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text 2020-07-13 08:10

Blog Tour - The Bridesmaid

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Check out my stop on the blog tour for The Bridesmaid by Vic P. Victory!

The Bridesmaid
by Vic P. Victory
Genre: Adult Romance/Comedy
Release Date: April 2020

Summary:

May I introduce Emma to you?

Emma, early thirties, dependable magnet for mishaps, “screw ups”, and small to medium catastrophes, trusting victim of womanizers, and a newly minted frustrated single. Nachos with cheese sauce, frozen chocolate tarts, family packs of vanilla ice cream, a little too much red wine, and a gigantic serving of self-pity are helping her drown her misery.

When her friend Olga choses Emma to be her bridesmaid amidst her own personal crisis, she would rather burst into flames. After an initial period of stagnation, she begins to accept the task thrust upon her, and fully dedicates herself to project “Wedding”.

If only it wasn't for the bride, who slowly mutates into a self-righteous, megalomaniac, obsessed with perfection and allergic to any well-meant criticism. In other words, a bridezilla. Despite Olga’s unrealistic expectations and unabashed fits of rage, Emma resists the thought of a jumbo-sized Kentucky fried chicken bucket, straightens her 3-buttons-blouse, pulls herself up, has another sip of red wine, and charges into the fight to save a wedding and a friendship.

Purchase link: https://amzn.to/31j6W2H

Author Links:

Instagram: vic_p_victory
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vic-P-Victory-879559825573822/?modal=admin_todo_tour
Website: www.vicpvictory.com
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJTLSo5iJm6_dU5esPt9AJQ (Vic P. Victory)

review 2019-07-09 07:40

More a homage than a history

markk

Steaming to Victory: How Britain's Railways Won the War - Michael Wenn Williams

When Britain went to war in 1939, they did so by rail. For at a time when air travel was enjoyed only by the few and automobiles nowhere nearly as ubiquitous as they would become, railways were the dominant form of long-distance transportation in the country. This was underscored over the next six years, as trains were employed in a range of tasks from evacuating children from London at the start of the war to preparing for the massive D-Day invasion that ended it.

The role Britain’s railways played in the war deserves a history that details their wide range of activities while analyzing the extent of their contribution and describes how they made it possible. Unfortunately, Michael Williams’s book is not that work. While he details in it the many roles the railways played, he does so in a way that is more adulatory than analytical — so much so that a more appropriate subtitle for this book would be “A Celebration of Britain’s Railways in the Second World War,” for that would better capture the tone of his narrative. This is reflected best in his focus on the individual stories of the men and women who worked for the railways during the war, where they coped with straitened circumstances and the dangers of attack. Chapter after chapter contain tales spotlighting the heroism and sacrifice of railway employees, yet there is little effort to connect these episodes to any broader explanation of railway operations or assessment within the context of the overall war effort. This reflects his sources, as apart from a series of oral histories with the now-elderly survivors Williams bases his book on a limited number of previously-published accounts, most notably the self-congratulatory wartime histories put out by the “Big Four” railway companies immediately after the conflict. Expanding his research by consulting the archival records or by incorporating the vast body of literature about British mobilization would have made for a much stronger work that gave readers a more in-depth understanding of the contribution of Britain’s railways to the war effort.

Because of this deficiency, Williams’s book functions as more of an homage than anything else. This is particularly regrettable given the case the author makes within it for a good, thorough study of British railways that pushes past the myths and misconceptions that have accumulated around their role in the war to detail the many roles they played in it. In the end, though, what Williams provides his readers with is not a book that explains “How Britain’s Railways Won the War,” but simply salutes it as something to be assumed.

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text 2019-05-04 12:17

Reading progress update: I've read 634 out of 1160 pages.

Daryl Reads

Some days I would rather hit myself with a brick than read this (oh wait, this book IS a brick). Why do I persevere?

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review 2019-03-08 12:51

The ingredients don't come together for a good read

markk

Spuds, Spam And Eating For Victory: Rationing In The Second World War - Katherine Knight

This is an interesting book but a frustrating read. In it Katherine Knight provides a history of the experience of rationing — the limits imposed on the food people could purchase, their enforcement, and how people sought to cope with them in their preparation of their meals. Beginning with the establishment of the rationing regimen, she examines what rationing was like from the perspective of consumers in different areas and how people coped with rationing in a variety of circumstances.

Such a book captures an important aspect of life in the Second World War, and Knight has done her research to reflect it. Yet much of her labor is spoiled by her writing, which veers between summary, reportage, and memoir. It’s clear that Knight’s personal experience with rationing was a powerful motivation behind writing this book, but too often it intrudes into her narrative as a distraction. It doesn’t help, either, that she lumps in information from sources (such as personal conversations) that are impossible to verify, making the book more impressionistic than it deserves to be. More disciplined writing and better editing would have gone far towards providing readers with the excellent book this subject deserves, yet in the end Knight proves just a little too personally invested in her subject to be the one who writes it.

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review 2019-01-12 06:55

Bad

Kitty's Book Spot!

How to Seduce a Bad Boy - Traci Douglass

Melody has always been in love with her brother's best friend. When he finally comes home, she has the chance to set her plan in motion. She is determined to have her chance with him.

Adam has seen too much to believe in happily ever after. He also has a healthy fear of what his best friend will do to him if he touches his sister. Denying his feelings for her at this point would be foolish, however.

Such a cute story with a lot of heat. I found the couple just charming. Reading about their story was easy. Each page turned faster than I remembered and before I knew it - I was done. I give this book a 4/5 Kitty's Paws UP!

***This ARC copy was given by Netgalley and its publishers, in exchange for an honest review.

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