Z%22%3EPride%20and%20Prejudice%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=149440477X%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Pride and Prejudice</i></a> and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553212753/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0553212753&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=2YR3NQPQQL45VLLD%22%3ELittle%20Women%20(Bantam%20Classics)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0553212753%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Little Women</i></a>, three of my favorite books. In short, I had <i>fun </i>reading this book, and I think you will too.<br />
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<span id="freeTextContainerreview92441256">I recently listened to <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307387097/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0307387097&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=SIJX5WZV7UMIAEO6%22%3EHalf%20the%20Sky:%20Turning%20Oppression%20into%20Opportunity%20for%20Women%20Worldwide%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307387097%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide</i></a> by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. It was tough, a
very difficult book to listen to. Even though I knew I should stick
with it, I almost had to stop it was so upsetting. Somehow, hearing about the dangerous, exploited lives of women around the world was harder to hear for me than if I'd read a physical copy of the book. On into the book there are some success stories that are
really powerful, and that's what helped me get through it. I had reached more than my fill of frustratingly sad stories of women so limited by their circumstances and so abused and manipulated by men (both strangers and family members), stories that had no easy solutions. </span></span><span class="readable reviewText"><span id="freeTextContainerreview92441256">I
even had to stop listening about one-third of the way in. I asked a
friend I knew had read the book previously if she, knowing me well,
thought I should continue the book. She encouraged me to, and I'm glad I
finished
it. It was perhaps THE most difficult book I've ever read.</span></span><br />
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<span class="readable reviewText"><span id="freeTextContainerreview92441256">I followed that up shortly thereafter with Jimmy Carter's latest book, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476773955/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1476773955&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=WTUIZVF2YEYSE4XG%22%3EA%20Call%20to%20Action:%20Women,%20Religion,%20Violence,%20and%20Power%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1476773955%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power</i></a>. In part, the same idea from <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307387097/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0307387097&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=SIJX5WZV7UMIAEO6%22%3EHalf%20the%20Sky:%20Turning%20Oppression%20into%20Opportunity%20for%20Women%20Worldwide%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307387097%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Half the Sky</i></a> is here, but with a little bit different spin. For one, Carter covers the injustices to women done both in the United States and other parts of the world, which made the book feel more personal to me. And, Carter gave more solutions and success stories, which kept me from getting that completely hopeless feeling I got from <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307387097/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0307387097&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=SIJX5WZV7UMIAEO6%22%3EHalf%20the%20Sky:%20Turning%20Oppression%20into%20Opportunity%20for%20Women%20Worldwide%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307387097%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Half the Sky</i></a>. </span></span><br />
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<span class="readable reviewText"><span id="freeTextContainerreview92441256">Have you read either of these books? What did you think? </span></span><br />
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<span class="readable reviewText"><span id="freeTextContainerreview92441256">**A few years back I traveled to <a href="http://betsyrm.blogspot.com/2012/02/jimmy-carter-teaches-sunday-school.html">Plains, Georgia</a>, to attend <a href="http://www.mbcplains.org/">Jimmy Carter's Sunday school class</a>, a great experience.</span></span><br />
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The book takes place in two different times and places that come together later in the book. Sookie is a 60-year-old woman living in Alabama who discovers that she was adopted, a fact that her nonagenarian mother (still living) never revealed to her. Fritzi is a young woman in Pulaski, Wisconsin, working with her family at a filling station when the United States enters World War II. As Sookie begins researching her past, she puts previously unknown pieces of her history together, which fits in with the <span class="st">Jurdabralinski </span>sisters.<br />
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I had in my head early in the book that with "Reunion" in the title, Sookie would discover not that she had been adopted, but that her mother had worked at at all-girl filling station during World War II when some women were placed in men's roles while they were overseas. I had in mind that Sookie's mother Lenore would be invited to a reunion of all the women who worked at this filling station. Sookie, whose relationship with her mother wasn't an easy one, would have traveled with her mother to this reunion. All this extra time together would have helped them talk through some things from their past, and come away from the trip with a greater understanding of each other and a stronger mother-daughter relationship. I had also imagined that Sookie would have really enjoyed meeting all the women who knew her mother decades before and hearing those women tell stories about her mother that she'd never heard.<br />
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As the book went on and my first ideas didn't line up with the plot, I formulated a new plan: as Sookie learned of her birth family and their business, she would become interested in meeting her mother and aunts who had run the filling station during the war. "Reunion" would mean that Sookie would travel to Wisconsin to meet them all, and this would be her first meeting of her birth family.<br />
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Neither one of these theories panned out, and I won't go into detail in case it spoils the book for the rest of you. I will say, though, that while I enjoyed a fun story with some historical base, the book needs a better, truer title. The title just doesn't measure up with what the book is really about.betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758167626056302678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-36114762768514405342014-06-30T07:24:00.000-07:002014-10-06T04:05:06.548-07:00It's Monday! What are you reading? (Holiday week edition)<div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">
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It's a short week around here, which gives me a little more time for reading. I'm feeling ambitious. Here's what I'm reading this week:<br />
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In the car on audiobook: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036S4DQA/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0036S4DQA&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=OHXPLPQWMVWSRF6U%22%3EThe%20Last%20Hero:%20A%20Life%20of%20Henry%20Aaron%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0036S4DQA%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron</i></a> by Howard Bryant.<br />
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On my iPod: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451229215/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0451229215&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=OEKINGAUEUHNIT6N%22%3EOn%20Folly%20Beach%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0451229215%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>On Folly Beach</i></a> by Karen White.<br />
