Reading for pleasure! What are you reading now?

[President Camacho]

Great Penelope! I think Amazon.com has some copies. Ophelia has already created a thread.

[Penelope]

Oooh I love Edith Piaff too - I wish I could sing like that.....I do try when everyone is out......rrrrrolling my RRRRs - it worries the cat terribly......

Ralph, it costs around about

[Audrey]

Citizen Girl by Emma McLaughlin
Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller

[Saffron]

Ooooh I LIKE the sound of that one......A Midwife's Tale.

Thank you for recommending it. I will get a copy and read it whether it is the forum choice or not.

Nice One Saffron!!!

I have just started 'The Bad Mother's Handbook' by Kate Long - fun, fun, fun....

Hey Penelope,
I just found out that PBS made a movie of a Midwife's Tale! I just ordered it from Netflix.

American Experience: A Midwife's Tale(1997) NR

While researching the scant record of American Revolution-era women, historian Laurel Ulrich came upon the overlooked diary of Martha Ballard, a midwife who never lost a mother's life in more than 1,000 deliveries. Using the dense diary as source material, Ulrich wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning portrait of Ballard. This documentary supplements re-created scenes of Ballard's life with voice-over from the diary and interviews with Ulrich.

[Saffron]

A side note to the post I just made about A Midwife's Tale. The actress that plays Martha Ballard in the movie will be in a one woman show, based on the life of Rachel Carson, just miles from where I live.

[Ophelia]

Citizen Girl by Emma McLaughlin
Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller

Hello Audrey, nice to have you back.

It's always a lovely feeling when exams are over.
Which subjects are you taking, besides French?

I gave a reference to my favourite books in French a while ago-- and then promptly forgot about it.


At the moment I'm reading Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks.

I had already read a few books about the plague in England but a friend recommended this to me and I'm enjoying it-- it takes place in an English village, the setting in 1666 is very nicely done.

[Saffron]

Citizen Girl by Emma McLaughlin
Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller

At the moment I'm reading Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks.

I had already read a few books about the plague in England but a friend recommended this to me and I'm enjoying it-- it takes place in an English village, the setting in 1666 is very nicely done.

I really enjoyed this book until the end. I'd love to know what you think of the way Geraldine wraps this book up.

Saffron

[Ophelia]

"I really enjoyed this book until the end. I'd love to know what you think of the way Geraldine wraps this book up."

Saffron

OK I'll open a thread for this book and I can also mention the two other books I've read about the plague in England.

[ralphinlaos]

Not much reading this week, but I just started reading A Stained White Radiance by James Lee Burke. I'm twenty pages into the book, and I THINK I'VE READ IT BEFORE! Not the first time this has happened - probably not the last.

Ralph

[Penelope]

tis sooooooo good to have you back.

It is 'summer' here.....weather hot and sticky....we are having a barbecue - Aberdeen Angus Steak and Salad.......because we have to catch the warm weather before it goes away again.

We mark whether it has been a good summer by the number of barbecues we get in.