This is a longer than usual book review. It is also unusual for its content. This review is more about the relevance of the story for what we need to know about our own ancestors than it is about the story itself. Let me explain: Forty-five years ago, two elderly women in the church whereContinue reading “Book Review: The Settlers”
Author Archives: Sandra Yeaman
IWSG-October
Here we are at the first Wednesday of the Month where many of us bloggers write about our hopes and fears in the Insecure Writer’s Support Group, founded by Alex J. Cavanaugh. Please visit either site for more info and a list of participating bloggers, to join, or offer encouragement. This month’s question is “WhenContinue reading “IWSG-October”
Book Review: X
I’ve been a fan of Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone series since I first read K is for Killer in the early 1990s and discovered there were ten books written before it for me to read. I went back and read them all in order and have been grabbing the new ones as soon as they are published.Continue reading “Book Review: X”
Book Review: A Fireproof Home for the Bride
I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed reading a book more than I enjoyed reading Amy Scheibe’s A Fireproof Home for the Bride. The story is fiction so it didn’t happen, but, as is always the case with good storytelling, it could have happened. I know because I was there at the time of the story—1958—inContinue reading “Book Review: A Fireproof Home for the Bride”
Guardian Angel III
“Ancient Guardian Angel Sculpture” (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by Vicon Eco Systems Construction At the end of my first semester at California State University, I traveled back to Minnesota for the summer. I had hoped to find either a summer job or a volunteer opportunity, but by the time I arrived, car troubles had drained my financial resources, andContinue reading “Guardian Angel III”
Guardian Angel II
“angel” (CC BY 2.0) by maphler The summer following my first semester at California State University at San Francisco proved to be a real test for my guardian angel. I had no classes in the summer so I set off for Minnesota, to spend the summer with family and relax before returning in the fall. I hopedContinue reading “Guardian Angel II”
Book Review: China to Me: A Partial Biography
Emily Hahn’s China to Me: A Partial Biography is precisely the type of memoir I had hoped to write 40 years later about my own life. Like Hahn, I set out to live and work in a foreign country. Hahn chose China in the middle of turbulent times when Japan was asserting control over muchContinue reading “Book Review: China to Me: A Partial Biography”
Guardian Angel I
Great were the results of my mother’s prayers. She always got what she prayed for, or so we kids thought. When I complained that prayers didn’t work, Mom insisted that, while God answers all prayers, his answers aren’t always what we want. And then she would remind me of the nights she sat on myContinue reading “Guardian Angel I”
Book Review: The Bonfire of the Vanities
Because of the length of Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities, I was willing to read the first 75 pages to get to the heart of the story. After all, Wolfe writes very well. When I reached the inciting incident, what the Amazon summary calls “a freak accident in the Bronx,” I thought I wasContinue reading “Book Review: The Bonfire of the Vanities”
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