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For review (coming soon): <br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476734240/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1476734240&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=5ULZNKA44GR3TT73%22%3EThe%20Awakening%20of%20Miss%20Prim:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1476734240%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>The Awakening of Miss Prim: A Novel</i></a> by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera (in time for its publication date July 8)<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345548957/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0345548957&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=KHOMS7M3JYODVPP5%22%3EA%20Wedding%20in%20Provence:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0345548957%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Wedding in Provence: A Novel</i></a> by Ellen Sussman (publication date July 15) <br />
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And pulled from my stack that I've been looking forward to reading:<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1897187068/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1897187068&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=VXLSHODYKDAANRCB%22%3EHiding%20Edith%20(Holocaust%20Remembrance%20Series)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1897187068%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Hiding Edith</i></a> by Kathy Kacer<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/045123992X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=045123992X&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=524BORICMQE4OFPV%22%3ECall%20Me%20Zelda%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=045123992X%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Call me Zelda</i></a> by Erika Robuck<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616203803/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1616203803&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20&linkId=NR4K2QR7JY3A223S%22%3EGuests%20on%20Earth:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1616203803%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Guests on Earth</i></a> by Lee Smith<br />
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Sheila from <a href="http://bookjourney.wordpress.com/">Book Journey</a>. </i>betsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17758167626056302678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8709004876734812953.post-31757805390495460482014-06-09T07:41:00.000-07:002014-06-09T07:41:14.979-07:00Book Review: The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446578932/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0446578932&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20%22%3EThe%20Ice%20Cream%20Queen%20of%20Orchard%20Street:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0446578932%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street</i>: <i>A Novel</i></a> by Susan Jane Gilman</div>
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Published on: June 10, 2014</div>
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Page Count: 512</div>
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Genre: Fiction</div>
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My Reading Format: Advanced reading e-book provided by NetGalley</div>
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Available Formats: Hardcover and Kindle e-book</div>
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Don't be fooled by the cover of <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446578932/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0446578932&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20%22%3EThe%20Ice%20Cream%20Queen%20of%20Orchard%20Street:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0446578932%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street</i></a>. It's brightly colored and shows a woman's feet in a fabulous pair of heels next to an upside down, melted ice cream cone. The cover reminds me of a Mary Kay Andrews book cover (not knocking Mary Kay Andrews - personally, I'm looking forward to her latest, Save the Date).<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446578932/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0446578932&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20%22%3EThe%20Ice%20Cream%20Queen%20of%20Orchard%20Street:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0446578932%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i> Ice Cream Queen</i></a> is not a girly, cutesy, pretty story. It's a story about a little girl who grows into a woman in a life filled with abandonment and setback. This main character, first named Malka and later Lillian, just gets tougher. As life gets harder, so does she. <br />
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Malka is a young Jewish Russian immigrant with her family in Germany with plans to immigrate to South Africa to be near family. Instead, Malka's father, who seemed suspicious to me from the start, exchanges their tickets for passage on a ship to New York City instead without telling Malka's mother. Malka's father forces her to keep it a secret from her mother and her other three sisters. This is just the beginning for Malka of a life of getting let down by those around her who are supposed to love and care for her.<br />
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The story, which opens early in the 20th century, shows the dismal life of poor immigrants living in crowded tenement houses in the city, and those who rise above those conditions to move themselves out of them, and those who don't. Very early on, Malka is told by her mother that to be able to eat she must bring home money. Malka and her sister put together a singing and dancing act, earning them a few pennies per day, and which helps them stay in their mother's good graces. Malka has to draw upon that experience of putting herself out there to survive day after day for the rest of her life, even after she has made it as a successful businesswoman. In Chapter 2, Malka learns to "Be shameless. Be
different. And appeal to the emotions -- never the head."<br />
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After an accident Malka is abandoned by her family and taken in by an Italian Catholic family, the Dinellos. Malka's name is changed to Lillian. The Dinellos are trying to make it in the ice cream business, and Lillian learns all she can from them before she marries and is ousted from the Dinello family. Abandoned but determined to take what she learned and create a successful business herself, Lillian and new husband Bert Dunkle slowly but surely build an ice cream empire together that lasts through the book's ending in the last quarter of the 20th century. <br />
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Besides just being a good story, Gilman's writing style is fun to read. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446578932/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0446578932&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20%22%3EThe%20Ice%20Cream%20Queen%20of%20Orchard%20Street:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0446578932%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>Ice Cream Queen</i></a> is filled with fantastic description: "Fumes of queasy-sweet gasoline billowed from new cars rattling noisily up the avenues. And since none of the tenements had bathtubs, these odors, in turn, mixed with the gamy smell of thousands of strains of human perspiration. Yeasty, fungal skin. Rose water. Decaying teeth. Dirty diapers. Sharp, vinegary hair tonic" (Chapter 2). <br />
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As I read, I anticipated the moment that this girl with gumption would become the business-savvy woman. But there wasn't one moment, just a progression. That ability to be this kind of a go-getter was part of Malka's personality all along. <br />
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I think what I liked most about this book though is the way that Gilman doesn't just give us a rags-to-riches feel-good story. Lillian is flawed. She does the best she can but she makes plenty of mistakes. Lillian knows how to learn from those mistakes and she's thick-skinned enough to keep moving forward and ignore what people around her are saying about her. Her career ebbs and flows, as do her marriage and her relationship with her son, who come second to that career. She faces addiction. Gilman has painted her as human rather than perfect. We all have our faults. Life isn't as sweet as the cover of <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446578932/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0446578932&linkCode=as2&tag=thoughtsfro06-20%22%3EThe%20Ice%20Cream%20Queen%20of%20Orchard%20Street:%20A%20Novel%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thoughtsfro06-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0446578932%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E"><i>The Ice Cream Queen</i></a> indicates. <br />
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<i>Four out of five stars</i></div>
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