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Post by woolworker on Mar 24, 2019 16:50:04 GMT
Connie: My DH loves John Sanford. I will relay your reports about his new book.
A dear friend of mine in Maine opened a bookstore a year ago after retiring from college teaching. It is a fabulous bookstore. She writes a weekly column for a local newspaper with book reviews. This past week. The column focussed on Maine women writers since March is women's history month. I've read most of the books she reviewed so thought I would share the authors and titles with you.
My Love Affiair with the State of Maine by Scotty Mckensie and Ruth Good. This is a memoir about the area where we are moving to permanently. The two authors gave up New York City jobs to run a general store at a beach in Southern Maine. They held dances at the store at night. It is a great, light read.Elizabeth Ogilvie, The Tidal Trilogy: High Tide at Noon, Sotrm Tide and Teh Ebbing Tide. These were written in the mid forties and are about a lobstering family on Bennetts Island. The main character and narrator is the only girl in the family. I have read almost all of Elizabeth Ogilvie's books. Her characters are really interesting and have a lot of depth. Wonderful stories.
Islands of Time by Barbara Kent Lawrence was published in 2017. My friend describes it as part love story and part Marine Biology. I have this book, but haven't read it yet.
There are more, but those are the ones I know best. If anyone is interested in more, I relate them from my friend's column.
Ann
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Post by woolworker on Mar 26, 2019 13:24:42 GMT
Moving this up to the top so people notice it. I have started the second Olive Farm book.
Ann
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Post by Gail in SC on Mar 29, 2019 2:41:16 GMT
We had a great discussion of WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING. Only one person in the book club did not like it.
One of our librarians recommended a book that kept me up last night: WE HOPE FOR BETTER THINGS by Erin Bartels. It covers women from the same family from three different periods. Each of them is white and has a relationship with a black man. Lot son themes, interesting enough to have kept me up til 3 this morning.
Gail
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Post by yogamama007 on Mar 29, 2019 23:38:57 GMT
Annsanse- I agree about the KILLER MOON.....I just did not want to finish it....too much of a downer.
It must be a tug at your heart to have the last 3 sheep sheared, on to a new adventure but memories of time passed still hang on.
WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING- Guess the book wouldn't have been too long if the mother had taken her dented fry pan and whacked the father upside the head then hid the body in the swamp.
Did I like the book? Yes. Parts of it reminded me of other books I have read. The sea, birds,and marsh were like additional characters. Lovely..we had spent summers in N.C. letting the kids go free range with their friends.
Just started to read:
THE INVISIBLE WALL:
“There are places that I have never forgotten. A little cobbled street in a smoky mill town in the North of England has haunted me for the greater part of my life. It was inevitable that I should write about it and the people who lived on both sides of its ‘Invisible Wall.’ ”
The narrow street where Harry Bernstein grew up, in a small English mill town, was seemingly unremarkable. It was identical to countless other streets in countless other working-class neighborhoods of the early 1900s, except for the “invisible wall” that ran down its center, dividing Jewish families on one side from Christian families on the other. Only a few feet of cobblestones separated Jews from Gentiles, but socially, it they were miles apart.
On the eve of World War I, Harry’s family struggles to make ends meet. His father earns little money at the Jewish tailoring shop and brings home even less, preferring to spend his wages drinking and gambling. Harry’s mother, devoted to her children and fiercely resilient, survives on her dreams: new shoes that might secure Harry’s admission to a fancy school; that her daughter might marry the local rabbi; that the entire family might one day be whisked off to the paradise of America.
Then Harry’s older sister, Lily, does the unthinkable: She falls in love with Arthur, a Christian boy from across the street.
When Harry unwittingly discovers their secret affair, he must choose between the morals he’s been taught all his life, his loyalty to his selfless mother, and what he knows to be true in his own heart.
A wonderfully charming memoir written when the author was ninety-three, The Invisible Wall vibrantly brings to life an all-but-forgotten time and place. It is a moving tale of working-class life, and of the boundaries that can be overcome by love."
This the first of a Trilogy written by Harry Bernstein. Mr. Bernstein started chronicling his life at the age of ninety-four, after the death of his beloved wife, Ruby.
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Post by Gail in SC on Mar 30, 2019 13:59:02 GMT
Putting INVISIBLE WALL on my list...thanks, Anne!
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Post by conniej on Mar 30, 2019 18:04:22 GMT
Oh my at 94 years of age!!! That is amazing. I am putting it on my list as well.
My head is still full and headache today but that seems to be the extent of this darn bug I have had.
hoping it is on the way away!!!!
I am using good old fashioned Vicks!
Sorry I did not start the reading thread this week but get the new one up on Tuesday for sure.
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Post by woolworker on Mar 30, 2019 21:27:57 GMT
Invisibile Wall goes on my list, too! This is such a great thread.
I was feeling frustrated and blue today over the move and my DH is getting increasingly intense with his work projects to try to make the house PERFECT. I had to get out of the house so I got in my car and drove to the library in the next town where I wouldn't run into anyone I know...crazy, huh? I had a great morning and early afternoon. I grabbed a book of Rosamund Pilcher short stories....I LOVE her! I read four great stories and wandered around getting to know the library a bit. I even took myself out to lunch. I walked with a friend this afternoon and told NO ONE about my new hiding place! Aren't libraries just the best? Now if they would set up viewing rooms so one could watch a DVD I'd really be set. I had started watching The Dressmaker, an Amazon Prime original, and was enjoying it, but DH started using noisy equipment so I couldn't finish it. I just could not bring myself to pack or to clean or organize a thing today.....and dinner is a stew out of the freezer!
Ann
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