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"Call the Midwife" is an excellent book, IMO. True story, too. I don't expect to like all the characters in a book but I can honestly say that this book has some of the most wonderful folks to be found in nonfiction.
Funny, I saw all three of the Call the Midwife trilogy books on my library's Kindle website a while back and I didn't even bother looking to see what they were about, nor did I look on Amazon.
You made me look, D! You made me look!
(And I've just reserved all three of them.)
(When I'll have the time to actually READ them, I have no idea. But I reserved them. Which just reminded me of the Seinfeld line, "You know how to TAKE the reservation; you just don't know how to KEEP the reservation.)
LOL - I've been watching this on PBS and didn't even know there was a book!
Boy, do I feel dumb.
I tried reading the first one but at the same time I was watching on Netflix (still need to get caught up to this season). I would recommend not reading the books while watching the show. The book is really good but just weird experience reading it and watching it and certain things being changed for TV.
I'm reading Hollow City by Ransom Riggs. About 75% of the way through. I find it to be a very interesting story. It is the sequel to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. While I don't think the books are really great or anything like that, they are interesting and different than other stuff I've read. I also love how he uses old photos he has found and makes them part of his story.
I have 3 other library eBooks waiting for me on my tablet too. I would so much rather be reading than working right now. What's new?
I've never read anything by her before. I just started this one and I definitely like her writing style. So much so that I have a few other of her books on my Kindle library already, one of them a memoir.
Funny, I saw all three of the Call the Midwife trilogy books on my library's Kindle website a while back and I didn't even bother looking to see what they were about, nor did I look on Amazon.
You made me look, D! You made me look!
(And I've just reserved all three of them.)
(When I'll have the time to actually READ them, I have no idea. But I reserved them. Which just reminded me of the Seinfeld line, "You know how to TAKE the reservation; you just don't know how to KEEP the reservation.)
(And now I'm done.) (Parenthetically, at least.)
I hope you enjoy them as much as I did, Dawn. There is no "danger" for you in the books. You know what I mean. I know that sounds silly but there really isn't and yet the tales are so heartwarming and sometimes filled with pathos that I couldn't help but love them. To know that these women actually existed in real life and to learn their back stories is part of the frosting on the cake. I really, really like these people and sometimes in today's world it is hard to find people in literature, whether fiction or non, who are truly likable in their very humanity. You'll meet some of them in "Call the Midwife."
Location: Montreal -> CT -> MA -> Montreal -> Ottawa
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Originally Posted by Ketabcha
I hope you enjoy them as much as I did, Dawn. There is no "danger" for you in the books. You know what I mean. I know that sounds silly but there really isn't and yet the tales are so heartwarming and sometimes filled with pathos that I couldn't help but love them. To know that these women actually existed in real life and to learn their back stories is part of the frosting on the cake. I really, really like these people and sometimes in today's world it is hard to find people in literature, whether fiction or non, who are truly likable in their very humanity. You'll meet some of them in "Call the Midwife."
I'm reading "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth, the final book in the Divergent trilogy. After I finish I think I will read "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green.
Read “A Better Way of Dying: How to Make the Best Choices at The End of Life”
by Jeanne Fitzpatrick, M.D. and Eileen M. Fitzpatrick, J.D. (2010).
The title is pretty self-explanatory...
an excerpt: “Your openness about your decision and your plans will make a vital contribution to ending the
“my patients don’t die” attitude that unnecessarily extends suffering at the end of life.”
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