This might be one of my absolute favorites from the series. It’s a very long book, and like all of the others it’s probably longer than it needs to be, but I love it anyway. There’s a lot of people just barely missing each other and little misunderstandings that blow up into crazy situations. You know, that sort of nonsense that rarely happens in real life but seems to work in historical romance novels. So this book picks up in the Americas, where Jamie and […]
TFWOTSC & The Notorious RBG
This was a very long, meticulously researched account of how Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg reached the Supreme Court, and what they did during their tenures. It discusses specific court cases and laws, and gets a little dry at times, but overall I found it interesting and informative. Hirshman starts by comparing and contrasting the early lives of these two incredible women, “Republican and Democrat, Christian and Jew, western rancher’s daughter and Brooklyn girl”, etc. Then she splits into separate histories, showing how they […]
A funny lady tells a sad story
One More Time is Carol Burnett’s story of her childhood and young adulthood, as told to her children. Because it’s Carol Burnett, it’s told in a humorous manner with an upbeat, optimistic tone. But it’s really a very sad story. Burnett spent most of her childhood with her grandmother, Nanny, who spent most of her time talking about her death. Burnett’s mother abandoned her at an early age to pursue stardom in Hollywood; her father was an alcoholic who appeared at random times. After a few […]
“People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.”
Oh, I loved this book. I think I may be the last person on the planet to read it, but I’m so glad I finally did! “We always think there’s enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like ‘if’.” This man called Ove works with his hands. He doesn’t like books or foreign cars or cats. He’s experienced a lot of tragedy in his life, but […]