I Picked Up This Book Because: Tonight Show book club read The Characters: Kate Gleeson: Peter Stanhope: Francis, Lena, Sara, Natalie Gleeson, Ann and Brian Stanhope, George Stanhope The Story: What a freakin let down. I expected something much more dramatic. A lot happened to these characters ...
This family drama is told in uncomplicated prose and yet is heartfelt and moving. It's a novel about regular people who make mistakes, who may get hurt by and hurt other people as well, however unintentionally. Some characters you initially sympathize with may seem off-putting later, or the other wa...
The famous story of Mary Mallon, aka Typhoid Mary, has captured our attention over the past century. Some of the most intriguing questions that her story conjures up are: Did Mary realize that she was spreading this deadly disease as those around her kept succumbing to it, even though she herself n...
Well that was depressing. Realistic I imagine but depressing. It did not go where i was expecting or hoping. I'm not sure what I got out of this book except a renewed sense that people are retarted and have ab additive personalities?Maybe i was meant to take peice in the thought that no matter how m...
** I won this as a Giveaway on Goodreads**Mary Mallon came to the America looking for a better life. What she got instead was a life-time of being sought after and hidden away from public view.Mary started out her life as a laundress and worked her way up to a cook. A few people got sick, even fewer...
"Fever" is the story of "Typhoid Mary" Mallon, who is believed to be one of the first asymptomatic carriers of what was, at the turn of the 20th Century, a deadly disease.The story begins with the death of a two-year-old child; Mary cooks for the family. All told, 23 people in families for whom Mary...
Thank goodness I did not waste good money on this book by buying it!Only 20 pages in and I am ready to abandon this book. I have read textbooks that are more interesting and written better. Here are two examples of the bad writing/editing (hardback edition):1. page 9 "When babies were born everyone ...
I actually enjoyed listening to this. It was OK, but......This is one of those books definitely improved by its narration, very well done by Sile Bermingham! Great Irish brogue, and the different women all sound unique. Still, when you look at the book as a whole, you are left rather flat. What does...
The book started off pretty well, and the idea of seeing Typhoid Mary's everyday life, beyond just being able to spread disease, sounded interesting. Unfortunately, the book didn't really live up to my expectations, though I really tried to give it a chance.I think the biggest problem was that it d...
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