![]() Ben goes there, in person, to fuel the stories. His job is to write articles about his teammates as they are picked off at various battle theaters around the Pacific and Europe. After suffering some injuries in pilot training he is recruited by a stealthy military propaganda machine. Ben, part of a Montana college football team in the 1940s, joins the service during WWII. I marvel at Moyes’ ability to write a riveting story from the premise of a mistaken gym bag. Nisha meets some really kind people, people who barely subsist but willingly help her out. Nisha becomes a different person when she dons those shoes. In the gym bag she did pick up are a pair of Christian Louboutin red crocodile shoes, and take big significance in the story, obviously. She has nothing but this gym bag belonging to someone else (who?). Then she finds out her husband is leaving her and he’s locked her out of their high-rise apartment. At the gym someone else grabs her gym bag, so she grabs the similar one. Nisha, our heroine, is a wealthy socialite. This being another one that grabbed my attention from the first page. Moyes is such a prolific author, and comes up with the most unexpected stories. Sweet story but with lots of twists and turns. It’s the story of how she survives and becomes an agent for good in England and finally finds someone to love. She just can’t abide the man, and runs away. It starts with a young aristocratic woman on the eve of an arranged marriage. Ferguson utilizes some of her family ancestors as real characters in the book. I was pleasantly surprised as I read this book that it wasn’t the usual romantic romp – there’s more to this story than you might think. Her Heart for a Compass, by Sarah Ferguson (yes), the Duchess of York. This book is historical fiction, and some creative liberties were probably taken, but the tale itself is quite something. This is a true story of Aleen Isabel Cust, who did just that and was finally able to practice veterinary medicine in a rural area. It took years of trying (to the horror of her aristocratic family) and finally someone took her under their wing, she enrolled using a pseudonym (a name not revealing her gender). In 1868 Ireland, a woman wasn’t allowed to attend veterinary school, much less become a veterinarian. Here in California we have such a huge problem with illegal immigrants and I certainly don’t have the answers, but this story makes you stop and think. About how he aspired to merely attend high school, how he made ends meet (barely) and how he eventually made it to medical school and became the expert he is. This is his memoir about how he went from being a penniless migrant from Mexico to one of the world’s most renowned experts in brain tumors. Q, by Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, MD, is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology at Johns Hopkins University. I almost never read books about politics because I think many (most?) of our elected politicians succumb to the lure of power and forget who they work for, us, the public.īecoming Dr. She testified to Congress about what she knew. Enough, gives you plenty of detail leading up to and after the January 6th uprising. when she couldn’t live with herself and subvert the truth. She worked under Mark Meadows and suffered a lot of ridicule when she quit. The book is a memoir of her short spin working at the highest levels, and obviously at the White House. ![]() That’s why I bought it.Ĭassidy Hutchinson is a young woman (a real one) who works in politics or “government.” She’s worked for some prestigious Washington politicians, and ended up working for Trump. I could hardly put this book down it was so riveting. About the stock market crash back in 1929, but it’s about a man. ![]() It’s a book, within a book, within a book. Both of my book clubs have it as a read this year. More than anything the book is about relationships, not only Marcellus with a woman (of a certain age) who cleans the aquarium at night, but the various people in this small town. Marcellus himself writes some of the chapters. In particular this one, Marcellus, who lives in an aquarium in a fictitious town in western Washington State. It’s a novel however, much of the story is about the intelligence of octopus. Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt. They both lead very busy lives, so we’ll see. Now in 2023, I’m still doing 99% of the blogging and holding out hope that these two lovely and excellent cooks will participate. I started the blog in 2007, as a way to share recipes with my family. Daughter Sara on the right, and daughter-in-law Karen on the left.
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