Posted in History, Non-Fiction, Women, tagged Elizabeth Bentley on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I found Lauren Kessler’s Clever Girl when I was trolling the stacks at the library. It sounded interesting. And I do like spy stories.
Elizabeth Bentley was the Red Spy Queen as the newspapers called her. She came from an old Connecticut family, was well educated (Vassar), travelled to Europe (apparently she had quite the [...]
Posted in Canadian, History, Non-Fiction, tagged 9/11 books, Newfoundland, The Day the World Came to Town on July 10, 2008 | No Comments »
I don’t normally read books about September 11th. In fact I usually try avoid them at all costs. But Jim DeFede’s The Day the World Came to Town pull at me. I had known that a heck of a lot of planes got grounded in Canada that day. And I knew that a lot [...]
Posted in History, Non-Fiction, Women, tagged food-lit, Laura Shapiro, Something from the Oven on July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I finally finished Laura Shapiro’s Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America. It feels like it took me forever. I was reading it at night before bed but then I went on vacation and didn’t take it with me and I’ve been tired as all heck since we got back and was falling [...]
Posted in History, Non-Fiction, Women on May 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was over at a friend’s place a few months ago and raided her study. I came out with a handful of non-fiction titles but alas this is the only one I’ve read (I may try to squeeze in one more over the next two weeks). I read nonfiction much slower than I read fiction [...]
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Bookstores, History, Non-Fiction, tagged Lewis Buzbee, Yellow-Lighted Bookshop on April 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been wanting to read Lewis Buzbee’s The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop since before it was published. But my old library didn’t seem to have it. And somehow I never got around to buying it. I just read all the posts written by bloggers who had read it jealously. And then when I was going through my [...]
Posted in History, Non-Fiction, Reading Challenges, Women, tagged Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin, Marion Mead on April 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been wanting to read Marion Mead’s Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: writers running wild in the twenties pretty much since it was published. I’m not entirely sure why except that it sounded fun.
I really know very little about American Literature but I figure that’s allowed because I’m not American. I haven’t read a lot [...]
Posted in History, Non-Fiction, Reading Challenges, tagged Children of War, Susan Goodman on January 6, 2008 | No Comments »
It feels like I’ve been reading Susan Goodman’s Children of War forever. It has been a rather long time, since sometime before Christmas. I was reading it only at night before I shut off the light so it was slow going.
Children of War looks at WWII from the memories of those where were children in [...]
Posted in History, Non-Fiction, Women, tagged Bletchley Park, Bletchley People on December 27, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m not going to sugarcoat it - I was disappointed. I’ve had Marion Hill’s Bletchley People on my list since I first realized that many of the people who worked at Bletchley Park in WWII were women. So close to two years. It was part of my pre-Christmas book splurge (let’s just say I don’t [...]
Posted in Canadian, History, Reading Challenges, Women on October 30, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Kailana posted about her November Challenge. You see, November 11 in Canada is Remembrance Day. (Hmm I don’t have a poppy yet…must get one soon.) In theory it is a day of honouring all those that serve in the Canadian military as well as to honour those who served in WWI, WWII, and the [...]
Posted in Canadian, History, Non-Fiction, Reading Challenges on August 15, 2006 | No Comments »
I know that somewhere one of you just fell off your chair. You’re reading that right. I finished a Summer Reading Challenge book. Woohoo! What’s more is that I finished THIS book because it’s been sitting over in the “Currently Reading” section of the side bar (*pokes the sidebar cause it likes it*) [...]
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