Thursday, July 19, 2018

reading list # 3 2018

  1. The Garment Maker’s Daughter by Hillary Adrienne Stern about immigrants, garment manufacturing, labor unions and loves lost and found.  
  2. 1968 by Mark Kurlansky events happening in1968 and what lead up to them and how they changed the world, youth, civil rights, women’s rights, revolution, demonstrations etc.  I was 12 in 1968 so was just a little oblivious to what was happening.
  3. A Book to Die For by Richard Houston murder mystery 
  4. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce again for book club I like it more and more  
  5. Marriage of Inconvenience by Debbie Macomber 
  6. A Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus a work of fiction in the form of journals based on some historical events.    
  7. Winterkill by CJ Box more adventures in Wyoming 
  8. Trophy Hunt by CJ Box only 4 characters with green eyes but only one mentioned
  9. The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff WW II and the circus. 
  10. Dull Knife short story by CJ Box 4 
  11. Delicious by Ruth Reichl fiction about a food magazine and a stash of letters from the 1940’s. 
  12. The Lilac Girls by  Martha Hall Kelly very tough to read WW II women’s concentration camp for book club
  13. The Angry Tide by Winston Graham mor about Ross Poldark sigh
  14. The Radium Girls by Kate Moore another tough book about the girls who painted  the illuminated dials of clocks and aviation dials between 1910 and 1935.
  15. Out of Range by CJ Box more murder and mayhem in the Wyoming wilderness 
  16. Hanna's Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson life and attitudes of three generations of women in Sweden
Enjoying time on the deck mostly in the shade with a tall glass of ice water.  --Ann--

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