B Reviews / Book Reviewsautobiography / epistolary / family relationships / fathers and daughters / non-fiction / War / Military / World War II2 Comments
By the time Loretto discovered the cache of WWII letters, her father had been dead almost 50 years. She’d accepted she would never know him. All that changed when she decided to type his 500+ letters for her siblings. With each letter she heard her father’s voice. With each place ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsautobiography / entertainment journalism / faith / First-Person / non-fiction / SouthernComments Off on REVIEW: I Ain’t Doin’ It: Unfiltered Thoughts From a Sarcastic Southern Sweetheart by Heather Land
Social media comedian Heather Land uses her trademark sassy, laugh-out-loud humor to remind us of the many ways that real life can be really funny. Heather Land has something to say about almost everything in life—the unbelievable, inconceivable, and downright frustrating—and why she “ain’t doin’ it.” In her first book, ... more >
B Reviews Category / Book Reviewsautobiography / First-Person / non-fiction / self-help1 Comments
An introvert spends a year trying to live like an extrovert with hilarious results and advice for readers along the way. What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsautobiography / Doctor / medicine / non-fiction / travelComments Off on REVIEW: Holiday SOS by Ben MacFarlane
Who do you call if it all goes wrong on holiday? Meet Doctor Ben MacFarlane – a very modern flying doctor. His job is get on a plane and bring patients home after holiday disasters, gap year crises, embarrassing incidents on business trips and all the other things that can ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsanimals / autobiography / cats / dogs / First-Person / horses / non-fiction / veterinarianComments Off on REVIEW: Drinking from the Trough by Mary E. Carlson, DVM
Mary Carlson didn’t start out to become a veterinarian, let alone the owner and caretaker of cats (many), dogs (two, both huskies), and horses (some with manners, some without) in Colorado. She was a suburban Chicago girl; all she knew of the American West came from the stories her uncle, ... more >
A Review Category / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAgent/Spies/Undercover / autobiography / England / France / London / non-fiction / secret agent / World War II5 Comments
‘My mother thought I was working for the Ministry of Ag. and Fish.’ So begins Noreen Riols’ compelling memoir of her time as a member of Churchill’s ‘secret army’, the Special Operations Executive. It was 1943, just before her eighteenth birthday, Noreen received her call-up papers, and was faced with ... more >