(I read this book as part of the Reading Out of the Box Challenge. This book was in the Opposites Attract category, in which I read a book that’s opposite to what I normally grab.) As 70-something writer Harry Chapman lies in his hospital bed, the voices of the present—doctors, nurses, other patients—are not the…
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Review: What Alice Forgot
Alice Love is 29, madly in love with her husband Nick, and pregnant with their first child. They live in an eccentric old house they’re slowly renovating, and Alice looks forward to many years of happiness with her family. So when she finds herself coming out of unconsciousness on a gym floor and off to…
Review: The Handmaid’s Tale
“Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray…
Review: Long Lankin
When Cora and her little sister Mimi are sent to visit their Aunt Ida in the isolated village of Bryers Guerdon, their welcome is less than enthusiastic. Their aunt tells them not to get comfortable, that she’s writing to their father to come pick them up, that “they can’t stay here, they mustn’t stay here.”…
Review: Hospital Sketches
In 1863 author Lousia May Alcott (of Little Women fame) spent six weeks as a volunteer nurse for the Union Army near Washington, D.C. A bout of typhoid fever forced her to return home earlier than she wanted, but some years later she returned to the letters she had written home during that time and…